Misc Ramblings

Well, it's time for my quarterly blog post of doom! A fair amount of stuff has happened in the 3 months since my last update, so I've got a bit to ramble on about.

Work is going well. The PSP version of FIFA is going to hit dev-beta this week (which means 0 bugs) and will hopefully be declared beta for real later this week after we hold 0 bugs for a couple days. The Wii version will be following behind by about 3 weeks. We're almost done, which is always a bit exciting. The next step is finding out what I'm working on next, getting a bit of comp time and then waiting around while we wait for the game to make it through Sony/Nintendo.

I've decided to go ahead and make myself a timeline of having a demo of my adventure game idea ready for the end of the next round of titles at work. Then I'll present it to management and hopefully it'll be considered for the next SKU plan. It'll be an all new universe and characters, so the potential as a new IP should be reasonably high. The demo will be quite a bit of work because I'll be writing my own engine for it along with the complete toolset, but I think it will be worthwhile. Sadly I can't really say much else about it if I want it to be considered for actual production ;)

So, the new Smashing Pumpkins album is out. Thankfully, and somewhat surprisingly, it's actually pretty good. I quite enjoy it. It's amazing how it takes me right back to memories of high school, though.

Lastly, we got awesome news a couple weeks ago. It turns out that one of our good friends has been transferred back to Vancouver from way up north. He's moving back down at the end of the month. I predict many drunken Friday nights in the future since that's pretty much what happens whenever we visit him anyway!

Also, everyone say "Happy Birthday!" to my brother. He's turning 27 today (holy shit I feel old)!