The making of the game

Well, loyal subjects, this is going to be my last posting on the game, cos it’s out now and you can all play it for yourself so you don’t need me to tell you all about it, do you?!!!!

Just so you know, my favourite levels are still the ones where I get to chase Margaret away by throwing loads of goo at her. And where she gets pooed on by a pigeon even though she’s trying her best to stop me getting the Killer Boy Rats tickets - I always get her in the end!

So, let me know what you think of the game – you can write to me at my 'get in touch' page. And keep checking into the website, cos there’s loads more new things coming up for you to see and do.

And remember, be gross, be horrid! Be really horrid!!!!!!!

PS Killer Boy Rats Rule OK!

My game is awesome!!!!

And gross, and coool and all the things I’d want it to be.

It’s called Horrid Henry’s Missions of Mischief (told you so Mum) and it’s out on the DS Tomorrow.

I’ll have to wait a bit longer to play the Wii version (Soon) and Mrs Oddbod’s going to have to wait till to play it on her PC!!

We ended up with 40 levels (40, count ‘em!!) and you get to do loads of different things.

You get Gizmos if you complete the levels fast enough and I can get a gold gizmo on almost every level now, though Brainy Brian says that’s just because I’ve had a head start.

Cos I’d already done the T Rex bonus game I asked for another one and they said cos I’d been such a brilliant game designer I could have one, so now I get to use my Double Drencher to shoot down the balloons that Moody Margaret’s sending over to my house to get me into trouble (only don’t tell ant features, otherwise she’ll try to spoil it!!).

Mum says I have to stop writing this blog now, and get on with my homework, or else..

Hmm! Houston, we have a problem!

There are some levels where I have to protect Peter from things and I told them this was really unrealistic, because in real life Peter would need protection from me!

The writer said it would all be clear when I saw the story so I told her there was no way she could make up a story where I’d want to save Peter from mischief, but she just told me to ‘wait and see’ like Mum always does.

So Ralph and me took all the chocolate from her desk and hid it around the office, and when she asked us where we’d put it I just said ‘wait and see!’

She didn’t seem to find it funny.

Apparently the game’s nearly finished, which is a big relief ‘cos I’m fed up with everyone nagging me about when they can play it.

Even Mrs Oddbod asked me other day if she can have a review copy.

I’ve had a sneak play on the latest version of the game and it’s way better than it was before.

They’ve got my house, the park and my school (even the toilets) in it and I get to throw goo at my enemies (yes, Moody Margaret, Miss Battle-Axe and Stuck Up Steve – if you’re reading this that includes you!!!) and I can collect power-ups that make the game even more fun.

I’ve even found Mr Kill in one level and it unlocked a secret bonus level where I can turn into a T-rex and chase after Peter!

But don’t tell anyone, that bit’s secret!!

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY!

Guess what?

I’m playing the game! !!!!!

Well, the first version of it anyway.

They’ve made a character that looks like me in it and he can run around and jump over things.

I told them it was fun but it could be more horrid.

Perfect Peter said ‘patience is a virtue’, whatever that means, and then I threatened him with my Gross Goo, but Peter ducked and the goo went all over the head designer’s shoes.

He was really cross at first until someone else said that’s what the game was missing, and they completely forgot about me and started working on their computers.

I told them goo was the answer to everything!!!

Yippee!

We’re going to the studio next week to see the game!!!!

And we’ve got to decide a name for it too.

I said it’s got to have my name in the title, and Mum said ‘don’t be so horrid Henry’ and ‘remember you want tickets to go to the Killer Boy Rats concert next month’.

This made them scribble even more on their notepads.

Hope they’re drawing pictures of Mum with a big bogey coming out of her nose.

That’s what I’d draw.

Uh oh, hope Mum doesn’t ever read this otherwise there’ll be no TV for a week, a month, a year!!!!

Ralph and me asked when we can play the game but they just showed us some pictures of my house with lots of scribbles on them (we reckoned we could have done the drawings better than them) and diagrams saying stuff like ‘enemy toy robot goes here’ and ‘paper airplane attacks Henry here’. Not sure I like the sound of that!!!!!

I told them I definitely didn’t want Mum or Dad to be in the game because they’d just ruin it, they’re always getting in the way and stopping me doing things. They said that was kind of the point cos the videogame can’t be too easy, and then I asked them if the worm was going to be in it and they said of course, it would be Horrid Henry without poopy pants telling tales and being a goody goody. Why should he get any of my glory though.

It’s not fair!

Cool, this game designing lark is hard work.

The game people were back today to ask me even more questions.

And they wanted me to tell them what other people I wanted in the game, and I told them I didn’t care so long as Moody Margaret was there so I could make her life miserable.

They scribbled lots of notes down when I told them all about Margaret and what a beetle brain she is, I think she’s going to be in the game a lot.

And she’s gonna get gooed a lot!

Seems like I’m not the only one who spends their whole time thinking of horrible things to do.

We (me and the game designers, dontcha know?!, apparently we’re a creative team now!!!!) were talking about what sort of mischief I get up to and I told them about the time I took Fang into school for show and tell, and about Mum being scared of spiders and Dad liking hot food and they thought this was all great.

One of them suggested hiding Fang in a place that was really hard to find, and letting all the spiders loose and then someone came up with the idea of a pooing pigeon!

These people are even more horrid than me!

Some more game people came to my house today, but this time it was the techie ones who know how to make a computer work.

They asked me if I wanted a 2D parallax scrolling game with bitmaps or a 3D vector generated adventure.

I told them I don’t care so long as Moody Margaret gets gooed as much as possible and they just nodded their heads and mumbled something about sprite-based collision detection.

These people are bonkers.

Hey, maybe they can work out old Battle-Axe’s password so me and Ralph can fiddle our exam results.

Must remember to ask them next time.

I’ve been giving this game thing some serious thought, and I asked Rude Ralph what he thought about it, and he said all we need to do is have a big picture of Moody Margaret on the screen and lots of goo pots which you can click on so it splats all over her moody face.

Tee hee!

But the game people said they wanted more ‘gameplay’, whatever that is, so I offered to give them a Moody Makeover instead, and I told them what I’d done to the wormy worm at Hallowe’en, and Dad said ‘don’t be horrid Henry’, but the game people got all excited and started scribbling notes in their notepads and saying things like ‘that’s a great idea for a level’.

I think I’m going to enjoy being a game designer!

Listen up loyal subjects – King Henry the Horrible here!

Posting my very first blog on my brand new website – glad you could join me!

Now first up I’ve got something really weird to tell you.

Some strange people came to my house today and started asking me lots of strange questions.

They said they wanted to make a video game based on me (that’s ME, Horrid Henry!) and they want me to help them make it.

I told them I don’t know anything about making video games, I’m just mega brilliantly cool at playing them but they said that didn’t matter ‘cos they didn’t really know anything about making video games either but that hasn’t stopped them doing it.

So I said yes.

I would help them.

How cool is that?!!!!