Now that the game is out, I can remove the password protection from my Professional Work page! Check it out and enjoy! There’s a lot more that I have yet to update, so I intend to take care of that over the next couple of months. I’m taking the day off from blogging. I just [...]
Tomorrow, October 6, 2009, the game I’ve been working on for the last two-ish years will be available in stores. Saw will ship. People will buy it, and play it, and hopefully like it. This is my first shipped title. It’s not the first title I’ve worked on, but the previous title didn’t ship. (That [...]
Go crazy? Don’t mind if I do! There was no blog on Monday because my internet was down. At home, anyway, and I make it a point not to blog from work because, well, they’re not paying me to blog. They’re paying me to move a heck of a lot of old assets from old [...]
Sometimes, the video game industry starts to wear on you. Sometimes, it gets tiresome. Sometimes, it gets to the point where if you have to do that same task one more goddamn time, you’re going to stab yourself in the face. When this happens, hobbies are what will save your sanity. I really recommend having [...]
1. We have three teams, and they are roughly split up by the floors we work on. This means that the second floor team is really small, because the second floor is really small. 2. The second floor (also known as the Mezzanine) is really small because it was added after the studio bought the [...]
I’ve spoken here on the blog about things you should do for your video game company (or for the company you want to be your video game company) but there are things your video game company should do for you. You should enjoy your work and be able to do it until you decide you [...]
Since it’s that time of year again (and me and my boyfriend just found out he’s going to get his tuition totally covered plus some extra! Hooray!) I thought I would talk about college. Specifically, I would answer the question: Where should I go to school if I want to make video games? In the [...]
7:45AM Wake up, get dressed. Eat breakfast of toast and tea. 8:30AM Head to the bus stop. Knit while waiting for and riding the bus. 9:00AM Arrive at work. Clear out email from the week of being home sick with swine flu. 9:30AM Get started on a modeled floor system for use by the level [...]
Yes, I probably have swine flu, and I probably caught it at PAX. I’m pretty sure I’m not going to die, and fortunately I have sick leave. That’s one of the benefits of the video games industry. It has its downsides, though. Don’t get me wrong, this is a pretty cool industry, but every pro [...]
Before I begin the next edition of “Getting into the video game industry,” I would like to point out that my very first Xbox 360 arrived today. I exercised incredible self control by actually going to work, and then going to yoga class after work, and now that I am home, I am blogging for [...]