Over the years Jason Darby has been involved in writing numerous articles for some of the UK's leading print press such as PC Format and Retro Gamer, he has also written for international magazines such as Australian PC Magazine.
Before I started writing books I wrote articles on how to make games on Internet forums, I then progressed onto writing articles for gaming magazines. Writing articles allowed me to show evidence of my writing skills to Charles River Media and they allowed me to write my first book on video game creation (Make Amazing Games in Minutes). I continued to write a number of articles over the subsequent years and due to book and work commitments the last one was in 2007. Having been made redundant in the games industry for a short while in 2024 I decided to get back into writing articles as something to do (I was a bit bored), and in July 2024 my first magazine feature was released in 17 years, wow does time fly!
Amiga Addict
July 2024
How the Amiga revolutionised the telling of war stories. Wrote a 6 page article on the amiga and what amazing games it had for war-gamers.
APC Magazine
Bauer Media Group
May 2007
Game creation article for an Australian PC Magazine (APC). Unfortunately they got my name wrong in the article :)
PC Plus
Future Publishing
March 12, 2007
Whilst working on my second book I was given the opportunity to write an article for PC Plus magazine. This ended up being a 3 page game making article.
Retro Gamer
Live Publishing
November 23, 2004
This was my second article for Retro Gamer and was all about game making tools on old school computers such as the Spectrum and Amiga computers. The article detailed programs such as AMOS, STOS, GAC and PAW.
PC Format
Future Publishing
March 25, 2004
This article showed the user how to make their own bat and ball type of game, one that's been extremely popular as a tutorial for the Games Factory and Fusion over the years. This was part of a three magazine issue deal agreed with Future Publishing.
PC How To
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February 25, 2004
1 page article on how to make your very own Windows screen saver.
Retro Gamer - Issue 2
Live Publishing
February 25, 2004
The magazine were kind enough to give me a lot of page space to show the user how to make their very own computer game.
PC Answers
Future Publishing
December 16, 2003
An article on how to build your own screensavers.
Game Maker Magazine
Future Publishing
September 18, 2003
I was lucky to get the chance to write an article for the very first issue of "The Game Maker" magazine. Unfortunately Future Publishing decided that the magazine was not viable in this form and began to include future issues into PC Format as a supplement. After a few more issues the magazine was scrubbed. The article was about creating a scrolling snowboarding game.
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