Ooh, apparently I’m still alive!

Quite out of the blue I came across this article in the Guardian this morning.

It’s really odd when you accidentally stumble upon yourself in the newspapers. It’s happened to me a few times. Maybe the journalist tried to get in touch with me (Edit: it turns out he did), but I’ve had my head down, too busy being a socially awkward game dev to go alongside his socially awkward game journo. Pity, we could have been socially awkward together!

I don’t have Netflix and I’m a cultural numbskull, so I know nothing about it. Has anyone seen Black Mirror? I gather Peter Capaldi played the journo, but I’m not sure if anyone played ‘me’.

I have a lot of (somewhat fuzzy and confused) memories about game mags in the 1990’s, and the lovely people who worked for them. I’m fairly sure I was interviewed by PC Zone, and definitely by PC Gamer. I have a fondness for the Guardian, too, which I ineptly wrote a few science columns for. Happy times! Perplexing, stressful, but fascinating. Maybe I’ll tell you about the Olden Days sometime. I think I probably lived through a bunch of historic stuff that I was only dimly aware of.

Meanwhile, I promise I’ll try not to kill anyone.