Four seconds of screen time :)
A reporter and camera guy from the Associated Press came by our offices last week to interview the company owner Jeff Kinney, who is also author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series of books (I wasn't aware of this connected when I started the new job).
I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement when I started working, so I when I heard the reporter coming near I wasn't sure if having work-in-progress game content related stuff on-screen would be a problem or not. And I didn't have enough time to clarify this with my boss, I literally had about a minute of hearing them interviewing my cubicle neighbor to understand the situation before they wandered over to my desk.
So at the last second, I closed all my windows of work I was doing for the company and put up a personal image that I made for myself to practice working in the game's visual style. This isn't content that's related to the game at all - in fact, some of you may recognize the Vicarial Sigil on the front of the building shown :)
Unfortunately (or fortunately(?)), I didn't think to sign my name to it - I've been making practice images like this just as personal exercises.
According to the YouTube timer, my image is on-screen for seconds 0:11, 0:12, 0:13, and 0:14 Woot! The rest of the video is the interview with Jeff who basically explains what an MMO is.
The Associated Press makes syndicated news, covering everything from hardnosed politics to basic entertainment interviews like this. I suspect this is timely because the Wimpy Kid movie is about to come out in like a week or so, and the series of books is apparently very popular among kid readers.
Google tells me that the above clip played in a bunch of small local TV stations around the country. So I expect the subliminal fallout from this to affect viewers nationally within a week or so.
End times, end times.
I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement when I started working, so I when I heard the reporter coming near I wasn't sure if having work-in-progress game content related stuff on-screen would be a problem or not. And I didn't have enough time to clarify this with my boss, I literally had about a minute of hearing them interviewing my cubicle neighbor to understand the situation before they wandered over to my desk.
So at the last second, I closed all my windows of work I was doing for the company and put up a personal image that I made for myself to practice working in the game's visual style. This isn't content that's related to the game at all - in fact, some of you may recognize the Vicarial Sigil on the front of the building shown :)
Unfortunately (or fortunately(?)), I didn't think to sign my name to it - I've been making practice images like this just as personal exercises.
According to the YouTube timer, my image is on-screen for seconds 0:11, 0:12, 0:13, and 0:14 Woot! The rest of the video is the interview with Jeff who basically explains what an MMO is.
Click to viewThe Associated Press makes syndicated news, covering everything from hardnosed politics to basic entertainment interviews like this. I suspect this is timely because the Wimpy Kid movie is about to come out in like a week or so, and the series of books is apparently very popular among kid readers.
Google tells me that the above clip played in a bunch of small local TV stations around the country. So I expect the subliminal fallout from this to affect viewers nationally within a week or so.
End times, end times.