The Shindig is a month old now, which means it only has two months left to go. Two months might sound like a long time, but trust me, it’s totally not. In this go-go-go modern world of ours, with its internets and automobiles and such, two months goes by like THAT. So if you’ve been sitting around, hemming and hawing, wondering whether or not to enter The Shinding, then lemme give you some advice: stop being such a pussy and enter already. It’s not like there’s any good reason not to enter (the T&Cs are all standard legalese, we swear), and the more time you spend equivocating, the less time you’ll have to develop an awesome money-winning videogame. So c’mon and sign-up, damn it!

Oh, and speaking of awesome (potentially) money-winning videogames, here’s a video of MonoRAIL’s Shindig entry – an impressive looking “quantum-electrodynamical-shmup” called Go Beryllium!

Some of you might recognise monoRAIL (AKA Connor O’Kane) as the developer of Harpooned – a thought provoking shooter where the goal is to “research” cetaceans in the same way that the Japanese have been “researching” them for centuries: i.e. by killing them with harpoons. Unlike a lot of persuasive games, this one is actually a lot of fun in a disturbing sort of way, so if you haven’t already, then go check it out.

In other news, I’m in Japan on holidays. Today, I went to a park and fed a deer some biscuits. Later, we played Mario Kart. He won.