As a keen World of Warcraft player, and an aficionado of all kinds of other games, I often find it hard to try to get my life organised. It seems so straightforward to spend so much of my time playing games - either online through MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, or more recently through other games. Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time going through the campaign on Empire: Total War, another classic strategy game from the Creative Assembly. It takes you through the 18th Century colonial expansion period - which has meant all sorts of fun! I’m just waiting now for TCA to make a 21st Century game - so you might have something like: Red Diesel Bradford Total War coming your way…

Improbable I know, but I’m quite keen on the idea of how we might create a game that dramatises the many challenges presented by modern life. So it could be all about the perils of getting from A to B in double quick time when you’re trying to get to your temp job, all played out on a strategic map… ridiculous? I don’t know. Look at the huge success of The Sims, for example, which is essentially a game in which you manipulate the lives of perfectly ordinary middle class people who are probably quite a lot like the people actually playing the game.

In all seriousness, what I’m most attracted to are games which explore an element of the historic. So Empire is a great example - you play pitched land and naval battles between the great empires (European and otherwise) of the eighteenth century. I’m about 100 hours in and it’s clearly pretty addictive. Check it out! And don’t forget that by staying in and playing games all the time, you can save on petrol money…at least, sometimes you can!

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