I'm John King and this is my
MA Games Design development journal.
This
blog will show the evolution of the major theme for my project work,
focusing on the research and experimentation which occurs during this
process.
I'll also be using it as a dumping ground for indirectly
related projects, which will appear in the "Other Pages" section.

Just in case you're wondering, the visual theme takes inspiration from the old
Sinclair ZX81 upon which I wrote my first computer games (30 years ago — ouch!) The computer's case was designed by a fella called
Rick Dickinson, and features black plastic with embossed logos, rounded white boxes and high-contrast black/red/grey lettering.

The title of the blog also derives from that same period. In addition to referencing popular
2000 AD comic character
Strontium Dog,
the name was selected to invoke the kind of "
Edge of Darkness" sci-fi
nuclear-conspiracy imagery where you can feel that something sinister is
glowing green around the corner.