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A big man in a big city

Nov 17

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Good day in the big city, amazing meetings and a lot of progress being made.  Been working out with my main man Nels every day now and feeling a great pump flowing through my body.  It was such a relief to fall asleep last night, working 20-24 hours a day for the past week, while thrilling and exciting, was an exhausting process.  As I went to my room last night at 10 and tried to do a little more work on my side of things my eyes just refused to stay open and I fell asleep with the headphones still in my ears only to wake up 10 hours later.  Feels great, we are going somewhere baby!

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Aahh, massive restructuring of Netvibes and a massive meeting

Nov 10

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Finally have netvibes working more efficiently for me. Up until today I just had all of my feeds coming into one general tab(100′s and 100′s of new stories all skewn together)  Now it is all organised into tabs for General news stories, Tech news, Game Development and then Blogs.  I think I am going to do a full article on the power of netvibes and how to use it fairly soon as it really is an invaluable tool.

Phew, just finished a 3 and a half hour meeting with my 4 lead artists for the new kids game.. We have completely sorted out the visual style for this project, or at least have a clear direction.  Very excited about that as we dove into immense detail on exactly how the foreground, framing foreground, mid ground and distant background is going to look.. I can’t wait to show off the art work for this as we are going to really create something unique and distinct here.  Something impressive enough that I feel can be made into a full blown adventure game if we decide to go down that path, it is that indepth.  I can’t re-iterate enough how amazing  it is to be dealing with such talented artists.  There is such a huge swath of diversity from them all in how the imagine this world, each as incredibly talented as the next just in a different and unique way.  A truly inspiring bunch to be working with.
Concept Work by Timo Karhula

Ha, I had my 45 minute nap this afternoon and even with a mere 1.5 hours of sleep in the past 24 hours(+3 from the day before) I feel more awake than ever.  Now I need to create the tasks and organise everyone to get them cracking ASAP here as we have a wednesday deadline to meet here for a ton of concept artwork from characters to enviro’s.  And all this on NO coffee!! Who would have figured?

I wonder how dhruv is doing with our massive feasibility study that we need done in the next few days, which reminds me after I am done with these artists tasks I get to get cracking back on general research for my proposal document and then even more research for my design document

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Oh, 3.5 hours of sleep is one thing, 45 minutes is another

Nov 10

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Today’s survival with definitely be chemically enhanced.. Mucho Caffeine in my system unfortunately and of course I used the last of the Coffee yesterday night.  I think Alex Gonzales is partly responsible for this one as the guy works pretty much as hard as I do so if I see him up then dammit I’m staying up working!  Can’t be outdone now can I?

So the Health insurance nurse was here at 7:30 to take urine samples to make sure that I am not a raging alcoholic or crack fiend as we applied for the uber low premiums because of our insane healthiness and they need to take blood and urine samples in that case before you are given them.. Good stuff.

Recording a new article on Industrybroadcast.com about optimizing the art pipeline and the more of these articles I read the more I realize I have to learn if I want to run a bloody game studio.   Shit making a game has got to be one of the most complicated processes out there and just to think there is some guy at the top that understands how each step works along the way amazes me.  I am counting my lucky stars that we will be working on a much simpler flash based childrens game first and then going for gusto with Paradise Lost as we will have a ton of learning to do and doing that learning on the kids game will be much easier than on PL.

Now I believe it is time to meditate for 30 minutes, gain some energy and power and then go out and buy another tub of Coffee.  After I am properly caffeinated I have a nice large Proposal document to work my ass off on.  I finished the concept document for the children’s title last night and I am fairly proud of it so I have high hopes for the proposal document.

I also have high hopes for the artist meeting today.  We have a meeting of minds between myself, Alex Gonzales, Roland Brown, Timo Karhula and Paul Scott Canavan.  All some of the greatest artists I have had the pleasure of working with and all coming together as a dream team of sorts to pump out this presentation package for friday!  We are going to be hasing out ideas, comparing the concept art work that was put out over the last day and a half and then finalize a final art look and feel for the project.  Should be exciting!

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My day is a sneeze(or at least 5)

Nov 6

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I have to say that Sneezing is probably one of my favourite things in the entire world.. Especially when you do more than one. For whatever reason I have settled in at 5, although it used to be 6. The way your body gets tingles all over and your entire being, your entire existence goes into that sneeze, a brief moment of nirvana. Anyways that is what today is, everything is going into today and at the end I will have tingles all over because of how good it is.

Started off amazing, actually bowed to the pressure of a cute set of brown eyes to go to bed at a decent hour after watching ‘Burn after reading’ so I am rested on my 6.5 hours of sleep, have a pot of coffee sitting hot and ready to kick some serious ass.

Before I do though there are a few things to put out there.. First I started doing holosync meditation (http://www.centerpointe.com/holosync/) today so we’ll see how that goes.. But if anything it forces me into 30 minutes of meditation a day..While the meditation isn’t as concentrated as when I sit down to simply meditate I definitely feel that it is worth it for that fact.

Second I started Yoga, and that coupled with Obama’s win I am pretty sure was a good part of why yesterday kicked so much ass.  I can’t even describe how much ass was kicked yesterday, from the moment my eyes opened to the moment sleep washed over me.  My game studio is now in talks to create a childrens game that actually could serve a noble cause in this world, the outsourcing business is doing well, IndustryBroadcast is serving it’s purpose beyond my expectations and my artists are going to be involved in something more and more amazing with each day.  That and volleyball just destroyed, insane jump servers all night, crushing every ball, it was a great great day, and today is that revisited.  Hell already it is even ahead of yesterday, if my life was a stock now would be the time to buy cause it is approaching a verticle line soon!

So today I am recording an IB broadcast, then going over emails and forum posts, probably checking stats to feed my ego, then reading over all the material that Nels sent me, taking notes and probably gong to be doing a good hour or so brainstorming directions for that.  I have to organise a meeting of minds on friday or saturday for our new project, send out emails to my designers to hopefully get them in on this, begin work on setting up the website, starting forums, a DotProject system and then a Wiki and layout the design document, the proposal document and lastly the concept document.

That should take me to noon or 1pm, afterwhich I do some work on the outsourcing front.  Call the one design company that is looking for PHP people and begin compiling the list of companies in K-town I missed the first pass as well as those in Vernon and Penticton.

Now we get to Paradise Lost, Alex is pretty much done the market which is good, have to stay on top of timo with the book design and go out to recruit some high poly modellers to create this guy for the flash presentation.  Then it is time to kick ass on the PL concept document and perhaps work into the design doc so that I can have that ready for the 15th.

All in all a day of kicking ass is to be had.  And My recommendation for tunes today is the Elder Scrolls IV Soundtrack.. Great great comositions.. Just grabbed The Gears of War Soundtrack and that is looking pretty good too

I am grateful for Rael, I am grateful for Badu, i am grateful for my focus,  I am grateful for the rain, I am grateful for my artists, I am grateful for my path, I am grateful for my dedication, I am grateful for my creativity, I am grateful for my passion, I am grateful for Dhruv, I am grateful for India, I am grateful for Nels, I am grateful for Dave, I am grateful for Kathy, I am grateful for Tony, I am grateful for Cory, I am grateful for my family, I am grateful for my energy, I am grateful for my drive

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