Last Friday, Straandlooper were invited to present at the INGAGE – INnovation, GAminG, Education – Dev Day organised by the good people at the Digital Circle. The event served to highlight the work undertaken by the students in the ‘l33t Creations’ club as well as highlighting some work being done by creatives in the games industry in Northern Ireland.
Suffice to say, Kevin Beimers, the mind, the man, the myth, jumped at the chance to share with people his love of gaming. And it also served as a great opportunity to show off some of the work that has been keeping him busy for the last 6 months. Kevin, gave a very informative talk on story-telling in gaming, citing many examples of good and bad storytelling that he has encountered over the years. My paticular favourite was the use of a cat, some masking tape and a sachet of maple syrup in a game in order to fashion yourself a disguise to dupe a moped salesperson. That almsot sounds as contrived as some of the puzzles in the Hector ‘We Negotiate with Terrorists’ iApp. Just joshing. Our puzzles are much more contrived than that.
Kevin seized the opportunity of having a captive audience and unleashed the Hector ‘Badge of Carnage’ Trailer on an unsuspected crowd at the end of his presentation. To view the trailer yourself, you can click here. The feedback was very positive and Kevin even hung around after the event to showcase a working prototype of the game to a few lucky punters. Now that Kevin has a taste for this sort of event it is only a matter of time before he is strutting his stuff in an auditorium near you, so watch this space.
Thanks to the Digital Circle for organising the vent and thanks to Matt Johnston for the photos.
The lovely people at YouTube have finally given in to our constant badgering and I am proud to announce that Detective Inspector Hector now has his own channel. The turd that I posted to them last week must have been the final straw and they caved.
Visit The Hector Files YouTube Channel to view Hector in action and also see the excluisve preview trailer of the Badge of Carnage iApp.
Yes folks, the moment you have been waiting so patiently for has finally arrived….no, sorry, we don’t have a luanch date for the game yet, but rather we have the first exclusive preview trailer of the Hector iApp – ‘We Negotiate with Terrorists’. I won’t sully your experience with more substandard chat, so enjoy, and feel free to tell us what you think about it.
One of the most interesting characters in the upcoming point and click adventure iApp ‘Hector: Fat Arse of the Law – We Negotiate with Terrorists’ is the proprietor of the hub of the Clapper’s Wreake porn industry – Filthy Rich.
Filthy Rich runs the ‘Exotico’ Porn Shop in the crime capital of Britain, Clappers Wreake – home of Dectective Inspector Hector, otherwise known as the Fat Arse of the Law – part cop, part lush, all gristle. In the ‘Badge of Carnage’ series of point and click iApps Hector must pit his wits against the seething crime ridden cesspool that is his home town. Filthy Rich is just one of the many miscreants that Hector must deal with if he is to help his town and make it back to the ‘Broken Arms’ in time for the lunch special.
Filthy Rich is of questionable heritage, with not a lot known about his origins, but what is clearly evident is his success at peddling muck to the army of lecherous depraved perverts that call Clappers Wreake home. That and his penchant for a burger or two. Filthy Rich is indeed a man of quite astounding girth. Well, it makes sense for a man in the porn industry! Rarely seen out from behind his counter, Rich runs a tight ship at the Exotico, stocking a wealth of DVDs, Videos, Magazines, lubricants and various other smutty accoutrements for the discerning palm jockey. He even stocks a rare collection of Police/Crime Parody Porn, including ‘Inspect-her Gadget’ and other classics of the genre.
To find out more about Filithy Rich and Hector you will have to wait for the launch of the second most anticpiated iApp of 2009, being launched sometime in 2010 (all being well) – ‘Hector: Fat Arse of the Law – We Negotiate with Terrorists’ – available in the App Store soon. But why not head on over to www.thehectorfiles.com to find out more about the game and Hector now.
It’s time for that irregualr bastion of the Hector Files Blog – the meet a member of the Clappers Wreake community post. This time it is Clappers Wreake’s answer to Bob Dylan, well, actually it more like their answer to Glenn Medeiros, it’s Busker McCusker.
Busker McCusker is another member of the Clapper’s Wreake fraternity who makes a star turn in the upcoming Hector: Fat Arse of the Law point and click adventure iApp ‘We Negotiate with Terrorists’. McCusker, as his name implies, is a Busker, and not a very good one at that. He lurks around the local Park in amoungst the rest of the dregs of society that like to frequent this much maligned public amenity. His instrument of choice is the bass drum, and he likes nothing more than spending his days bashing away with his stick. Ahem. He is quite useful with the bass drum however, beating out any number of hits ranging from James Brown to more contempary numbers such as Cheryl Cole’s ‘Fight for this Love’ . But, as with everyone in Clappers Wreake Busker has a more sinister side which Hector must uncover in order to save the town from the Terrorist threat in the Badge of Carnage trilogy of games. Keep checking back here for more updates about when you might be able to get your greasy little mits on the game.
