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Five and a half years ago
Before long it became clear that there was only so much design to be done, and a finite number of ways to re-design the Teletext logo when you're only working with eight colours. After creating the weekly cartoon strip Turner The Worm, I'd already fulfilled two ambitions: now it was the time for the third. IT IS BORN I was given the task of creating and writing a new video games section. I pretended to be shocked. But, of course, it was exactly what I'd wanted. The first task was the name. As the launch date moved ever closer, the best from a large list of awful names was placed on our index page, with the view that it would be changed before launch. It never was, and so Digitiser it's been ever since. EXPERIMENTAL Digitiser's first year on air was pretty much an experimental one, but we succeeded in establishing ourselves within the UK games industry. Early Digitiser features eschewed the standard games magazine practice of covering video games, and instead focused on our mascot, The Man. Hopefully the current incarnation of Digitiser has its irrelevance and relevance carefully balanced. Other notable happenings during that first year included a shift from a "marks out of five" rating system, to percentages. As Digitiser's notoriety grew, so too did our confidence. We became fearless in our reviewing, pointing out fatal flaws in a game where other mags were unable to do so. One boss of a major development firm has described Digitiser as, "terrifying, because it's so brutally honest." WHAT NEXT? If the powers that be let us remain for another five years - and providing we don't get seduced by the power of The Dark Side - we hope we'll have just as many tales to tell for our tenth anniversary. Do you see? Check out our features archive   |
