Oh how I neglet my Livejournal.

As I have already told Google+ and Facebook (as Carl de Visser), and even Twitter (QarldeV), I now have a job with Grinding Gear Games, working on Path of Exile. I will be doing game design, and whatever other tasks come up now they are frantically busy after a closed beta launch.

I start there on 12 September, which ( Read more... )

In 2010 I mostly played games with a long horizon of learning, and something resembling a competitive scene.

This was a big deal for me. I found this quite emotionally hard. One attraction with Euros is that it isn't that hard to become quite good at them. Playing a game that is harder to learn, and which punish weakness at the game harshly was hard ( Read more... )

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This morning I went to Public Acta. A very worth while event, I wish I had been at the whole thing. I did see much of the document creation at the end of the day online, and I suspect the document posted tomorrow would be something worth signing my name to. I dislike the ACTA treaty on a number of levels, but one of the big ones is I really dislike ( Read more... )

I need a good way to explain Endeavor to people I don't know.

Twice last night someone I know mentioned to someone I don't know about the game, and asked me to explain it.

I don't have a ready answer to that, so when I want to sound enthusiastic about I come across as a bit doubtful.

I need a precanned social answer. Any ideas from friends out

Some quick notes about recent books I have been enjoying:

Not Safe for Work by Emma Hart.Disclaimer on this one, Emma is a friend, and was kind enough to send a copy (I bribed with a copy of Endeavor, which she was due anyway for proof reading). Excellent essays, and somewhat safer for work than her online essays, that tend to have links to ( Read more... )

I am currently very frustrated that I still don't have my copies of Endeavor. They were being sent through the local distributor. When some of the shipment got damaged he favoured his customers, which makes sense for him, but not for me. So Jarratt and I seem to be some of the few hardcore gamers without a copy of our own game ( Read more... )

Advance copies of Endeavor were shipped to Gencon and Wellycon ( Read more... )

Some initial testing of the game has been done, and now I want too the very few bits that worked and redo everything else.

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The next stage of the game project is to get a working prototype for self testing by the end of Monday. That is harsh time frame, in case anyone was unsure. So with that in mind, here are my expanded ideas for the project. This is copied from the corse forums, so you get yet another brief intro, and possibly some odd formatting ( Read more... )