Not to be outdone, the folks at Neversoft have released a trailer for Tony Hawk's Proving Ground. EA's corporate line on TH is that they're really not the competition because our games are fundamentally different. This is actually sorta true. That said, the public loves to compare the two games in every gaming forum out there.
I get to sleep in tomorrow. I've been working a lot lately and it's been over two weeks since I've had a day off. I told my manager today I wasn't coming in until 1pm tomorrow. He was totally cool with it. I can finally watch Regis and Kelly Lee right to the end for once!
Daddy's too tired to post anything substantial tonight. Instead, let's watch one of the latest trailers from skate. I'm so busy, I haven't even been able to skate that massive ramp.
While leaving the Starbucks at the Pan Pacific at around 6pm today, I saw B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell. He was leaving the hotel and quickly got into a van. My companion, a fellow co-worker who shall go unnamed, called him "Brian".
There are probably over a dozen of my co-workers still at the studio tonight. I can say that we're trying to meet a very important deadline. The surprising thing is that I got to go home at the early time of 10pm.
So while I arrived at home slightly before 10:30pm, people were continuing to make shiny things appear on screen. I could have just relaxed, folded my laundry, and fed my pet condor but I couldn't resist logging into to my work e-mail. I checked it before 11pm and I just checked it again. There a fair number of messages to be read for that time of night.
I just need to know how things are going. As if that wasn't bad enough, I also checked the Perforce server for the submitted changelists. All work on our game is submitted via a server that can track changes for us. You can view these changes in a timeline so you can see who checked in what at what time. People usually don't read these things but I do since I can't help but be nosy about what to expect when I get back to the studio in the morning.
Last week I was at work in the evening, one of many evenings that I've been at work. Having not had some time off recently, I almost fell back into some old habits. When I'm doing lots of OT, I tend buy things on a whim, usually off the Internet. Money tends to accumulate in bank accounts when you're working lots. This behaviour started when I was a games tester. Back then, I didn't make a lot of money, so the spree buys were limited to small things.
I make a tiny bit more money now as a software engineer, which probably explains why I was about a mouse click away from buying a 37" Sharp Aquos LCD HDTV sight unseen. I thought that buying that TV certainly would make the evening much more enjoyable. Then reality decided to show up. Even if I did buy that TV, I wouldn't really have time to use it. I had no idea how the display looked. I hadn't read any reviews on this model. I didn't even know what inputs it had.
Cooler and more budget-conscious heads prevailed, so I backed off on the purchase. Instead, my George Foreman Grill is being airmailed to me as you read this.
