Back in June one of the Darkwind players, Groovelle, collated a bunch of questions from the players and we did an interview. I was kinda waiting for him to format/edit/sanitise/legalise it but he appears to have disappeared for a while, so I figured I’d edit it myself. So here it is…. the text is all [...]

There has been a very encouraging upswing in creative contributions from Darkwind players recently. Two or three people have been producing really nice new racetracks and wilderness maps, and a particularly well written fiction set in 2060′s Evan is underway. When it’s ready, I’d like to add this fiction to the ‘official’ stories, which currently [...]

Here’s a poster my friend Brian put together with my encouragement last year. There’s some subtle and somewhat biting ideas behind this about post-apocalyptic neo-communism, or something. But I can’t remember what they were.. must be the whiskey. We had a laugh making it anyway. In case you don’t know, the Evan Reds are a [...]

Here’s a big, wide-ranging (but mostly Darkwind-related) interview with me just published on Rock Paper Shotgun.. thanks to Nicholas for making the contact: The MMOnitor: Darkwind – War on Wheels

Darkwind: Scavenger is now live and available to all subscribers! In case you have been living in Vault 101 and don’t know what Scavenger is all about, here’s a quick run-down: 1. Subscribers can create a Scavenger gang in addition to their regular gang. You switch between the two from your ‘My Gang’ page. You [...]

Darkwind: Scavenger will be a new (optional) way of playing Darkwind. This will operate as a ‘hardcore’ mode as well as operating as a kind of ‘test server’ for new ideas. THE BASICS Players can run both a normal gang and scavenger gang. There will be an option on the website to switch from controlling [...]

An impressively in-depth review of Darkwind was just written up by one of the admins at Video Game Geek: http://videogamegeek.com/article/7010722

This has to go down as one of the ‘good moments’ in my Darkwind odyssey.. Here’s the background: A few weeks ago, after much discussion, the Rules Council (RC) and I decided to downgrade the effectiveness of the ‘sniper’ specialism for heavy weapons. This was an attempt to rebalance the over-powerful car cannon and similar [...]

I finally got around to implementing bullethole decals that are blended into the vehicle skins in Darkwind whenever they are hit. The code is just a slight rework of that already used for custom decals; the major thing holding me up on this one was the problem of how to know where in the vehicle’s [...]