Back From GDC

It has been quite a week! Coming back from GDC with great news, getting super sick the day I had to come back, catching up with Warm Gun on what we have to do next, speaking to the iphone team about what we plan on moving to next and sending followup emails to people I met at the conference.....whew.

Warm Gun got some AWESOME publicity at GDC. We recently announced our game to the public with a trailer available at www.warmgungame.com and have chalked up over 12,000 views over the weekend on our youtube channel!

I have also started doing much more in depth research into FPS games and have been trying to link gamer opinions directly to small statistical studies carried out by myself and a few friends regarding the genre. I will be posting the results as soon as they are done.

After speaking to some awesome people at GDC I have also started delving more into Hansoft and familiarizing myself with it as much as possible. At the moment Warm Gun has been using CodeSpacesSVN.

So much to do....lets start cracking! More info coming soon!

Home for the holidays...

Well it has been some time since I have made a post. I am currently still working on the Warm Gun Project but have also been asked to produce a new title coming to the iphone early in the year called It Came from the Moon!

We are currently using Unity 3D for this ICftM. In a nutshell it is a top-down shooter with a 1950's style sci-fi element. We plan on using cheezy (and funny) names and enemies.

I came home to Trinidad for the holiday's and visited my folks. There was so much food, I think I put on about 5 pounds. This coupled with the junk food I have been eating while beasting Cataclysm has also been a culprit to my added weight. All this will return to "normal" when I head back to Orlando.

The downtime with the family was welcomed and I am ready to return to work with batteries recharged and guns blazing!

Will post more about ICftM in the near future....

Updates, Updates...UPDATES!

What is new with me: I have graduated with my Masters in Game Production, finally received my work permit for the US (Only took 5 years and 4 degrees to be recognized) and am in the process of job hunting for an Associate/Assistant Production or Project Management position in the Game Industry.

Of course I am keeping myself busy. While working with Warm Gun I have familiarized myself with a new proprietary software SVN called Code Spaces . I am also in the works with a small team to produce a title for the iphone using the free Unity 3D tool while familiarizing myself even more with JIRA and Confluence. This should be interesting.

Please keep checking my blog. It is about to explode with new information from......TODAY!

Custodial Carnage goes GOLD

Today is the day! After 5 months of HARD work Random Encounter presents CUSTODIAL CARNAGE to the.......WORLD! Correct, we have a LIVE stream at 1pm EST showing our presentation. Pressure much? Maybe, but that is where we thrive isn't it? ;)

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fs-game-presentations

Thesis done! Early defense complete!

My thesis has been successfully defended one month ahead of regularly scheduled defense! The thesis focuses on examining the cohesive qualities of team members through the use of multiplayer games. Check it out! Halo fans will love this one!

WARM GUN is a GO

Some awesome news! I have been recruited by the WARM GUN team

http://emotionalrobots.com/games

The team was a FINALIST in the Make Something Unreal competition, and are working hard to really make an impression this year.

Currently we had video's of the Warm Gun mod available at China's GDC in EPIC's booth, VERY COOL! and are en route to have something "special" for GDCC in October. Be SURE to be checking that out!

Will post more details soon!

Moving to GOLD

Random Encounter is moving to Gold! With Beta all wrapped up and complete the team is putting the final touches on Custodial Carnage before it is "shipped". Final cut-scenes are going in, lighting is being reworked, ricochet is now SUPER awesome and MORE fun and essentially everything is just pretty!

Be sure to check out our Gold Presentation LIVE stream coming soon followed by our FINAL GOLD build.