Hi all!

Yes, it's a Matazone update at a time other than Halloween!

In this email:

* Fragments of Him (game link)
* The designing and writing of Fragments of Him
* Matazone Games blog
* Follow Mata on Twitter
* Webcomic!
* End notes

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--Fragments of Him (game link)--

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Aceria620/fragments-of-him

Instructions: you'll need to install Unity Webplayer to play the game. Use the WASD keys to move, click on objects highlighted in yellow to remove them. Older computers might have some trouble with the framerate - try going for the optimised version or using the pause menu to turn off the fancier screen effects.

A few weeks ago I created a game called Fragments of Him with some friends from SassyBot Studio ( http://sassybot.com/ ). It's a narrative based interactive experience and takes about 10-20 minutes to play through.

'Game' isn't perhaps the right word for it, but until we get a better word, that's the one we're going with!

Fragments of Him tells the story of a man who loses his partner in an accident and tries to come to terms with this by removing everything from his life that reminds him of his loved one.

As you can probably tell from that description, the game is not a comedy, but it has had some very powerful reactions from many players. I hope you like it!

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--The designing and writing of Fragments of Him--

What did I do on this game? Well, I wrote, performed, and designed it. I worked with an artist (and briefly his partner) who created the visuals of the game, and a programmer who made it all work. In essence everything you see on screen wasn't done by me, but I did everything that makes it what it is... Sounds confusing? Welcome to the wonderful world of game & narrative design!

If you want to read more about the design of Fragments of Him then read my designer/writer postmortem write up on my new games blog. After we make a game, developers often write a postmortem to analyse and share what they did, and highlight what went wrong too. Waring: contains spoilers, so please play the game first! If you're interested, you can read it here:

http://games.matazone.co.uk/?p=20

I will be updating the blog with new projects when they start emerging. Hopefully it will be an interesting archive in a few years! For now, you can find some links to the coverage that the game has been getting:

http://games.matazone.co.uk/

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--Follow Mata on Twitter--

I've also finally succumbed and joined Twitter. If you want to keep track of news about Fragments of Him and other Matazone things (my webcomic, new animations, games development, paintings, interviews, press coverage, etc.) then you can follow me on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/MataHaggis

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--Webcomic!--

Trouble Down Pit has been running twice a week for over six years now. I hope you're reading, but if not then now is a great time to dive in. This week is promoting Fragments of Him, but we'll be back to normal strips next week, and there is still the archive of hundreds of previous strips to read through!

http://comic.matazone.co.uk

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--End notes--

Phew! So, that's a whole bunch of things. It's been an exciting time recently with lots of ups and a few downs too. Completely off on a tangent is that I am booked to have an exhibition of my oil paintings at the end of this year too. There is a lot going on in my world at the moment! I'm planning on starting a blog for my paintings too, so I'll let you know when that's online as well.

If you don't hear about that blog, then I'll be in touch in October for the usual dose of horror for the Halloween special!

Of course, please pass on these links to any of your friends who you think will be interested via Facebook, Twitter, and whatever other things you may use :)

See you next time, I hope you're all having fun too!

Mata