Epic Games VP Mark Rein called episodic gaming a “broken business,” triggering outrage among some delegates during the Develop Conference in Brighton, England today. (more)
Finally – a game developer on my side!
Archive for July, 2006
LikeWell it took him two years, but Alex Leon finally finished the fifth and final part of his epic Mario Brothers saga. Worth the wait!
Epic battles, Shakespearian tragedy, and a gripping soundtrack make this one of the best Flash/game-sprite animations of all time!
We’re hiring! Actually we’ve been hiring for a while.
Our application form is right here. Some other company liked it SO MUCH that they decided to copy us. Is nothing sacred!
You know you’ve hit rock bottom at the Orange County Fair when you’re stuffed beyond belief and are staring down the bottom of a cup of Dippin’ Dots thinking “I know can finish this if I just buckle down and focus.”
Late last night we went to a special ticketed event for POTC: Dead Man’s Chest. Things started in the Disneyland Hotel with the usual merchandise pickup stations and photo op, then we were given a pretty enormous elaborately-themed feast with appropriate entertainment, followed by a two-hour unlimited fast pass for the ride and a midnight showing of the movie.
Going to see a movie at midnight might sound like a great idea, but it really isn’t. The movie itself was great, even though it had a Empire-Strikes-Back ending, but we didn’t get home until 3 in the morning. I’m running on about three hours of sleep right now and I’m starting to see colors that aren’t there and everything I’ve had to eat or drink today has tasted like a new flavor of water.
I’m not the spry young devil I once was. I’m getting too old for this staying out late business.
Well that was a nice four-day weekend.
Saturday we drove down to San Diego and checked in to the W Hotel in downtown San Diego. We stayed in probably the coolest hotel room I’ve ever been in. I always knew W hotels were hip and modern, but I’d never actually stayed in one before. Totally sweet.
One of Tammy’s Swedish coworkers and her boyfriend were in town so we met for drinks, then dinner, and then drinks, and then drinks, and then drinks again.
I do remember the four of us stopping at Mister Tiki to share a monster-sized Mondo Martiki. I think that was around 1, but it’s all sort of a blur.
We wandered around the Gaslamp Quarter from bar to bar until 2:30 in the morning. That was a little unexpected, and probably unwise because we had planned to go to Sea World early the next day.
We made it to Sea World around lunchtime. We saw the shows, rode Atlantis, and did all that stuff on Sunday.
Monday we went to the Wild Animal Park. We went on a photo safari tour which took us on the back of a covered truck through the backstage areas where we fed giraffes…
And a rhino!
The Wild Animal Park is really a hidden gem. Most San Diego tourists will probably opt for the Zoo or Sea World, but the Wild Animal Park is really a lot of fun. It’s basically in the middle of nowhere and even though there’s so much to see it’s super-huge so it never really feels crowded.
We drove home Monday night to avoid holiday traffic on the freeways. Last night we wound up in Disneyland to watch fourth of July fireworks.
All in all, it was a productive weekend!
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