Weekend Updates

Preparing for a game conference such as IndieGamesCon (IGC) is pretty hard work. For the past few months I have been working behind the scenes with GarageGames and various speakers to help get the art track of this session organized and thought out. Thankfully everything went pretty smoothly with the organization and we were able to get the speakers that we wanted for the session (I am speaking at the "Indie Artists Production Cookbook" session). I still need to finalize my presentation but I am hoping that won't be too hard. The real hard part has been getting my new game ready to present at the show. Aside from all the little things that you need to get done in your project you also have all the little things that you want to have done to show off too and thus my time has been pretty limited as I did development all weekend aside from a couple of breaks that I took...

Hockey was on the agenda on Friday night. It was the start of the season for my new team (the Global Devils) and unfortunately we lost 7 to 3. Your's truely had a half decent game (finding my legs after the first period) but unfortunately could only get an assist for my efforts as I was robbed on some good chances by a hot goalie. Unfortunately I miss my next game due to IndieGamesCon, so hopefully I won't lose anything between now and my next game.

Saturday evening I took my wife out for supper, I figured it would be a good thing to do since A) I am going to be gone for 5 days in Eugene for IGC so I thought it would be smart of me to take her out. We unfortunately ended up at Kelsey's for a rather bland dinner before heading out. From there we joined some friends to play a bit of Magic the Gathering while waiting for the next show time of Serenity.

Speaking of Serenity I have mixed opinions of the movie. Now let me forewarn you that I am not a Joss Whedon fan, in fact I find most of his stuff to be pretty iffy at best with a few gems that make people somehow ignore a lot of bad stuff that he does in his work. Anyways in regards to the movie, in some ways it was a pretty interesting pop corn flick that really capped off what could have been an interesting TV series (had the series not been so bland and boring with a lame mixture of western and sci-fi that is). The movie itself kept up a pretty good pace and had a lot of intersting things that the TV series just lacked. They did a decent job in the beginning of introducing the premises and character to the audience in such a way that you never needed to have watched Firefly to know what was going on, but as the movie went on it seems as though this rule was thrown out the door and they just threw a lot of stuff at you that you had to have watched the TV series to know or understand. In the end I walked out of the movie thinking that it was an OK flick but not something that I would really want to tell people to go and see.

Sunday my wife and I went out to my parents house for supper and to find out what the plans are for Thanksgiving (since its next weekend here in Canada). On our way there though we stopped by our house to see what work had been done on it. As you can see for yourself the foundation is poured and has pretty much dried. Its scary how fast they can make these things when they put their minds to it, though in many ways I will probably need to watch the house like a hawk.



I will try to post one more update before I fly out to Eugene on Wednesday for IGC.