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My aplogies once again for the down time, got a few comments from people asking what’s wrong with page, basically the old host server had issues causing the site not to load. My friend’s friend that ran the server usually did some quick fix and it would be back online, but recently it was going offline quite a bit. Anyways long story short I decided to change hosts, and actually start paying for it. So after a bit of research I went with Drem Host, so far so good and hopefully there will be no down time from here on out.

Even if the old hosting server was running I probably would not have posted anything due to work. Just finished our Alpha milestone for the next game I am working on, and the last two weeks have been a bit rough, long hours, bug fixing, etc. Funny thing is that in my two years in the industry my last few projects did have their share of crunch time but not as intenese as this, but now that I look back at those two weeks it was a good learning experience and I survived it, still a bit burned out, but in the end things worked out. I guess another reason why it has been a bit harder on me is that I have gig coming up on December 1st at Drexel University (If your in the area come on down!) and have had to drive back and forth to Philly every so often for band practice and within the next three weeks I am going to have to do three consecutive trips back and forth between Philly and Albany. The drive is not that bad, but doing a couple eight hour trips, ( four hours each way), gets a bit boring and tiresome, but what has to be done, has to be done. Without solid practice sessions the band won’t have a good gig… though I think we are doing alright and will have a good show.

Moving on, the gaming scene is getting crowded now and days as well. I got so much to play and not enough time to play the games. Recently I picked up Gears of War for PC, which looks great running on my 8800GTX, though have not played the game that much since I already own it on console. The main reason why I got the game is to make levels, right now got one in the works, not sure when it will be done but as soon as I have anything worthy to show I’ll post some screens in the near future. I also got Tony Hawk’s Proving Grounds and Guitar Hero 3 for 360 as well, both fun games, though I have some reserves about the GH 3 setlist, not metal enough, other than that it’s good. UT 3 is also on my slate of games to play and make maps for, think that comes out next week. I’ll probably crank out a UT 3 level after my Gears one, not sure if I want to do an original one or do a quick re-make of one my older releases.

What else… oh yeah, I may be going to the Game Developers Confrence again next year, this time as a speaker, with a fellow co-worker. What are we talking about? Well that’s still being sorted out, but it does focus on Spider-Man 3 DS. As soon as I find out more detials from the GDC folks I’ll make a note of it here.

Well that’s all I got for now… it’s good to be back online again!

Cheers!