Plan for Pascal "decoy" Bos

(for the once not interested in bull shit story’s please skip to the last paragraph, it says it all. You miss out on a great story though)

WOW here it is my first plan. Thinking about it, it is actually a bit late I have been around here for almost 5 months now and normally I can’t say that I’m short of plans or idea’s, so it really beats me why I haven’t done this any earlier. I better get started, so strap in and hold tight, be prepared for a good dose of mind blowing stupidity topped with some healthy humour and served with grammar and spelling mistakes on the side. This is going to be a wild ride, welcome to the Dutch side………

Ok let me start with giving a little overview of the past 5 months and how I got here, FLASHBACK. Picture your self this apparently normal Dutch dude who is living with his girlfriend in the historical centre of one of the smaller cities in the Netherlands named Dordrecht. If you pictured a fairly handsome dude your on the right track, he is me Pascal Bos, 28 years old blessed with a great imagination but doomed with a never resting urge to CREATE. Yup that’s me, returning from work that day, rain poring down. The wet streets are reflecting the dim streetlights, old typical Dutch buildings which slightly hang over the street look at me with eyes made from windows which are the borders between the cosy family life on the inside and hard wet and cold reality on the outside, it’s Autumn. Once again I had to park my car way back in the street resulting in a 5 minute cold walk home. I curse the authorities responsible for parking policies for not making enough parking places, I curse the costumers of all the snack bars and kabab shops for taking my parking place, I curse my job for making me get home late once again, I slip and almost fall, I curse the dog responsible for that…… There in the distance I can recognise it through the rain, I start to walk faster and arrive at my icon of hope, the one thing that can help me out of this mess. It’s large, it’s wood, it’s dark green, it is the door that will lead to the stairs which will elevate me above all misery, which will take me to piece of mind, to harmony, a higher place, a place I call home, it’s on the second floor. I stick the key in the key whole and turn… creativity flames up I’m getting closer to the few things that give pleasure and that are the corner stones of what I call a happy life…

I enter my house and greet my imaginary dog just to annoy my girlfriend, from the couch she just lifts an eyebrow “Glad your home, your late again I have already eaten” she say’s. I grumble about work a bit while putting my food in the microwave and wonder why woman can keep amazing me with their ability to make you feel good and bad at the same time. Good because she is glad I’m there, bad because she makes me feel I deliberately was late for dinner again. I stopped trying to understand it years ago but the amazement keeps returning. We do the normal chit chat and talk about work a bit while I eat. I’m trying hard to stay focused, my mind is going crazy and screams for creation, life of an artist is hard, life for his/her partner is probably harder.

I kick start my comp, lights start to flash, a voice from under my desk calls of the USB ports while they are getting plugged, damn I hate that voice in my Trust USB hub. Than when Uncle Bill’s excuse for an OS finally decided to let me do my stuff, creativity reaches it’s climax and I drift of in some sort of trance. I start my browser and go straight to my current project’s forum to check out progress….. Pure irritation kicks me back to real life totally scaring of the joyful feeling I had before… Once again no progress and a lot of bickering amongst each other, I should have known… time to move on, but what?? What can I do??? A happy O-Oh from ICQ, Defiant on the other side, let’s see what he has. Hmmmm making a game, V12 engine??? Never heard off it. Well to make a long story even longer Def and I had been talking about trying to find a game engine and try to make something our selves months before that it just never worked out mainly because we couldn’t find the right engine and now we did.

Well that’s basically how I ended up here. Ok, ok I dramatised it a bit and I actually don’t know if it was raining but it sounded nice didn’t it???? I have learned a lot since I signed up here, most of it from Joe actually but also a lot of stuff from the forums. So every one who helped me thanx again, it was and still is appreciated…

Well as for my plan hmm don’t know, I’m an artist, a worker if you please… I don’t have great plans for making big ass MMORPs or FPS or what ever, I just do what people ask me and try to do it good. I don’t have illusions of being in the game biz any time soon if ever, I’m not here to make money and I’m not here to change the world. I’m just here to have some fun doing what I like doing, creating stuff. So don’t expect to find any groundbreaking news in my plans in the near future, you probably will find some more bullshit though and probably some progress reports on what I am working on, but that’s it.

So the plan basically is keep on doing what I am doing. Make concepts models and animations for both Freewing and Captain Zap. I will keep you all up to date when I have something to tell you or when I just want to bore you all to death with one of my bullshit story’s.

Hope you all enjoyed it like I did, if not, I’ll try harder next time =O).

Pascal