Wars in your company?

ebagg · May 2007

I'm guessing other game studios have simular experiences, but at mine we have a room for the character artists and animators. Everyone in the room is armed with a nerf dart gun, and occasionally work is put on hold for a few minutes as volleys of darts are exchanged, headshots talleyed up, and then back to staring at one's monitors. Anyone else have similar things going on at your job?

Lee3dee · May 2007

I have a nerf Maverick & Nerf Long shot ready at all times for when the animators or programmers come into the Level design room looking for a war

Usually we all battle it out in TrackMania on fridays.

Mark Dygert · May 2007

I've had to cleaning suction cup marks off my monitor and explain to my wife where the welts came from. We are a small company and only a few of us are armed with nerf. Most people use rubber bands (I'm a pretty good shot) or toss a well placed hacky sack around. We did play a few rounds of throw the beach ball at your neighbors head but too many action figures fell during that melee. It's mostly just us artists, other people run or watch from around the corner.

At Atari/GT/Infogrames/Humougous we had an anual water fight around this time of year with our neighbors in the business park. The local fire dept showed up twice and joined in with a truck mounted water balloon launcher, good times.

Jesse Moody · May 2007

I work at home so I just toss objects at my son. Beach balls, nerf darts, etc. It's not as fun as shooting other adults though and my wife gets mad at me.

I'm not as cool as you guys are.

Justin Meisse · May 2007

the Maverick is the gun of choice at Mythic, shootings usually occur around 6. I also have my homemade PVC nerf gun, the Widowmaker.

Entity · May 2007

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I work at home so I just toss objects at my son. Beach balls, nerf darts, etc. It's not as fun as shooting other adults though and my wife gets mad at me.

I'm not as cool as you guys are.

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but you're cool to your son

Jesse Moody · May 2007

haha the Widowmaker. Did you paint it black? You should put a black widow on it. THAT WOULD BE SICK! haha

Yeah thanks Entity and when it comes down to it thats more important to me.

ebagg · May 2007

We all have mavericks, one guy has the Firefly (smg-looking gun with glow in the dark ammo), and another has the Longshot (bigass sniper rifle)

danr · May 2007

we went all open plan a couple of years back so that sort of thing is tricky ... but in the old office standing up was often seen as dangerous, since something would generally fly towards your head (whatever was at hand, none of that pansy nerf nonsense). Then all hell would break loose.

totally unbridled and unnecessary long-range violence is quite cathartic, it should happen more often

Joao Sapiro · May 2007

cant wait to work in a studio someday and battle with rubber bands ! challenge me and ur dead.

Quaggs · May 2007

since were on the topic of nef guns, i found this re-painted longshot, and i wish i had one.

Slum · May 2007

on that note, holy CRAP:
http://nerfhaven.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7631

bearkub · May 2007

I have a nerf arsenal at home. Right now, I only have my Nerf bow at work. =]

Lee3dee · May 2007

i started to Paint my Nerf Longshot, trying to paint it like that one above, but im definately not as skills as that person

skankerzero · May 2007

the upstairs guys have Nerf wars often.
I have a Maverick and the one that shoots glow in the dark darts.

Downstairs, they have AirSoft wars.

BoBo_the_seal · May 2007

Croquet in the office, Ultimate Frisbee outside...Oh and a game I can only call koosh to the nuts!

- BoBo

ElysiumGX · May 2007

Nerf guns were banned in my office after one of the girls complained to management (management started it).

greenj2 · May 2007

Holy damn those nerf paint jobs are cool. There's a lot of badass design hidden under those kiddy colour schemes...

Jesse Moody · May 2007

Man I'm telling ya if they painted nerf guns to look like that a lot more would sell.

Emil Mujanovic · May 2007

Now I need to start that kind of goodness here in the studio.
*goes out and buys a nerf gun*

-caseyjones

Justin Meisse · May 2007

I'm going to try and paint up a Maverick this weekend, I just need to set up some kind of spray painting station on my tiny balcony.

oh yeah, here's an older pic of my gun, it's slightly ghetto
linky

indian_boy · May 2007

just wondering... is there any room for BB guns? or is it all Nerf?

Emil Mujanovic · May 2007

BB Guns? HA! Cracked monitors all round!
I mentioned this thread to a few others at work, I've got people wanting nerf guns now. I'm set to get a longshot, but haven't had any luck in locating one yet. Might have to do an online purchase.

-caseyjones

Jesse Moody · May 2007

yeah i'm on the hunt now for bad ass nerf guns. So many paint jobs to come. I just got a place with a 2 car garage so all my projects can pick back up. PC Case Modding, my car, painting nerf guns now. Oh man I'm gonna be busy.

Asmuel · May 2007

Lol this thread inspired mes as well, was looking at nerf guns at the shop yesterday. No longshot either

I wants one

Jesse Moody · May 2007

well i'll keep my eyes open here in maine. not too many people buying stuff like this around here.

adam · May 2007

Can't find anywhere that ships Nerf to Canada

Emil Mujanovic · May 2007

The Hasbro site only ships within the US. The only other place I've seen a longshot is on eBay, but the shipping to Australia cost more than the actual longshot. The dude is selling it for twice the RRP as well. GAH!

-caseyjones

Miguelito · May 2007

We just play MarioKart on the DS during lunchtime. But the amount of hate and anger is quite similar to a war then

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Jesse Moody · May 2007

Well like I said I can see if I can get some of these for you guys. I'm not looking to make a profit off it. Just let me know if you are interested and I'll keep my eyes open.

I'm working on some designs for a modded gun already. I'm thinking I'm gonna add a CO2 canister to mine for that added speed / distance.

I want my dart to rip the flesh from the bodies of my victims.

Jesse Moody · May 2007

Found 5 Longshots tonight and picked up a Maverick.

Let the fun begin.

neolith · May 2007

Does anyone know where to get Nerf guns in Germany? I can't seem to locate a single dealer that sells them, not even online...

Fuse · May 2007

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Can't find anywhere that ships Nerf to Canada

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try a Toys r US adam... My friend picked up a longshot from there a while back, they ship too..

http://www.toysrus.ca/webapp/wcs/stores/...p;fs=1&ds=0

Jesse Moody · May 2007

also try hasbro toy shop. Amazon as well.

Jesse Moody · May 2007

Ok just gonna make another post since it's easier.

Places to get a longshot and other Nerf good ness.

Best place for international shipping. Amazon will only ship books, cds, dvds to some countries, but check there as well.

These guys have everything. From Star Wars to Nerf guns. Just do a search for Nerf. http://www.entertainmentearth.com

Sorry but these guys will only ship in the US. http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/

Whargoul · May 2007

Finger blasters rule:

http://www.recfx.com/

We've had some insane battles before.

ebagg · May 2007

Yeea we got finger blasters, as well as foam rockets where you fit them on a tube, shove on the other end of the tube and the rockets fly out. One dude just got the magazine-fed auto nerf gun. Very fun but your clip runs out in about 2 seconds. I think the Maverick pistol is best, easy to aim, single shot pump action, so you can be accurate and not run out of ammo quick.

Emil Mujanovic · May 2007

Thanks for the links Jesse and the help in PM yesterday. The entertainmentearth.com almost seems like a winner and seems to be the more cheaper option at present time.
Just getting clearance from the CEO and other staff before we do a mass order. PSYCHED!

-caseyjones

nkoste · May 2007

We had airzookas at my old company. You never knew when sombody was out to get you.

Jesse Moody · Jun 2007

We had airzookas at best buy for a while. Fun times. We got in trouble though because some asshat shot a hot chicks short skirt up.

Great view of her thong but no more airzooka.

neolith · Jun 2007

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We had airzookas at best buy for a while. Fun times. We got in trouble though because some asshat shot a hot chicks short skirt up.

Great view of her thong but no more airzooka.

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Ehm... isn't that what those airzookas are intended for?

Jesse Moody · Jun 2007

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Ehm... isn't that what those airzookas are intended for?

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Yeah thats what I tried to explain to my manager but he didn't go for it. He did think it was funny though but due to sexual harassment or whatever blah blah blah we had to get rid of it.

Wars in your company?

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