I’m speaking at Casual Connect Europe in Hamburg Feb 10 – 12!
I’ve been invited to run a panel and speak at Casual Connect Europe in Hamburg, Germany Feb 10-12! The subject is managing external teams and outsourcing, and I’ve got some stellar panelists lined up to discuss it all with. If you’re a game developer and you deal with art production and outsourcing, come on by [...]
Super-useful Firefox extension – App Tabs
Hello, world! I recent found a Firefox extension that’s helped me enormously in sorting out my tabs and keeping track of my most important ones. I would like to introduce you to App Tabs. In a nutshell, this lets you turn a tab into a smaller, space-saving semi-permanent tab for tabs you always have open. [...]
FRAUDS! Defriend Grace Spander and Susan Alorin on Facebook.
They appear to be recruiters creating fake Facebook profiles posing as attractive, single women interested in men, and adding people from the game industry. The best guess so far is that they’re mining game developers’ profiles for information to take advantage of for the purposes of selling to game companies and for recruiting. Myself and [...]
Tile Poker for the iPhone – support my indie game dev friends!
I am again pimping more indie game dev friends! Go check out Tile Poker for the iPhone, a clever, pretty and absurdly addictive game from Quiet Mime Studios. Only $1.99, less than coffee. Go support hard-working, worthy indie game developers! Here’s an iTunes link to download: Tile Poker (link opens in iTunes)
Awesome business information tool: TweetDeck adds LinkedIn support!
This is awesome. TweetDeck, my favorite Twitter client, now added support for LinkedIn, my favorite business development networking tool! Now you can follow your connections’ activity feeds in realtime. Every time someone joins a company, updates their profile, answers a question, updates their status, etc, Tweetdeck updates to reflect the change and it makes it [...]
Check out Crimecraft: Kingpin for the iPhone!
One of my friends, Mike Arkin at Big Boat Interactive, just released his company’s first iPhone game, CrimeCraft: Kingpin (iTunes link), a free MMO for the iPhone. I’ve been playing it in beta quite a bit and it’s a blast. It’s really reminiscient of all the fun parts of Mafia Wars, except without all the [...]
Why Twitter is awesome
I’ve been using Twitter for a couple years now and I’ve gradually gotten the hang of it. A lot of people have trouble seeing what the appeal of Twitter is, though, and it can be puzzlingly difficult to explain for some reason. Someone I know asked me to explain what the appeal is, and after [...]
Powerpoint slides from my MIGS 2009 outsourcing talk
Hello, everyone! As I told everyone at the MIGS 2009 “How To Love Outsourcing” speech, here are the slides: How To Love Outsourcing Sorry it took me until later today to post them. We were stranded in the Montreal airport for awhile yesterday and didn’t get back to Austin until really late, and I’m still [...]
I’m speaking at the Montreal International Game Summit on 11-17-09!
Good news, everyone! I’ve been invited to speak on the subject of outsourcing art at the Montreal International Game Summit on Tuesday, November 17, 2009! This should be a lot of fun. I enjoy speaking publicly a great deal, and this will be a great opportunity to meet new people, network, and to visit Montreal [...]
Comments fixed. Also, BlueHost is AWESOME.
Wow. I have no idea how long comments have been broken, but they are now fixed. Sorry about that. Total fail on my part. :( Sorry! In other news, I accidentally hosed my site completely trying to fix that. I submitted a help ticket with my hosting provider, Bluehost, and within *two minutes* they had [...]
Freelancer with extensive art management and outsourcing experience for hire!
(Hello, internets! My LinkedIn page is making the rounds of game news sites this morning, so I figure I should update.) Well, sad news. This week my project was cancelled and my studio was shut down. The top secret company I was working for was in fact 2K Games Austin, working on a prototype for [...]
Mysterious downtime.
Sorry about that mysterious downtime there for a couple days. I haven’t a clue what happened or why. Hope it doesn’t happen again. Yay!