CREATIVE & DIGITAL

Cornwall-based indie games start-up, Studio Somewhere, has released its first game on the Nintendo Switch.

Multi-player game, Bonito Days, created by the studio founders Cameron Shackleton and Adam Westerman while on Falmouth Univeristy’s Launchpad programme, was released last month.

Shackleton said: “We spent around 14 months creating and releasing Bonito Days and with it now out in the world we look back on that time with joy and pride, and we’ve already seen positive reviews in Gamer Escape and KeenGamer.”

He added: “We’re not stopping anytime soon; we’ve already started work on our next game while also taking time to fix some small issues with Bonito Days. For us we want to keep going, not just because we love making games but also to improve, and ultimately become even better at the art of designing and creating video games.”

A Cornish company launched a new app last month to help improve mental health and wellbeing.

According to the Health & Safety Executive, 57% of all working days lost to ill health are due to stress and anxiety.

The new app from HealthPad features a range of exercises designed to be easily included within your working day to help you maintain focus, energy and motivation. The three founders of Healthpad have personal experience of supporting families and friends through health challenges.

Jo Ramsden said: “We seem to have stopped listening to our bodies in recent times and we simply want to help you understand your own body and mind better so you can live a content, happy, disease-free life. Have an open mind, give the exercises and tools a go – follow the techniques and notice how different you feel.”

By Paddy Paddison, chief technology officer at Wildanet

Customers in some areas across Cornwall are currently among the first in the county to see their old copper wire-based telephone services completely switched off and all their calls and broadband fully transferred over to fibre.

It’s all part of the copper network switch-off, which aims to retire the UK’s old analogue phone network from now up to the end of 2025, with Openreach naming areas to be turned off on a regular basis.

Sounds great, except that those homes and businesses which already have a fibre connection direct to their property are now moving on to the next chapter of fully digital communications at the same time