Author: Alan Williamson

Thank you!

21.1km! £730 raised! Over 3500 calories burned between us! On behalf of the Five out of Ten team, and our chosen charities SpecialEffect and Mind, thank you to everyone who sponsored Alan and Marko in the Oxford Half Marathon. Your

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No tricks, just treats – the Five out of Ten Halloween sale

Happy Halloween! This week only, we’re having an spookily great sale: 50% off anything you like, including Year One Reloaded and Escape to Na Pali. That’s just £2.50 / $4 USD an issue! Use the discount code TRICKORTREAT and you’ll

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Take Heart: Five out of Ten #10 is out now!

Issue #10 of Five out of Ten is out, and it’s called Heart. It features writing from Cameron Kunzelman, Christos Reid, Ed Smith, Kaitlin Tremblay, and Alan Williamson. As with all our issues, it’s currently available at the ‘Early Bird’

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Warlocks: an interview with Max Strzelecki, One More Level

The next issue of Five out of Ten is our tenth: it’s called ‘Heart’ and it’s coming soon! While researching a piece called ‘Get Well’ about how people use games for mental and physical healing, Alan spoke to Max Strzelecki, a programmer

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Five out of Ten comes to StoryBundle with Year One: Reloaded!

Two big announcements today: the first is that the latest Video Game StoryBundle is here, featuring Five out of Ten! It includes the Year One pack – that’s our first five issues – and we’ve also included our sixth issue,

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Five out of Ten #9: Time – out this Saturday

“Time spent doing what you love is never wasted”. We’re delighted to announce the release of Five out of Ten #9: Time on Saturday, 9th August 2014. Time features ten outstanding essays from Becky Chambers, Chay Close, Jordan Garland, Joe

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Pitch Jam: Three Great Pitches

The second Pitch Jam is underway, and I’ve previously written advice on how to craft a great pitch. Of course, we’ve all heard the advice “show, don’t tell” – and so I thought it best to reprint some of the

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We need your pet pictures

In the next issue of Five out of Ten, we're running a feature on pets in games – and we need your help! We want to make a montage of our readers' pets from your photos to celebrate our companion

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Escape to Na Pali now available as print-on-demand

We are really excited to announce that you can now buy print-on-demand copies of Escape to Na Pali through the Five out of Ten store on Blurb: Print on Demand: paperback edition (black and white pages) Print on Demand: hardcover

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Escape to Na Pali: print on demand, and more!

Last week, we launched Escape to Na Pali: A Journey to the Unreal, the new book from Kaitlin Tremblay and Alan Williamson. Thanks to everyone who has picked up a copy so far – your feedback has been great! If

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