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Life after the Action

So I have been pretty quiet lately on this blog and my own personal one. I figured I needed to make sure that everyone understood there is no bad blood between me and my GG family. So here is a small update on whats been keeping me quiet for the last few months.

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 03/29/2011 (9:33 am) Comment 9 comments

Darkwind Rolls out with Torque!

Passion and dedication are the core traits to help anyone get through developing a game. Let's take a look at how this group made it through their development process with an interview from Sam Redfern of Psychic Software.

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 10/22/2010 (11:40 pm) Comment 12 comments

Getting Ready to Hit the Road to GDC Online and a Contest

As you can see from Eric's post the InstantAction team has been hard at work this summer. But it does not stop there. Derek and Eric are heading down to Austin to meet up with me and head to GDC Online (formerly known as Austin GDC) to show off our new Windows Phone 7 tech.

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 09/22/2010 (9:26 pm) Comment 28 comments

Alebrije Estudios is gaining new Heights with iTorque2D!

One thing I love about this company is the fact that we are a global organization. So with this interview I wanted to do two things. Number one get the developer interview section back up and running! And show off of some developers from the international community.

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 09/10/2010 (6:29 pm) Comment 5 comments

Torque for SBIR/STTR Development

I wanted to take the time in this blog to speak on the subject of Torque for non-entertainment game purposes.

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 07/16/2010 (10:00 pm) Comment 20 comments

A Two Week Running Start At InstantAction

Ten days of training, meetings, and road trips. What a way to start a new career. Here is a look into the past few days....

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 06/22/2010 (1:41 pm) Comment 21 comments

Boy.... it's tough out there!

Hmmm that's odd I am in the games industry but I am not making money hand over fist. Here is our plan to survive and grow in this economy. I even have a video linked in Hit the Jump for more!

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 01/21/2009 (9:00 pm) Comment 9 comments

Busy Busy Busy

Well I have been pretty quiet on the forums lately. My last few plans where surrounding my teams larger project. Well I am very proud to announce that with the very hard and dedicated work from Dan Mc...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 12/22/2008 (11:57 am) Comment 2 comments

Busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest...

I have been really busy working on this new game project. Things are going very well, our team is growing at an appropriate pace and its even growing across the world. I will go into more detail about...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 06/16/2008 (9:16 pm) Comment 7 comments

Once more unto the breach, dear friends!

So it's been a while since I made a .plan entry. I have been pretty busy with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Since I have expanded the family and investing a lot of extra time training in...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 02/10/2008 (10:19 pm) Comment 2 comments

So you want to be a brand manager?

So I have been working on some networking documentation... social networking that is. In some other blogs around the GG site I made mention that I would like to write up a post on how to use social ne...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 09/18/2007 (7:05 pm) Comment 6 comments

Good times at the Austin Game Dev Con

Well I am pooped after last week. Since I work full time during the day it was impossible for me to get time off to attend the AGDC during the day. But I did however get to hang out a bunch of after p...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 09/09/2007 (2:28 pm) Comment 6 comments

I have the top of the mountain and it is good

Due to really interesting experience this weekend I wanted to write this blog post. Its games related but more or less industry vs actual development. Also its targeted towards younger Indies.So h...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 08/19/2007 (8:49 pm) Comment 2 comments

Where have I been?

So I haven't been to active on my blog, but I have a great wonderful and might I say myself handsome excuse: But before I get to that let me build the story a little bit. Trust me its game related....

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 08/06/2007 (7:38 am) Comment 15 comments

Getting Older and Wiser??

Well It's official today this day the 29th day of January in the year 2007 I am 29 years old.... what have I learn? Making a game is pretty dang hard. My team is working very well and we are growi...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 01/29/2007 (12:07 am) Comment 7 comments

Wow Wii

So I went out shopping with my family. I had some spare time to sneak away to play with the Nintendo Wii for the first time. I know I maybe late to the party for a official review or what not, but man...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 12/09/2006 (9:31 pm) Comment 36 comments

The holidays aren't slowing this team down!

A update on the project from Seismic Games So I have made mention that we have got a publisher for our team and that is moving along greatly. We have been hard at work getting our game r...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 12/06/2006 (5:21 pm) Comment 5 comments

Busting at the seems...

Okay, I have to admit I am pretty excited. My team is hard at work building our first game using the TGB engine. The game was set to be a simple casual game design to really take our team through the ...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 11/28/2006 (9:23 pm) Comment 6 comments

Busy busy busy

So it's been a bit since I had a good game update. Things are moving very well for us. Here are few things we have done so far: We settled on a company name and website Seismic Games www.seismi...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 11/02/2006 (5:57 am) Comment 2 comments

Work / Life / Passion Balance

No its not a new Multiclass character in MoM. But it does however describe whats going on with me these days. I used to be all over the forums and answering and asking as much as I could. Lately thoug...

Author Donald "Yadot" Harris Date 10/08/2006 (10:25 pm) Comment 8 comments

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