Author Archives: Harry

I’ve recently been playing with In-App Purchase code, for my little indie game side project which will be finished one day, probably.  I wanted to test it, to make sure I knew how it worked, without having to submit my … Continue reading →

What we’re doing We are in the process of setting up a new European social, mobile and console games business.  The company will be a subsidiary of a well-established Far Eastern game publisher. We will be working with the company’s … Continue reading →

It’s now twenty years since I’ve been working in the games business.  I was playing games, and writing little ones of my own, for a good 12 years before that.  In all that time, I’ve never felt so conflicted about … Continue reading →

This is an article I wrote this week for the Tenshi Consulting blog.  Nicholas Lovell, of Gamesbrief fame, has asked if it can be used there as a guest post, too, so it should be up there shortly. As someone who grew … Continue reading →

I’ve joined forces with Tenshi Consulting, a network of consultants from the video games, entertainment and consulting industries. Tenshi Consulting is a sister company of Tenshi Ventures, which was founded by Ian Baverstock and Jonathan Newth, former founders of game … Continue reading →

MIPBlog asked me to write an article on connected devices – published today. Thanks to Dominic Mason and James Martin for asking me! Harry Holmwood: Beware geeks bearing smartphones… the death of commercial TV? For consultant Holmwood, retaining viewers’ attention … Continue reading →

Just a quick post to say how fantastic POE hosting are, and to thank Patrick@POE for his superb support. I wanted to play with the latest version of Joomla with a view to evaluating it for a new project. My … Continue reading →

Bookkeeping is never the most fascinating topic, but I thought I’d jot down that I’ve just started using Kashflow accounting software to replace the aging copy of Quickbooks I’ve been using for the last few years. It’s a Software As … Continue reading →

As well as helping other companies out, I’m working on a new project project of my own. I’m getting quite excited about it. It’s at a very experimental stage right now, and far too early to say anything about, other … Continue reading →

If you’ve just visited this site and it looks terrible, things don’t work, or there are spelling mistakes – please excuse me, I have someone messing around with WordPress themes at the moment to see if they can pretty things … Continue reading →