So, what's up Dave?

If you're like me, and you're probably not, you get a lot of messages from young beautiful women on your general continent who want to share their webcam pics with you. I've also found that there are a lot of people out there willing to fund any venture I have if I send them my bank account number. I get at least fifty offers every morning from VC's looking to transfer money into my account before their country's economy collapses. If I get these offers and I'm not even working on a game, just think of the possibilities for those of you who are! So keep your head down and get working, because there is money out there.

TGE in the simu-sector
When I think of Torque, I usually think of the different projects that I see weekly around here. I usually forget about are the simulation titles that are out there in the serious games sector. Perhaps it is that I have my community-blinders on, but I think that a *lot* of people miss the larger arena that game engines can fill. We get caught up in platformers and XBox 360 deployment and forget about NASA simulations.

Three excellent projects were mentioned on Wired! this last weekend.

As a brief overview (for more, go read the article!), these serious games are being used to train intelligence operatives in a number of different tasks. The three games, all developed by Visual Purple LLC teach operatives how to organize their thoughts and actions in various situations. The article also highlights some of the training issues in utilizing the serious games sector in terms of the applicability of training programs.

Shed of the Dead
No, it is not another Uwe Boll Outhouse of the Dead movie. It's my completely fabricated title for Plastic Games' zombie game being made in TGE. One of the best things is that these are guys just like a lot of us. Wait. They are us if we look a little closer:
Paul Dana, Jason Sharp, Anthony Rosenbaum, Kirk Alberts.

Wait. I know those names! Anyone who cruises the forums even a tenth as much as I do should know those names! Especially Paul Dana, who has done some of the classes for TorqueSchool. That man is *everywhere*.

TorqueSchool
Also, speaking of TorqueSchool, I just wanted to make sure that I mentioned the amazing work done on the Character Creation for ArcaneFX class. I ended up have next to no time to actually spend on the class, sadly. But I absolutely loved the documentation and wished I could have participated in the actual classes.

Note: If you're taking a class that requires 300-600 pages of reading a week with a sum total of around 200 pages of typewritten synopses, don't sign up for another class.

So a thumbs-up Seven Up to TorqueSchool!


Well, okay, I guess I'd better get out of here and let you get back to some relevent blog reads. Make sure to read the various news posts that I've made pointing to a number of things going on in the community. There's some cool stuff and some great people out there. Jump into the fray and let me know what's going on in your project. One thing I really want to do is put together an interview session with the people still involved in the DreamGames contest. Just a thought, you know, for down the road...