Oh man the best firefight I have ever been a part of... in any game... Story: My friend and I both had an m16, pistol, and a shotgun in our backpacks and we were just leaving the airstrip we turned around and checked to see if anybody was behind us with our binoculars and saw 4 bandits come from behind just leaving the…
(Apologies for the long text, it's kinda what happens when I design things. But give it a read! Especially you, Riot-eer. ^^ It involves your trailer/concept art.) Alright, got more great ideas and direction yesterday during work, gave it the customary 'second glance' this morning to make sure it's still what I want and…
I can get behind that idea if you work for a AAA studio in a quest to crank as many iterations as possible. I can only shudder at how it's gotta be like to make YET another soldier with a rifle or musket for say Assassin's Creed or whatever other big title. But on the flip side you have stability in terms of income. I…
hahah this is one of the stupidest things a company could do, almost akin to sabotaging their own production. A friend of mine is on a team comprised with a lot of new juniors and without fail most of their work required tons of polish, re-work and they need to be monitored constantly in order to get the desired results.…
Companies cant really just sit idle and continue to pay peoples salary if they are not working for extended periods of time, they would literally be burning money. take ubisoft montreal for example, lets say the overall average of everyones at the studio is about 75k/yr if we avg across all departments. thats about 200…
Problem: Our hardware is really starting to show its age. Devs are complaining that they are tired of dealing with the bottle necks and are considering ... gasp releasing games on the PC again!? What do we do...? Resulting Brainstorming Session: Relax, I've got it all figured out. We copy the wii's success from 4 years…
Nice points KeyserSoze (even if you put a dig into my Republican ribs). They cover some points I want to remphasize. And it raises a question or two, especially on the Social Security pay in. If an illegal gets work using forged documents, with a forged Social Security number, I'm curious where the tax he pays goes. If the…
Tacoma? I wouldn't worry about your rusty Dodge, worry about someone stealing your kids or doing a drive by on your house. Tacoma has some pretty rough neigborhoods, that make Marysville look like Disneyland. The Creepiness Factor I would stay out of down town Tacoma if you can. Personally Tacoma is the one city I don't…
I am accepting 1 weapon contracts in certain cases. More often than not all the large contracts start with the completion of a 1 weapon contract. Again it is all a case by case basis. I will put it simply, this is money from my own pocket, if you have issue with how I handle my money so be it, but I have learned all of…
I can't say much about leadership in the 3d world. In the army, I learned leadership the same way you learn anything. Trial and error. You can sum it up simply as finding a way to get people to do things they don't want to do. Many ways to accomplish that, but typically aiming to inspire through example is the most…