Enjoy your read, and I wish you a productive new year!
This issue brings you successful and award-winning game releases, improved model packs, a mini-competition and video challenge, amongst the many other features this month. Moving swiftly into 2008, we have a new-look FPS Creator section to cover both versions of the product, and videos that play directly from the newsletter - no need to switch back and forth to YouTube any longer. Make sure you create good documentation, and a good understanding of the purpose of playing, or risk losing a large percentage of your players in the first few minutes of gameplay! Don't judge everyone by your own standards you will have played your own game to within an inch of your keyboard's digital life, and will know every last pixel of the playing area. The moral of this festive season for budding games-writers is this always assume somebody playing your creation has never played a computer game before. In a strange turn of events, that's exactly how you unlock the advanced features of the latest mobile phones and GPS systems today. Children of the eighties - like myself - are best tasked with working out how it all hangs together, as we are familiar with the up-up-left-up-right combo to unlock a devastating blow to our computerised opponents in games like Virtua Fighter. It seems that it is taken for granted that we all understand the basic concepts of every gadget known to man, and it's only the latest addition to the arsenal of gimmicks that we need to be made familiar with. With the increasing number of functions, buttons and features comes an increasingly more compact instruction manual. My cordless drill with adjustable torque and keyless chuck was easy enough the problems always arise with the ever-shrinking gadgetry and hi-tech entertainment. For me, a lot of time was spent figuring out just how everything worked. With any luck, Santa will have brought you everything you wished for, you will have taken it easy with the festive dinner and chocolates, and won't have had chance to break any new year's resolutions.yet.