Codemasters owes me a pair of pants.

Oh my...

Round 2

So I've been at my job for a little over 6 months now. I've learned a ton, both from a technical standpoint and also about the game industry in general. I still love my job, but I've noticed lately that it's not really filling that creative void inside. Even though it was hard as hell, I had a blast working on my first game, Color Bind. In my current job (porting), however, I don't get to actually create any kind of content for the games I am working on...it's purely technical work.

So, I've decided to start working on some new projects in my spare time. The farthest along right now is an online collectable card game for PC (and maybe Xbox 360) that I'm collaborating with Garrett and Will on. Besides that, I've also got some pretty solid ideas for a mobile shmup and a 2D beat 'em up. I'm also messing around with trying to learn more about XNA as well.

I'll post any updates related to these games here on my blog.

What I'm Playing: 03/14/08

"GET!"

So, I got Super Smash Bros. Brawl Saturday night. Erin and I hit Wal-Mart at about 11:30pm and there was already a few people in line. At midnight there were probably about 10 people total. I'm sure it beat the crowd at the nearest Gamestop, plus I didn't get hassled about trade-ins, pre-orders, or subscribing to a shitty magazine.

The game is awesome. I played it well into the night on Saturday and then most of the day yesterday. I really, really like Olimar. And my old favs, Peach and Yoshi are pretty much the same as Melee, which is a good thing. Overall, I feel like the game has less of an impact than Melee intially did due to being more of an incremental upgrade whereas Melee was a complete overhall. Right now I'm the only person I know that has has it, which is keeping me from playing online much since random matches seem to be broken at the moment. On the bright side I guess Jesse and Garrett will have the game in a day or two. And I'm pretty sure Aaron at work will have it when he comes back from his honeymoon. And Will, if he ever finds a Wii. Everyone else pussed out, for one reason or another :(