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January 21st.

The triumphant return of Games Night.

You should come.

Today marks the first day of me tenure as an actual paid employee of Capybara Games (as opposed to an owner who comes in to the office a lot). It also marks my first day as a producer on a game. I spent much of it in bed due to working until 5:00am last night testing and tweaking levels for another game.

I am not being sarcastic when I say that I love my job.

This article makes me very happy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/magazine/04coach.html

It is about a college football coach who appears to have, for lack of a better word, hacked the game.

I don't like football all that much. I don't really watch sports at all, but this stuff makes me grin ear to ear. I am in love with the idea that the world is full of things that hide beneath their surfaces new and exciting solutions that are totally unlike the accepted plan. I love cleverness and ingenuity and I love that there's still so much left to figure out.

(I found this on the Freakonomics Blog by the way)

Dear Mr Ebert,

First let me thank you for jumpstarting a discussion about the relative artistic and critical merit of videogames as compared to film and books. It's not a new discussion but the attention that you devoted to it mixed with your star power has pushed it into the limelight, which can't help but have positive consequences for videogames, I think.

( I do want to take issue with one aspect of your opinon )

Why I wrote it:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/spizzy/84355.html