Plan for Brian Jones

Japan, hooray!

So I've been in Japan at the University of Sapporo, Hokkaido for about 3 weeks now. Life is good, and I am having a great time. For those interested in the mundane things I do here, and my occasional thoughts on gaming, I've been making an effort to update mojobojo with what's on my mind. I swear I will try to get more pictures up!

I wish I could say I was seriously pounding out a game in my spare time, but unfortunately that spare time is dedicated to completing a consulting job I have been working on that helped fund my international exchange to Japan. The rest of my spare time may very well go towards building an A.I. Go player (Independent Study Project) with the help of some very strong Senseis at the college of Engineering.

My other passion is to continue to explore concepts behind dynamic persistant worlds. I've posted a few ideas about it on mojobojo (unfortunately some posts got buried in the db with a software change), but fully intend to write a 'white paper' on how I view the topic. I really think that the industy is in a horrible 'cookie cutter rut' right now, and the lack of innovative genres is making this end of the entertainment industry a little boring compared to several years ago. Not that my opinion is unique anyway, however, I fully intend to come up with unique ways to improve it (or so I hope).

My ultimate goal is to leverage this software I have been writing into a marketable product, (the company I am working for is interested in forming a seperate entity with me at the head, it's all been in the works for awhile now), and my pipe dream is to use the imaginary proceeds to fund more software development, and hopefully a small time game company! I guess we will see how it goes!