newcastle (and elsewhere) briefs
Things have definitely been fast and furiously paced in the last little while, a tempo I’m glad to find myself still very comfortable with. In addition to working intensely and enjoyably on the game, quite a few fun personal events have taken place. Pikoti’s five-year-old son came to stay with us for a few days...
some premium material for a franco-canadian romcom
Been meaning to publish this guest post for about a month, but many things got in the way, including some sad news that needed blogging about. Now that the weather seems to be clearing, here goes… It was a sunny Wednesday morning in June, in Newcastle. A producer from Montreal had just landed to give...
oh yeah… a bit of news
So I’ve moved to Newcastle in the UK for a few months, to work on this with them. It all happened quite quickly… so here I am and after 3 days pretty much offline I’m like a very relieved addict getting a fix. Even doing a blog post. Newcastle looks like an old town that’s...
hello again, world!
Hi again, After trying my hand at freelancing, I found that while it was a successful endeavor, it wasn’t really an enjoyable one. Although I saw people every day, they were never the same ones and I missed being part of a team and creating the bonds one does through repeated exposure. So after getting...
how are things at the campus, mj?
Well boss, it’s starting to look like a real production. I’m leaving around 7:30 PM, the creative director called me a castrator in public today, and I can’t tell you how happy I am.
what’s going on with me
Since leaving A2M last year, I’ve been searching for the same level of joy I found in my first years as a game producer (especially on Happy Feet). Unfortunately, by the end of the Iron Man project, that joy had been replaced by throwing up into office garbage cans and on one memorable occasion, losing...
haven’t been on this particular soapbox for a while…
Yahtzee excels at eloquently expressing my thoughts. …basically I’m just so fucking bored of shit like this. The improbably Warhammer 40k-esque power armour. The automatic healing. The overcompensating macho beefcakes with voices like they’ve had their lips clamped around exhaust pipes their whole lives. The schizophrenic design-by-committee flitting between whiny drama and goofy wisecracks. The...
on media consumption duties
Someone took exception to the fact that my BAFTA picks reflected only the small variety of games I played last year. True, but the nuance is I don’t play games I don’t like; I don’t feel bound to play unenjoyable games out of professional duty. I only feel duty-bound to try to play them. As...
my picks for the BAFTAs (and some raspberries)
ACTION & ADVENTURE Call of Duty 4, which I finished in two sittings last week; it was overall one of the best put-together games I’ve ever experienced, complete with a couple of moments of genius and unfortunately a few of intense frustration. As a game I’d probably give it a 95%, which means it ranks...
irony
This page on how to make a good powerpoint presentation is presented in a way that makes me think I shouldn’t trust it. I honestly thought for a second it was a clever way to make its point.
three months in
… well almost. Month 3 of freelancing went something like this: Things were going relatively well, I was spending about half my time on an unlucrative project dear to my heart, and the other half on work that pays the bills. I was determined not to take on more. Then, early in the month, the...
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