Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Job updates

Zac got a job working as a producer with XBox in Seattle!!

I'm crazy excited for him, and quite stoked that he's found a job that he wants in the city that he wants. I feel slightly guilty for slowing down on job applications myself, but I'm planning on ramping up my applications after I finish my website. I've long since finished designing the layout, and am slowly trudging through the content. It's more difficult than I thought, but I feel that it's quite excellent. I have 3/5 main pages done, and the two easiest are left for last. I plan to be done before I head to Florida next week for the Serious Games Showcase.

Today I went down to Disney to interview for a Multiplayer Lab Technician position. I was hesitant at first, but after interviewing it really sounded like the kind of job I'd really like, coordinating people's efforts and communicating between lots of different people and whatnot. I'm excited at the potential, but I've developed pretty thick skin in case I never hear back.

I need to start getting ready for that Serious Games Showcase thing...

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Steam Greenlight

So, it looks like Cyber Heist is finally getting ready to be on Steam Greenlight.

By "ready", I mean that our entire team has finally agreed to start the process. Cyber Heist has had a lot of trials in the legal area, mostly because the default legal structure for the game is 14 separate sole proprietors. It's very difficult to get anything done.

Really, as long as the decision to give decision-making powers to the LLC is made once, the headache of getting a 14-way contract signed never has to be dealt with again, and we can actually start to do things with Cyber Heist. Unfortunately, we just passed the one-year anniversary of when I started trying to make this happen. There are certain people who really don't want a company to be formed around Cyber Heist, and it only takes one person in a 14-way contract to break the deal.

I'm really not sure if it'll ever happen. I suppose the lesson that I've learned from all of this is "choose your teammates wisely".