Amsterdam next week (warning, no image!)

Well, its almost time to wrap up and get myself over to Amsterdam. Next week's casual connect conference west (the long way of saying "casuality europe" which I much preferred) should be really useful.

I have a ton of meetings to arrange and have a good bit of business to look into while I'm there.

I cant quite announce whats going on round here thats sending me into the realm of casual games, but its a good thing (tm) for casual game developers and indies from my local area (North West of Britain). So keep an eye out for an announcement soon.

So what else is happening and why no image?

Well, there's a load of things going on right now. I'm working on a load of projects at work, just finished a few off, Air Ace is coming along and we've sorted out some help for another project. Hopefully we'll finish off our "lets really define what we have left to do" list for Air Ace and the new game soon. Basically, we're putting some better plans in place so we can determine how far we have left to go and how best to proceed with what we have in place. I expect at some point, we'll be looking at contracting a few people (assuming we can find some good people, but I think it should be ok) to work on various items for our current set of titles.

In only slightly tenuously related news, I finally did it and got myself a new PC. Got a new dual core beast of a machine which I've named "monster". It really is a bit of a monster, with a 8800GTX dual core and a dell 30inch monitor, it even has a monster case with fans everywhere (including a huge 200mm one on the top).

What prompted me to get one? Well, it appears from the halflife survey of 2006, that my old PC, a 2.2gig P4 with 1 gig ram and a 9800pro was what is considered "average hardware" by the survey. So I actually have a perfect "casual hardcore player" rig for testing. But if thats average, its not exactly a screaming developer rig is it!

So now I'm all specced up again, ready for vista and dx10... and I'm looking at casual games!! :) oh the irony!

Anyway, if youre at the conference, or just hanging around amsterdam from 5th-9th, come and say hello!