March 2013
5 posts
Some personal observations at GDC
For most people, GDC is a time of learning and networking and fun. And while I always have a Good Time (tm), this time of year always brings about a number of confused and conflicting emotions for me that are mostly unrelated to the content of the sessions and the conference itself. So let’s see….
GDC makes me feel like people don’t really like me. I know I have a bit of...
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I realized that I'm a thinker, not a doer.
I’ve determined that I have so much an obsession with “doing” that I end up not doing anything. It’s a problem.
I’m a product of internet culture. I spend much of my days and evenings reading the web. I have a staple set of 10 or so websites that I check multiple times throughout the day. I follow RSS feeds and aggregate sites, combing over Hacker News and Reddit...
February 2013
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What I Am Playing Right Now
Being that I’m a person with a slight ‘gaming ADD’ problem, I figured it would be fun to keep track of what games I’m currently playing on an ongoing basis.
EverQuest
Yeah, yeah, I know. Who knows how long this will last. But I made a new druid on the Vox server and I’m giving it a go. The game is now ‘free to play’ but I have a gold account and a...
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Me singing Hedwig & The Angry Inch after many...
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Me singing Etta James after a couple drinks at...
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January 2013
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Global Game Jam 2013 in San Francisco: Day 1
I’m up in San Francisco for the weekend for the Global Game Jam, an event in which we have 48 hours to create a game from start to finish. First off, I have an awesome team. Of course it’s mostly comprised of people I work with in my day job, but they are totally rad and therefore our team name is Team Awesome. LET IT BE SO.
Day 1 started with the making of ‘crowns’,...
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My Games of the Year
2012 was the year that I put aside MMOs in favor of playing a larger variety of games. I think I did “just okay” with that hope. I certainly played more of the top games than in 2011, but there are still some big ones (Journey, Waking Mars, Mark of the Ninja) that I’m sure would be in my list if I’d had gotten a chance to play them. Alas, here is my list of the...
Plans for 2013
I know, it’s not New Year’s yet, but I wanted to get a jump on getting my thoughts for my goals for 2013 down on paper. 2012 has been a huge year for me. My fiance and I moved back home to San Diego and bought our first house. I bought my wonderful horse Rosie, and showed her for the first time. I got a pretty huge promotion at work from Producer to Studio Director, and launched...
Hodgepodge Update
I am currently just under halfway through a two week break from work over the holidays, and damn does it feel nice. It’s been probably the most low key ‘vacation’ of any that I’ve had. Almost everyone I know here in San Diego is out of town for the holidays, or they’re already back to work. I’ve basically been spending the time riding my horse, playing various...
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2012 In Review
2012 was a hell of a year. I feel incredibly fortunate that while other people had a lot of sorrow and heartache this year, I was spared from the misfortune. I have no idea where this year went, because it sure went quickly. Here’s a look back at the year.
The year started with us living in the San Francisco Bay Area, renting a house in Burlingame. While we were pretty unhappy there, we...
January 2009
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