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Plan for Ray Depew
| Name: | Ray Depew |  |
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| Date Posted: | Mar 02, 2005 | |
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Day jobs, day jobs. I mean day jobs, as in "Don't quit your ...".
Of the group that formed the original Horsetooth Technologies to pursue training and serious gaming, all but one of us have gone and gotten day jobs. Roger is still pursuing serious gaming opportunities, mostly in advertising and promotion. We had a promising opportunity for simulation and visualization with the the agricultural technology department at the local land-grant university, but that fell through.
One of the split-offs of Horsetooth Tech is still pursuing a deal with a real-estate developer, but the development has been put on hold because soils engineers found unstable soil underneath the four-lane road that cuts through the proposed development, and so nothing is getting done until the affected parts of the road are fixed.
As for the emergency response training, all the money that was to go to the state for such training has been diverted or donated by the state to rebuild and relocate after Hurricane Katrina.
It's a good thing I don't depend on this for a living, after all.
Two bright spots: First, a trio of us are working on a children's game-therapy tool, a Zelda-type game built on Torque. It will have an animated intro that is just a movie filmed in TGE, but the gameplay will be in T2D. Second, I'm working as a schoolteacher (Grade 7 math, since you asked), and the district buildings department gave me the blueprints to the adjacent high school because they want to see what kind of emergency-response training I can throw together for them. We'll have a demo for the game therapy conference in April, and a sort-of-product this fall.
And with all this, I'm looking for a temporary job for the summer. What? You thought teachers got the summers off? Naw! They all find summer jobs to support their teaching habit!
Of the group that formed the original Horsetooth Technologies to pursue training and serious gaming, all but one of us have gone and gotten day jobs. Roger is still pursuing serious gaming opportunities, mostly in advertising and promotion. We had a promising opportunity for simulation and visualization with the the agricultural technology department at the local land-grant university, but that fell through.
One of the split-offs of Horsetooth Tech is still pursuing a deal with a real-estate developer, but the development has been put on hold because soils engineers found unstable soil underneath the four-lane road that cuts through the proposed development, and so nothing is getting done until the affected parts of the road are fixed.
As for the emergency response training, all the money that was to go to the state for such training has been diverted or donated by the state to rebuild and relocate after Hurricane Katrina.
It's a good thing I don't depend on this for a living, after all.
Two bright spots: First, a trio of us are working on a children's game-therapy tool, a Zelda-type game built on Torque. It will have an animated intro that is just a movie filmed in TGE, but the gameplay will be in T2D. Second, I'm working as a schoolteacher (Grade 7 math, since you asked), and the district buildings department gave me the blueprints to the adjacent high school because they want to see what kind of emergency-response training I can throw together for them. We'll have a demo for the game therapy conference in April, and a sort-of-product this fall.
And with all this, I'm looking for a temporary job for the summer. What? You thought teachers got the summers off? Naw! They all find summer jobs to support their teaching habit!
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Submit your own resources!| Ray Depew (Mar 02, 2005 at 04:14 GMT) |
| David Montgomery-Blake (Mar 02, 2005 at 04:32 GMT) |
I'd love to see the screenshots.
| Bob (Mar 02, 2005 at 05:59 GMT) Resource Rating: 5 |
| Peter Dwyer (Mar 02, 2005 at 10:24 GMT) |
Excellent stuff.
I think you have a solid business idea here, and you are one of only a few people doing simulation software with Torque. I hope it all pulls together for you (though I know it will as you have a solid idea here).
You have inspired me to move forward with a similar type of idea here in england.
| Justin Mette (Mar 02, 2005 at 14:56 GMT) |
| Phil Carlisle (Mar 02, 2005 at 14:57 GMT) |
| Gary Haussmann (Mar 02, 2005 at 17:13 GMT) |
| Ray Depew (Mar 04, 2005 at 01:00 GMT) |
EDIT: Here they are. Enjoy!
@Gary: Not a totally off-the-wall idea about the transponders. Imagine if one of your friends was skiing with his GPS-equipped cellphone and you could somehow get its coordinates? It could be done.
Britton LaRoche suggested we hook into a weather service feed and model timely and accurate weather in the sim. That way, when your friends get down the hill and say, "Man, you wouldn't believe the blizzard at Copper today!" you could just smile and say, "Yeah, I know. I was there."
Edited on Jul 11, 2007 03:35 GMT
| Bob (Mar 10, 2005 at 02:30 GMT) Resource Rating: 5 |
Do you have anymore of the player actually skiing?
| Ray Depew (Mar 10, 2005 at 05:56 GMT) |
Most of them are back views from a distance. I didn't want to get really elaborate with the skier physics or the camera until we had a signed contract with somebody, and of course we don't have one of those yet.
Edited on Mar 17, 2005 23:09 GMT
| Bob (Apr 09, 2005 at 21:02 GMT) Resource Rating: 5 |
They look really awesome.
I can't wait to play this game.
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