Andy Beaumont

Just got this…

date: 5/10/2005
name: cat.mpeg
email: fuckyouall@eviltwin.cock

message: this is the wurst commercial ever you fuckers get a life stupid fockers a hope your next life will be a cat wois is a this stupid commercial. your english brains a realy fucked up ass fockers ps:fuck your mother

I’m off to Barcelona this week to talk (along with two of the other Preloaded people) at OFFF about the Preloaded process of making nice things. Come over and say hi if you see me there.

Got a nice surprise when I went to vote this evening and discovered that my local Lib Dem candidate is an old mate from Leeds. Good luck tonight James.

Our copy of the Creative Review Annual arrived today complete with the Spooks games in it. Hooray!

Last year our work for Spooks won pretty much everything going. This year it seems incapable of winning anything despite being twice the size and twice as good. The latest award we didn’t win was at FlashForward. Coming up, expect to see it not win a Webby, the first nomination Preloaded have had in there. Also expect to see it not win an NMA effectiveness award despite it being the second most registered for section on the BBC after CelebDAC and therefore the most registered for that doesn’t have it’s own TV show dedicated to the website.

Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend a screening of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie thanks to Preloaded having worked with Nick and Garth before and being involved in some of the online promotional material. So, with possible biases owned up to, I’d just like to say it’s fantastic. The script is sharp and funny, the plot and direction pacey, the performances from the cast excellent. There’s definitely one slating review of it floating around the web at the moment which in my opinion isn’t even worth reading.

We won nothing! This is quite an unusual feeling for us. Oh well, there’s more coming up. We’ve got some nominations at Flash in the Can and hopefully we’ll get a few for Flash Forward too. So what did we lose out on the Bafta to I hear you ask? Well, it was a Flash port of a 25 year old BBC Micro text adventure game. I’ll say no more.

Firstly some slightly late news, we’ve been nominated for an Interactive Bafta for Spooks 3. The ceremony takes place some time in March I think. Also on the awards front, Preloaded has picked up no less than 3 nominations for SXSW. Viral game SinkYaDrink in the Amusement category, the promo we made for Evil Nine’s release Crooked is in the Music category and of course, Spooks 3 is there, this time in Technical Achievement.

Long time no post. Well, it’s because I’ve been busy. We’ve completed the new Spooks games for the BBC - note you can still play all of last years games inside the swanky new interface. You can also get some inside info by checking out the features on the project in both Digit magazine and Computer Arts magazine. The Get Writing project, also for the Beeb, picked up an award from the Royal Television Society who described it as “one of the most inspiring & well planned educational campaigns for many years”.

Never mind that everyone else in the world has already told you about it, go try out Flickr.com - really well thought out picture organising and sharing with loads of great features. You can check out my Flickr pics here.