Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers

A project in Manchester, United Kingdom by Andrew Hewson & Rob Hewson
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From Paradroid to Pinball Dreams. Andrew Hewson shares experiences & insights from his pioneering videogames career in this new book.
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Dates: Oct 21st -> Nov 20th (31 days)
Project By: Andrew Hewson & Rob Hewson
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Latest News

Raffaele Cecco signed rewards for the final day!

November 18th - via: kickstarter.com
It's been a wonderful ride but the last full day for the campaign now lies before us. We are absolutely delighted to confirm that stretch goal number one has been achieved, meaning the Graftgold / Hewson video interview with Steve Turner and Andrew... (Read More)

WE DID IT! Project now fully FUNDED!

November 17th - via: kickstarter.com
At around midnight (GMT) last night a flurry of activity on the Kickstarter campaign saw us sail across the finish and reach the campaign goal. Thanks to the remarkable efforts of every one of you, this book is now going to be a reality! We couldn't... (Read More)

Olof Gustafsson & Jonathan Dunn Confirmed

November 16th - via: kickstarter.com
3 days to go and 95% fundedThere are now just 3 days left to run in the campaign and at 95% funded we are so close to making this project happen! Who knows, we might even be able to go for some of those stretch goals. However, we have no intentions... (Read More)

Stretch Goals are LIVE!

November 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to all of you, we are now at 89% funded with just 5 days remaining. We're not home and dry yet, but since we are so close to making this project a reality we wanted to share our plans in the event that we go that little bit further. Here are... (Read More)

One-week countdown & Andrew's thoughts so far

November 12th - via: kickstarter.com
We now have just one week remaining to make the book happen, so we wanted to start with a personal message from Andrew which outlines some of his thoughts on the campaign so far and surrounding events. Personal Message from AndrewI am delighted to... (Read More)

Industry veteran launches guide book for aspiring game pioneers on Kickstarter

November 11th - via: vg247.com
Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers is the new book from industry veteran Andrew Hewson, which looks to give advice to any developer or team looking to achieve success in the market. He is also founder of publisher Hewson Consultants and 21st Century Entertainment, the same company that gave DICE its first break with Pinball Dreams. (Read More)

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE to cover Uridium for the soundtrack

November 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Weekend Update: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE confirmed for Soundtrack AlbumWe are delighted to confirm that Commodore 64 revival band PRESS PLAY ON TAPE will be recording a cover of Steve Turner's brilliant Uridium music for the Exclusive Soundtrack Album... (Read More)

Meet Steve Turner & Andrew Hewson, more games added.

November 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Mid-week Update - Meet Steve Turner & Andrew HewsonWe've passed the half way point of the campaign now but we've got lots of great rewards and announcements still to come. This week we have added a whole host of signed games for the collectors... (Read More)

T-shirts now available, closing in on 60% funded!

November 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Weekend UpdateIt's been a great week for the campaign, as we sailed past the 50% funded milestone on Thursday - 10 days after launch and are now closing in on the next milestone of 60%! Once again we'd like to thank you all for your kind support,... (Read More)

Raffaele Cecco & Dominic Robinson Confirmed!

October 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Big Mid-week Update!We've got a big update with some brilliant news for you today, so let's get straight to it! More Legendary Developers Confirmed We've been working on this for a while and we are extremely excited to confirm that legendary... (Read More)

New Contributor Confirmed – Gari Biasillo!

October 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello, We are delighted to announce that we have confirmed another new contributor for the book – Gari Biasillo. Gary developed Slayer, Steel and Future Basketball for Hewson and also composed the music for a number of other Hewson games.  We... (Read More)

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

October 26th - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)

Ultra-Rare Signed Magazine Added

October 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello, We are working hard to bring as many great rewards to the campaign over the coming weeks as possible and since we've got that Friday feeling, we thought we'd begin by adding an ultra-rare collectors item as a top reward. We've got prime... (Read More)

Hints & Tips, in the beginning.

October 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello beloved backers. I thought I would take a break from the usual "what's new" style updates to talk in a little more depth about who we are and what this project means to us, or more specifically, to me. Dad started Hewson Consultants almost by... (Read More)

Steve Turner working on the Digital Soundtrack

October 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello, As mentioned in Update 1 the legend that is Steve Turner (Avalon, Dragontorc, Ranarama, Quazatron) in busy working on brand new versions of his Avalon and Ranarama tracks for our exclusive DIGITAL SOUNDTRACK ALBUM reward. Steve kindly took... (Read More)

Nebulus LIVE on Twitch at 1pm!

October 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello,Just a quick update to tell you that our friends at UKGN will play live-streaming a play through of Hewson's classic titles Nebulus at 1pm: http://www.twitch.tv/ukgamingnetwork Nebulus (aka Tower Toppler) play through is being live streamed on... (Read More)

DICE & the Pinball games - New Contributors Confirmed!

October 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Hello! It's a Pinball themed update tonight because we can confirm three brilliant new contributors to the book. The legendary Co-Founders of DICE Andreas Axelsson and Fredrik Liljegren are on board along with Barry Simpson - Software Manager at... (Read More)

25% Funded on Day 2 - Thank You!!!

October 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Wow, it's been quite a ride already! Day 2 and we are already 1/4 of the way there thanks to all you lovely people. We are so grateful for all the comments, messages, emails, forum posts and Tweets of support. Thank you all for taking us to this... (Read More)

DIGITAL + PHYSICAL BUNDLES

October 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Good morning! Just a quick update regarding new reward tiers which bundle the Digital Book and the Physical Book together for you. Special thanks to Mousey over at the worldorspectrum.org forums for the suggestion... (Read More)

Steve Turner digital soundtrack update

October 21st - via: kickstarter.com
So this is it, our first update of many! First and foremost we would like to say how grateful and humbled we are by the support shown on day one so far. It almost sounds like a cliché to start the first update with a sentence like that, but when... (Read More)

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