So we're four weeks into this six week milestone to implement this feature so we can send a demo to HQ, when suddenly they call a meeting to say they're pulling the schedule in by a week and we need to deliver the demo a week earlier than we'd been planning ( Read more... )

Sound Designer B has just demonstrated a cool little game-polish feature.

Me: "Is that for [Title 1] or [Title X]?"
B: "[Title X]. And I'm glad you asked me that because I was about to break into a Bon Jovi song."
Me: "Guess we dodged a bullet there."

So the big buzz at GDC is about the OnLive gaming service. The basic idea is that OnLive is going to run high end PC games on high end machines and pipe the video to the consumer. The consumer runs a very thin client, either a cheap set top box or a PC or Mac -- and the draw here is that the consumer doesn't have to have a high end gaming machine, ( Read more... )

And Entertainment Weekly wants to play it.

All three buses (green, blue, and cat) have cleared the brick wall ( Read more... )

Consider a simulation of an energetic monkey, imbued with super-powers as the result of a bite from a radioactive spider -- a "Spider-Monkey" if you will -- with said monkey located in a somewhat compressed and scaled-down representation of Manhattan island, measuring approximately 5km by 2km ( Read more... )

So we've finally made a plan for where we land after clearing the brick wall. Turns out there's an aircraft carrier moving into position over on the other side ( Read more... )

On Yahoo.

On GameSpy.

On Kotaku.

My game is being shown at SDCC and it's getting some coverage at IGN and Destructoid.

So there's another bus besides ours that has to hit the ramp just about the same time, maybe even a little bit before. It's somewhere behind our bus right now. Its wheels are square. The logo hasn't been painted on the side yet. The jet engines aren't hooked up ( Read more... )