Arcade Berg aka. "Learning Game Design with Arcade Berg"

My first – Gifts!

Yesterday I got a christmas gift from Bobby (http://www.bobby.se/, 18/12-08), the company GRIN has had help from for some storyboarding. Terrific guys, really! Friendly, funny and humble! Oh, and skilled, if that matters?

More on that in a bit.

When you're into gaming, which you most likely are since you're reading this you often like gaming apparel. Clothes picturing your favorite game, symbols representing your interrest. I myself buy gaming stuff. I have an Umbrella Corp. keychain, Mario bed sheet, the Big Daddy figurine from Bioshock, GTA cloth poster and so on and so on.

So when I started at GRIN I immediately hoped I'd get a nice GRIN or Bionic Commando T-shirt. I didn't... Still haven't. I'm still down about that... BUT I got a pair of GRIN socks! My favorite socks, of course!

Getting gaming stuff for free is heaven! I haven't gotten much yet (I'm in no way complaining), but everytime feels like christmas! Continueing the clothes-category, I got a sweet GRIN-hat a few weeks ago. I wear it everyday. It keeps my ears warm but it ruins my hairstyle...

Keeps me warm and awesome

A few months ago I got a GRIN Qpad Mousemat too. I'm getting it signed by the people at the office and giving it to a friend. I gain +1 in coolness by doing that.

Those are the stuff I've got so far and they are all greatly appriciated!

But back to the gift from Bobby. This one is by far the best one, because it's somewhat special. Only a handful of people at GRIN got one as thanks for the help earlier in the project and that's really neat to be remembered and thanked. It's not "just" another "give one to each and everyone"-gift.

The gift was great as well, a Limited Edition by Bobby Sleepies. High quality boxers with a nice "Limited Editioj by Bobby"-tag on. Even the box was fancy.

Limited Edition, sweet!

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm very happy with all this. But I can't help but to get very, very, very jelous of David Jaffe, the creator of God of War among other good games. He gets free stuff, oh my god!

Jump 4min and 45sec into this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Xivk_UGD0 (18/12-08)
Or check it out at his blog http://davidjaffe.biz/ (18/12-08) in the "ONY PSN COMMERCIAL IS GOOD & DANGEROUS + BOX O GAMES!" post from December 17th.

I do not pity that guy...

I'm pretty damn sure that getting cool stuff for free will never get boring!