Sentimental Gamer

Just had to post this.

First post from my new laptop bought earlier today. Here it is.

Not yet played any games on it. Still think I need to update video drivers.

Also, I keep having to mop up my pools of saliva off the keyboard….

I’m a bit of a fan of the books. They’re hilarious. And fun. And smart. So, I finally made myself watch the movie. I actually started to watch it before, maybe a year or so ago, and it’s one of the few movies I literally could not watch, so I stopped 10 minutes in. It was just… not… funny…. you know? Like, whereas the book had me in stitches by the time the Earth is blown up, the movie… I really couldn’t bring myself to laugh much at all.

So eh… oh well. I told myself I’d try it again, and I did, and nope… it didnt’ get any better. Could have been a lot of fun, but nope.

So, as so often happens with this sort of thing… read the book, skip the movie.

So the fun thing about working on Spore is that you get to play it early, and you get to see the cool inner workings.

The bad thing? Well, you aren’t really able talk about the game:(. Oh well… it’ll all be out there in a few months.

So, it turns out that I wasn’t actually rejected outright by Insomniac… apparently, my rejection email had been sent to the wrong address (or…. that’s what they tell me anyways). I was just called to schedule a followup interview with them on the phone. Hah… how’s that for… well ok not irony… but, well…

Ok, point is, I’m feeling a lot better now that I know that at least ONE of my technical tests has resulted in interest. Though then again, maybe they just ran out of alternative candidates and so decided to tell me “oh right… your rejection was a… err… mistake… umm… wanna talk?” You know? Do people do that? *shrugs* Oh well. I’ve got my Spore internship, so I’m a happy camper.

And I swear that this is the last job related post for AWHILE. No joke. Back to Stage IV goodness soon enough…

Huh… I seem to have taken up a habit of spamming my family (and Macy with something that piques my interest, then realizing that it’d probably something I’d like to post on here. Oh well. Anyways, here’s what I just mailed out about a video from ‘92 about workers at Cornell (after the jump)… Read more »

So, to clarify the previous post, I’m happy because I could work on Spore this summer! The call with details had to be moved off to today (was originally for last Thursday),  but now I know for sure!

Still, I’ll be heading off to Washington on Thursday afternoon to see whether Microsoft has a better offer (that is, if they have one at all ). It’s hard to see what they could offer that could be better than this, but I’m willing to go and find out.

http://playthisthing.com/pigeons-park

Pigeons In the Park

Weird… I think this, among all the games I’ve ever heard of or played in my life, is the one that comes closest to what I’m making (Stage IV). At least, in terms of design, not necessarily themes, content, or graphics. Yeah, it is sorta like hypertext fiction, but there’s something different about it that I can’t put my finger on (I’ve never really liked hypertext fiction, but this I think is pretty fun). Give it a download and play if you want to get an idea of what Stage IV will (god help me, hopefully) be like. Somewhat different, but kinda close.

To be fair, the scenario does remind one a bit too strongly of another scene…

Colored hair…. orange sweater… crazy urge to talk to random person who thinks he’s boring? Yep, thats Eternal Sunshine alright… but hey it’s not like it was the first of its kind either. I’m willing to forgive.