Hello all - yes, I know it's been quite a while. The basic run-down of the past month has pretty much been me trying to get a job in the games industry by sending off resumes and working hard to enhance my portfolio of skills. In particular, I've found out that having some scripting knowledge (scripting is like junior-level programming, in a way - ( Read more... )

More interesting news from the videogaming front! I haven't been up to too much this past month beyond side projects intended to help improve my portfolio and Opera Slinger PR, but one item in the latter category has just shown up on the web! Midway through January, I wrote up a large, detailed postmortem describing the trials and tribulations of ( Read more... )

This is so cool. Mentions of Opera Slinger have been popping up on Gamasutra, GameSetWatch, and even a few stranger places... I mean, just what the heck is this?! While you're Czeching that one out, also note that the Germans and South Koreans have their eyes on us ( Read more... )

Remember how I mentioned that we were entering Opera Slinger in the 2007 Independent Game Festival's Student Showcase? Well, they just announced their finalists today and Opera Slinger has been selected as one of the 10 Student Showcase winners out of 102 entries! You can check out the news on IGF’s main page at:

http://www.igf.com/We're going to ( Read more... )

Well, vacation continues to be non-eventful and relaxing, which is a good thing. Unfortunately, fate decided to give me a special Christmas present in order to spice things up. That's right - on Christmas Eve, I woke up with the Cold from Hell. Y'know what, fate? This is not funny. Grow up ( Read more... )

Our Opera Slinger website has just gone live. Take a look!

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Finally, finally relaxed. A lot has happened since I lasted posted, the biggest thing of course being the completion of Opera Slinger, the crazy platforming/singing hybrid videogame that's been my life for quite some time now. After a little over 3 months of full-on production, this sucker's complete! And hey - it even turned out well! We'll be ( Read more... )

Hello all! Just a quick update - we're currently pushing towards Beta on Opera Slinger, and have successfully submitted the game to the Independant Games Festival's Student Showcase! Things are going very well, I'd say! Also, here's a picture of our team for you to see, in case you wanted to know who was responsible for all the madness!


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My birthday! Back near the end o' October - turned 24 on the 24th, no less! 'Twas a most excellent birthday, and I received many awesome presents. However, one deserves special mention here, because it's freakin' amazing. I love this thing. You must see it.

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Hello all! Over eight weeks since my last post, eh? Let me summarize those past eight weeks for you:

1. Work.
2. Two halloween parties (went as a zombie, then a graduate student in tattered clothes that were suspiciously similar to those from the zombie outfit).
3. Crazy work.
4. Won $100 in an in-class game design competition to see who could pitch the ( Read more... )