Luring me into the rocks
Holy shit but the siren call of video games is strong. Already sitting on 4 games I'm resisting playing as much as I can. I do plan to check out Fez, though.
I could easily live a life of work and games. I definitely see the allure. For today, though, life itself is a more engaging challenge for me.
Aaron, Ben and Greg are all working downstairs in a meeting room on their laptops. I wasn't given a laptop so I'm working upstairs on my desktop. I've run into a JSONP issue in the Fox Searchlight site I'm working on. Greg is helping me think on the problems. I head downstairs, sit next to Greg and laugh "So this problem is getting fun!" Gleefully. With skepticism in his voice Greg says "You're not making it sound fun..."
Later Greg comes upstairs to check on my progress and suggest I call it a night. During our conversation he learns that I find this to be the fun part of programming - running into a problem and butting my head against it for hours on end until I learn something.
Jorge's words ring in my head: "You're a masochist." I'm standing at my desk coding non-stop, overtime, behind schedule and still suggesting features we could add to make the project better.
I miss my old team at EA. I think I'll fit in fine over at Ignition but it doesn't feel as awesome. A much bigger group, a much smaller operation, I'm not surrounded by those I consider powerhouses. Not yet. Don't get me wrong, these devs are definitely talented, but Tony just had a brilliantly different approach to development. And Joey. Well, designers are designers but this dude is Joey.
I'm taking steps to hit up Joey and Tony this week. Jorge was easy to meet up with. These boys are decidedly harder to sync up to.
I could easily live a life of work and games. I definitely see the allure. For today, though, life itself is a more engaging challenge for me.
Aaron, Ben and Greg are all working downstairs in a meeting room on their laptops. I wasn't given a laptop so I'm working upstairs on my desktop. I've run into a JSONP issue in the Fox Searchlight site I'm working on. Greg is helping me think on the problems. I head downstairs, sit next to Greg and laugh "So this problem is getting fun!" Gleefully. With skepticism in his voice Greg says "You're not making it sound fun..."
Later Greg comes upstairs to check on my progress and suggest I call it a night. During our conversation he learns that I find this to be the fun part of programming - running into a problem and butting my head against it for hours on end until I learn something.
Jorge's words ring in my head: "You're a masochist." I'm standing at my desk coding non-stop, overtime, behind schedule and still suggesting features we could add to make the project better.
I miss my old team at EA. I think I'll fit in fine over at Ignition but it doesn't feel as awesome. A much bigger group, a much smaller operation, I'm not surrounded by those I consider powerhouses. Not yet. Don't get me wrong, these devs are definitely talented, but Tony just had a brilliantly different approach to development. And Joey. Well, designers are designers but this dude is Joey.
I'm taking steps to hit up Joey and Tony this week. Jorge was easy to meet up with. These boys are decidedly harder to sync up to.