Plan for Jeremy Alessi
by Jeremy Alessi · 10/01/2005 (12:13 pm) · 1 comments
WOW ... in less than a week I'll be flying out to Oregon for the first time ever and attending my first IGC and really my first game industry type event other than a few IGDA meetings in Washington D.C.
Needless to say I'm super excited about the whole thing! I can't wait to meet everyone that's helped me out over the last 2 years here at GG and hopefully even my partner Adrian Tysoe who's been working on the art side of things for Leadfoot Productions since the Aerial Antics. Kinda funny to work with someone for over 2 years, complete 2 games, and never even talked on the phone! I feel like I know him almost as good as one of my brother's who live in NY though!
Anyway, we've got some decent stuff to bring with us to IGC I think. I don't really want to talk too much about them as I'd rather have it be a surprise ... or maybe I just don't want to try and hype anything up. The new games we're bringing are all very rough around the edges but will be fully playable. I don't expect we'll be done with our big Torque project until possibly spring 2006 but we have something else in the works that will be complete before that.
One other thing I have to say ... is that I'm getting closer and closer to my childhood dream of owning a HUGE room full of computers. Now I've got an LAN in my room with 3 PC's and a Mac hooked up. It's amazing how much more productive you can be developing games with so many machines to rely on.
For example I used to test all multiplayer games with my desktop on the cable modem and my laptop hooked up to a phone line. Debugging MP games like this was a DRAG! I would have to constantly send files to the laptop via a disk or email ... etc... Now I've got this nice LAN so I just drop files on the systems I'm using to test and I can test and debug so much quicker! Even better ... you know sometimes one system just starts having an issue ... and you wonder what you did in the code to cause it? Well with another PC on the LAN I was able to quickly discover that two of my systems still worked fine and it was just the laptop that was having an issue! Man I could have been stuck trying to figure out what I did or what changed for days or weeks if I'd only had two systems to fall back on. It's just like I always thought ... the more computers the better!
Anyway, I'm not talking about anything important until IGC! I've seen tons of games being pimped around ... and typically I'm the type to do that but since there's a big event coming up I feel no need to show off what we've been doing until then. At which point people will go ... you've been holding out for that? What were you thinking! ;)
Needless to say I'm super excited about the whole thing! I can't wait to meet everyone that's helped me out over the last 2 years here at GG and hopefully even my partner Adrian Tysoe who's been working on the art side of things for Leadfoot Productions since the Aerial Antics. Kinda funny to work with someone for over 2 years, complete 2 games, and never even talked on the phone! I feel like I know him almost as good as one of my brother's who live in NY though!
Anyway, we've got some decent stuff to bring with us to IGC I think. I don't really want to talk too much about them as I'd rather have it be a surprise ... or maybe I just don't want to try and hype anything up. The new games we're bringing are all very rough around the edges but will be fully playable. I don't expect we'll be done with our big Torque project until possibly spring 2006 but we have something else in the works that will be complete before that.
One other thing I have to say ... is that I'm getting closer and closer to my childhood dream of owning a HUGE room full of computers. Now I've got an LAN in my room with 3 PC's and a Mac hooked up. It's amazing how much more productive you can be developing games with so many machines to rely on.
For example I used to test all multiplayer games with my desktop on the cable modem and my laptop hooked up to a phone line. Debugging MP games like this was a DRAG! I would have to constantly send files to the laptop via a disk or email ... etc... Now I've got this nice LAN so I just drop files on the systems I'm using to test and I can test and debug so much quicker! Even better ... you know sometimes one system just starts having an issue ... and you wonder what you did in the code to cause it? Well with another PC on the LAN I was able to quickly discover that two of my systems still worked fine and it was just the laptop that was having an issue! Man I could have been stuck trying to figure out what I did or what changed for days or weeks if I'd only had two systems to fall back on. It's just like I always thought ... the more computers the better!
Anyway, I'm not talking about anything important until IGC! I've seen tons of games being pimped around ... and typically I'm the type to do that but since there's a big event coming up I feel no need to show off what we've been doing until then. At which point people will go ... you've been holding out for that? What were you thinking! ;)
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