Well, it's all over red rover. The studio has finally closed the door on the game (which was a lot of fun). While not a lot of my ideas made the end cut, I had a fabulous time. It's obvious to me now that I really do want to work as a Game Designer. The iCi party at Kelvin Grove yesterday was a lot of fun and I ran into one of my old lecturers who I had a rather interesting conversation with. It'll be intriguing to see what happens from that talk, I assure you.
I can now pad out my resume with focus-testing for Halfbrick Studios, but it is more than my life is worth to tell you what I was testing there. Really. It's interesting the level of secrecy that goes on with major game developers these days. But I suppose it's to protect the interests of their employees and their studio. So bully to them, I say! You keep on keeping on!
This is my final year at university and woo, only three subjects a semester! How cool is that? Thank you, studio-gameOn, for being my major project. It really is nice to not have to be running around like a headless chicken most of the week. Plus I have mondays off now, which is a welcome reprieve to my weekends in hell.
On a side note, how GOOD is Zero Puncutation? I was lucky enough to meet Yahtzee and he was awesome. He was at one of the open days at the studio with Yug from Australian Gamer and Yug's girlfriend Lauren. If you all haven't watched at least one of Yahtzee's videos, I highly recommend you go and google him now. He's incredibly talented and writes a nicely scathing review.
As to games that I have been playing, I finished New Super Mario Bros. My thoughts? Meh, it could have been better. Really, though, there were some good game mechanics like the wall-jump that saved my rear more than once while free-falling down the pit of endless falling and eventual dying. That said, it was FAR too easy to rack up in excess of fifty lives by the end of world three. Really, games shouldn't be that easy.
Well, that's all for now. I have more, but lunch calls.
~@ me.
Friday, February 27, 2009
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