Sky Diving with North London Skydiving @ Cambridgeshire

Steve Peter’s ‘The Chimp Paradox’

From DNAPeople from Steve Peter’s ‘The Chimp Paradox’.

In The Chimp Paradox, Peters argues there are three elements to the psychological mind. He labels these the ‘Chimp’, the ‘Human’ and the ‘Computer’. Peter’s model is a tool for understanding and managing the functioning of the mind. The model is not a hypothesis nor strict scientific fact but based on the neuroscience of the brain. The model sees the brain as being divided into three teams:

The first team is you, the Human. You are a conscious thinking analyzing being that works with facts and truth and then makes deductions using logical thinking.

The second team is the Chimp, an independent thinking brain that is not under your control. It works with feelings and impressions and then puts the ‘information’ together using emotional thinking.

The third team is the Computer. This is really a brain that is at the disposal of the Human and Chimp to put information into for reference. It acts as a memory and can also act as an automatic thinking and acting machine that is programmed to take over if the Chimp or Human is asleep or if they allow it to run ahead of them with preformed decisions and beliefs that it can act with.

"Learn ways to control your Chimp to train the brain to manage surges of emotion"

Realize you can’t bully your Chimp, you have to nurture it. Meet the needs of your Chimp first and it will be in a position where you can then talk to it rationally and it will listen. How? Allow it to have its say, in a safe environment, for as long as it takes (typically about 10 minutes), without interruption. Relax, go with the flow and let it out, however irrational.

From Chimp Management

Hellblade Development Diary 13: Creating the Story

Hellblade Development Diary 13: Creating the Story

'Project Setsuna' by Square Enix 2016

Article link from Forbes.

Develop Awards 2015: 14-16 July 2015

Develop Awards 2015: Tribute to Satoru Iwata

Develop Awards 2015: Two wins for Dontnod Entertainment 

Dontnod takes home both New IP and Use of Narrative prices for Life is Strange. Congratulations guys and nice meeting you at the Develop Awards.

Games that do mental health right

‘Hellblade’ Reveals The Game’s True Antagonist: Mental Illness

‘Hellblade’ Reveals The Game’s True Antagonist: Mental Illness

Wired: How 'Hellblade' explores real-life mental health issues.

Hellblade Development Diary 11: First Playable demo

Disney Infinity 3.0 Trailer

Disney: 3D Printing With Fabric

Physic Simulations

My Physics Lab contains a bunch of useful reference for small contained physics simulation.

Disney wants to help developers make games more interactive

DmC: Definitive Edition: Vergil's Bloody Palace

Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (2.0 Edition)

Yondu Spotlight

Green Goblin Spotlight

Ronan Spotlight

DmC: Definitive Edition is coming to PS4 in March 2015.

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/12/15/dmc-definitive-edition-coming-ps4-march-2015/

DmC: Definitive Edition does what is says in its name. It delivers the definitive DmC experience. We’ve revisited DmC: Devil May Cry and improved, optimised and added to the game. When creating the original DmC there were improvements that we wanted to make, but never got the chance to. In DmC Definitive Edition we have made those improvements. 

10 Behaviors That Could Kill Your Career (by Jack Welch)

I read this good article on LinkedIn Pulse written by Jack Welch. The 10 career killer are behaviours that people conciously would not do but I'm blogging about it because you'll be surprise how predominant these behaviours are. So if you do spot these behaviours within yourself, try changing it before they change you...

• Misfiring on performance or values — Overcommitting and under-delivering.

• Resistance to change — Failing to embrace new ideas.

• Being a Problem Identifier vs a Problem Solver.

• Winning over your boss but not your business peer group.

• Always worrying about your next career move versus focusing on the present.

• Running for office – it’s totally transparent to everyone but you!

• Self-importance — exhibiting a humorless, rigid attitude.

• Lacking the courage and conviction to push back on the system.

• Forgetting to develop your own succession plan for when you get promoted.

• Complacency — you’ve stopped growing.

Nostalgia Overload

Sweet dreams were made of these~

DmC DLC: Vergil Downfall

Vergil Downfall is what I worked on at the end of DmC development.

Devil May Cry: Gamescom 2011 Videos

Some words from Ninja Theory & Capcom on the latest DmC trailer that hit Gamescom 2011.



With the release of the new gameplay trailer as well. Combat trailer at that. Woot~



Post-live Q&A session with Ninja Theory and Capcom...

Devil May Cry: Gamescom 2011 - Cool images.

At Gamecom this year, Ninja Theory released some pretty cool images of Dante for the new DmC 5 game that I am working on. Check him out~