THE ISLAND OF MAN GAME COMPANYS!!!

rawkstar · Feb 2005

OMG H4x

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=5005

SO WHO's GOING??? I say we all just pack up and go to the ISLAND OF MAN!!! Make it into the GAMEDEVELOPERS COUNTRY!!!

rolfness · Feb 2005

Hmm I wonder if they give incentives for titty bars .. I'd love to set one up ...

Soul_Reaper · Feb 2005

Wow, you know I didn't actually realise that the Isle Of Man was an independant country.

I just thought it was part of the UK or something.

But still, 100% broadband coverage with free broadband access for individuals and businesses? Sounds like they're doing something right over the UK.

hawken · Feb 2005

they should move climax out there and make more bike racing games

MoP · Feb 2005

Heh, pretty cool. Anyone remember the "We're from the Isle of Man!" sketches in the Fast Show? That's probably why I wouldn't go there

rawkstar · Feb 2005

HAHAHA I'm from the ISLAND OF MAN!!! BITCHEZ KNEEEL!!!

MoP · Feb 2005

Isle. Isle.

Jeff Parrott · Feb 2005

Is that is place that some nut job just went to the island and founded? If so I'm in.

I still think it would make a great name for a really overweight wrestler too.

JKMakowka · Feb 2005

Do they have an airport with cheap flights?
Sounds like a really cool place to start your own little independant gamedev company.

rawkstar · Feb 2005

HELL YEAH!!! thats what I'm talking about! Now all thats needed is some decent coders and off we go.

Mark Dygert · Feb 2005

I can forget about amassing enough cash to buy my own island and turn it into my own little paradise. It looks like that has been done for me! Oh wait its in a part of the world that has worse weather than I have now... Do you think we could get them to relocate their island of Man farther south, say... to the equator? Then put in a theme park and a hooters?

rawkstar · Feb 2005

hmm I'm sure that can be arranged...

MoP · Feb 2005

I don't think the Isle of Man has an international airport

You could get the ferry there from the UK mainland...

rawkstar · Feb 2005

DAMNIT!!! lol

honestly tho, who cares? its the ISLE of man we're talking about here, they do have an airport, I doubt its international, but thats not a big deal, I'm guessing its not too far from the rest of civilized brittain or what have you.

hawken · Feb 2005

http://www.isleofmantravel.com/

Wells · Feb 2005

sweet. now i can stalk all you artists at one convenient location.

what lures coders out from their caves?

adam · Feb 2005

Isle. The ISLE of Man.

sundance · Feb 2005

the isle of man is a self-governing territory of the UK, much as the channel islands and gibraltar and the falklands are.

RageUnleashed · Feb 2005

Ok this is embarassing, but before this I had not even heard of the place... but if was to become a developer's haven, I'm swimming there!!!

Toomas · Feb 2005

Isnt it full of rather rich people? I think Nigel Mansell used to live there because they dont have speed limits outside towns

bearkub · Feb 2005

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Hmm I wonder if they give incentives for titty bars .. I'd love to set one up ...

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we have told you 100 times before, no one wants to see your bare chest rolf, so stop trying.

PaK · Feb 2005

What about women...how would we get hot single women there? If there isnt a large number of chics on this island I'm not going *puts foot down*

joolz8000 · Feb 2005

Housing looks pretty spendy. Yeah- I'd say this place is already inhabited by rich folks. Like Sting, maybe. How about Hawaii (big island)? Or someplace like the Virgin Islands?

Slayerjerman · Feb 2005

Its the ISLE OF MAN!!! That implies no girlz allowed.

Im sure they got a sign or something that reads "no gurlz".

Soul_Reaper · Feb 2005

The Isle Of Man is not part of the UK, or the EU for that matter, though it does commission the UK government to represent it internationally and handle its defence.

This page will explain more about the politics of the island.

Mark Dygert · Feb 2005

Its a tiny island but I think its the one in the far back not the one in the front. They where lazy and pulled it off of google, as that pic is the first thing to pop up in a google image search... And I think any hot chicks would have to be flown in. Dried up old English fishermen is about as "hot" has they seem to have. But hey if they toss out this kind of incentive program for bussinesses what will they toss out when the start to run low on women? Its not really a concern for me because every Vig action figure comes with a lovely wife

If you go to the Isle of man offical site you'll see there is MUCH more to the island and it is a different shape.

http://www.globalgeografia.com/europa/man.jpg

http://www.iomguide.com/images/sea-routes.gif

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~dwkneen/Celts/isle%20of%20man.gif

http://www.erinartscentre.com/about_us/isleofman.html

hawken · Feb 2005

I'm there, whos with me?

Island of man 4evar

rawkstar · Feb 2005

lol yep I'm there too brotha

adam · Feb 2005

I'm there right now.
*takes another hit*

kleinluka · Feb 2005

at least spell it right... it's ISLE OF MAN. Not ISLAND. YAAAARGH.

What I found most hiliarious about the news post on Gamasutra is the title "ISLE OF MAN LOOKING FOR GAME DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES" and a picture of a totally blank and empty island next to it....

rawkstar · Feb 2005

hahahaha man wouldn't that be fucking awesome... this tiny little completely empty island?

Badge · Feb 2005

hell yea. and every 3rd tuesday is mini-mardi gras night.

THATS how you get chicks to populate the island.

in reality it seems like an extremely efficient place to set up a business. less traffic, environmental distractions, and everything is relatively close.

it does suck that its so far north by the UK

Gmanx · Feb 2005

I'm there right now - no, really. I work at Island Studios, the Island's movie studio, for a company which used to make TV animation and now does modelling/animation for games companies. People from the Island are called Manx, and my first initial is G, hence G-manx.

Daz · Feb 2005

Cool Gmanx. For everyone that doesn't realise it, The isle of Man is an island internationally famous for its annual motorcycle race http://www.iomtt.com/ so no, it aint that silly little patch of land in the gamasutra shot.

How's the weather Gmanx?! I would actually consider this the more I think about it and the more I look at the incentives. I need a fresh start. It isn't too long on the ferry to the UK is it?

rawkstar · Feb 2005

HOLY CRAP!!!

we got a real live manx person, this is cool, so whats it like man?

Daz · Feb 2005

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so whats it like man?

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What mr_Rockstar actually means here of course, is are there any ladies, or just sheep? ;-p

rawkstar · Feb 2005

MMMM SHEEEEEEP!!!

Gmanx · Feb 2005

There's lots of ladies (and sheep), and with a fast-growing financial sector, some of them look damn hot in their business suits.....the ladies that is.....

The TT races are of course the high point of the year, and the Island is billed as the 'road racing capital of the world'.

The weather here is OK at present, and we have a few guys over from L.A, working on a new kid's 3d animated series - and they want to stay, so it can't be all that bad. Compared to the states and even the UK our level of crime is a lot lower, and we do have most modern distractions - cinema, night clubs and such. There's no speed limit on the TT course, so we get a lot of motorcycle tourist traffic - pretty much all year round.

I moved here with a job placement 13 years ago, and thought 'what a fantastic place to raise kids', so I stayed.

Rick Stirling · Feb 2005

"The TT races are of course the high point of the year, and the Island is billed as the 'road racing capital of the world'. "

Pah! Thats Northern Ireland you are thinking of, boy!

Gmanx · Feb 2005

.....nope definitely IOM!!!!

Check the new TT superbikes game out soon, the course is pretty accurately modelled.

That little island you can see in the gamasutra article is called 'the calf of man' and is an uninhabited bird sanctuary. It's only about a quarter of a mile across.

Josh_Singh · Feb 2005

so who are the game companys over there and where do I apply?

Daz · Feb 2005

I think the idea from the Manx govt. is that we have to start one.

Josh_Singh · Mar 2005

sombody start one! hire me with complete relocation package.

adam · Mar 2005

I'm there right now!

Gmanx · Mar 2005

There is a games company over here, which I do a lot of graphics work for - and some modelling/texturing, they're called Inca Gold, and I bet no-one here ever heard of them. They're a low budget outfit, but they have big plans.

Mark Dygert · Mar 2005

Stop with your "magical island of gaming" talk. Such places don't exist. That is what I say when I rock myself to sleep every night since I read that article. At least that is what I have to tell myself, to keep me from trying to procure loans, up root my family and subject a few hundred people to my style of management.

For everyones sake that article was a hoax =P

Gmanx · Mar 2005

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Stop with your "magical island of gaming" talk. Such places don't exist. That is what I say when I rock myself to sleep every night since I read that article. At least that is what I have to tell myself, to keep me from trying to procure loans, up root my family and subject a few hundred people to my style of management.

For everyones sake that article was a hoax =P

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I'm living in a hoax????

SHEEEIT

I'm just part of a practical joke?

well.....OK, as long as the paychecks keep rollin' in.

killingpeople · Oct 2005

i hear you get an internet connection if you plug a cat5 into the sand.

Rick Stirling · Oct 2005

SEVEN MONTHS?

Mark Dygert · Oct 2005

I know Halloween is right around the corner but do we really need to go digging up dead threads?

/me ducks as Harl tosses a molitove cocktail on this thread and laughs as it burns.

Gmanx · Oct 2005

This thread is as dead as the Island's night life. Jeez, I've moved jobs since then. INTO A GAMES STUDIO HAHAHAHAHAHA

THE ISLAND OF MAN GAME COMPANYS!!!

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