Archive for September, 2008
20/09/08: Creative Concepts presents…
Posted by Rockjaw in Events, Nerd Alert, Personal, Weird self portraits on September 17th, 2008
The soon-to-be-unemployed Creative Concepts team is very proud to present our swansong event… organised, as usual, with not nearly enough time.
Prepare for awesomeness!!!
What a difference…
… a day makes.
Yesterday I had two things confirmed: my redundancy payment (yay!) and my last day at NCsoft (boo!). What I didn’t have was any immediate work coming in and not much to keep me busy.
Today I got hired for a month-long freelance job, and offered potential consulting work for a to-be-specified period as well. So I know now what I’ll be doing come Monday morning, and it’s not lying around in bed. (I won’t spoil it yet either, but it is games related, it does involve an event… but it’s nothing to do with NCsoft. Puzzle that out.)
I’m relieved, obviously; there will now be money coming in where previously there would just be savings getting depleted. However, I won’t be getting complacent. The search for the next challenge goes on.
At the same time, as things wind down at work, and people make their final choice of whether to stay or go, I’m trying my best to keep spirits up, to advise where I can – and to help people exit with dignity and grace. They deserve that much.
Beyond that; Saturday’s coming together. You’re advised to get to Brighton early. Say 2pm or so. It’s going to be a large one.
Saturday night’s alright
Posted by Rockjaw in Nerd Alert, Personal on September 15th, 2008
Just a quick one here. First things first: man, Judge Dredd does not age well as a film (it’s on TV as I type). Although I still do think the costumes are… kinda good, at times. Screw it, it’s an excuse for a picture of Stallone:
Wait: did I say the costumes looked… good..? Read the rest of this entry »
Want to come to a party?
We’re planning one last blowout for NC folk – but we’d like you to come, too. Yeah, you. (I forgive you for that thing you did one time….)
We don’t know where it might be, except ‘in Brighton’ is a good guess, and I would expect it’ll be next weekend (Saturday 20th is a good guess, although possibly Friday, too). It’s looking likely that for most (if not all) of us affected by redundancy, Thursday or Friday will be our last day.
So, y’know, want to come to the pub? After all, you guys and gals are part of what made our jobs so good over the last few years. We’d love to see you.
More details to follow – but let me know your views, okay? And spread the word… I don’t want to be standing around with a pint, alone.
Set the Stage videos
Posted by Rockjaw in Community, MMO-related, Pimpin' on September 13th, 2008
Almost the last hurrah, this. Below the ‘cut’, if you will, you’ll find two videos that I edited and subtitled (well, except for the actual translation). Both were shot by Jörg ‘Kerensky’ Koonen during the Games Convention in Leipzig.
They’re performances of the winning entries for Set the Stage, the competition that we ran to get players to write scripts for the Aion and Guild Wars characters to perform. (The scripts were reworked by me to become suitable for performance, but these two are quite similar to the original material, with many lines remaining intact. You can download my script drafts for all six final entries at the official Aion and Guild Wars sites.)
The sound quality is not excellent – source was basically the speakers on the stand, which had to compete with everything around – so I’ve embedded the ‘normal’ and English subtitled versions. (There are also French and German versions of each – see below.)
As I said before, these stage performances were probably what I was most proud of achieving during Games Convention. Trust me; there were some obstacles to overcome! However, I personally feel the performances were excellent, given the lack of rehearsal time we had and the environment they were performing in, and I’m very proud to present them to you.
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