My first – The Trailer
After the Terminator-game I'm working on had been announced I was indeed happy, but then the next urge presented itself.
I wanted people to SEE what I was working on!
When were we gonna release some sweet screenshots of the game, or even better; a trailer? It would take about three weeks before that happened. When we heard that the first trailer was gonna be shown at the Spike Awards I was yet again psyched!
I hadn't seen it myself untill it arrived at Gametrailers.com.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/43638.html SD-version
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/43637.html HD-version
(Movies available 18/12-08, embedded in "My Game - The Trailer", http://arcadeberg.com/projects/my-game-the-trailer/ )
Every morning when I get to work I browse to Gametrailers to see what's new while starting applications, during breaks, etc. When Terminator was there on the start page my smile reached from ear to ear.
After watching the trailer I was both extremly pleased and very disappointed. I was disappointed because there were moments when I thought "No, why did they show that instead of that.", "Why did they do it like that?" and "What were they thinking?!". But at the same time I was really happy with it. It looked good, showed off some enemies, some gameplay and the graphics. What more could I ask for?
Now when people want to know more about the game than the title, they watch the trailer. They can get something tangible!
It was great fun reading the comments for the trailer afterwards, as described in my post "My first - Reading the comments" (http://arcadeberg.com/causerie/my-first-reading-the-comments/ , available 18/12).
I bet that with every trailer that comes with every game I'll ever work on those good and bad feelings will reappear. Of course it could have been better and of course it's still nice to show it!
I spy... A Swedish Terminator?
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!
My first – Announcing the game
When I was hired "back in the days", of course I'd signed an NDA, a contract forbidding me from talking about the game we're making.
The secrecy in some ways feels really cool. It might be the child in me, but it's nice to know that you know something everyone around you wanna know. And of course it feel cool to say:
- Sorry, I can't tell you.
But often it was annoying not being allowed to talk about it. Of course I wanted to tell all my friends that I was working on Terminator. It's friggin' Terminator!
Me, as well as many of my friends at work waited everyday for it to be announced. Where? When? How? When can I finally tell people!?
Then BANG, the game was announced on November 20th by Warner Bros. And let me tell you, it felt gooood! Shortly thereafter people starting contacting me on Skype and stuff like that. Some saying congratulations while some asked if that was the game I was working on. Being able to say "Yes" was such a relief!
Today when people ask what game I'm working on, instead of saying "I can't say" I'll say "A new Terminator-game" and people then immediately understand what I'm talking about.
I'm guessing it will be just as bothersome not being able to tell anyone about my next project either and I also think that the announcement of that project, whatever it is, will be just as exciting.
Do you really get "used to it" so it's not that big of a deal anymore? Actually, I hope not. I enjoy getting pumped for these kind of things!
I'm working on Terminator!
Something is not quite right...
My first – The blog serie
I just had a splendid idea!
"My first" is a serie of blog posts I'll post on this blog. Since I'm new in the gaming industry, there will be a first of everything. When that happens, I'll post about it here. The Title of the post will be "My first - [X]" and I'll tag it with the "my first"-tag, so you can easily find all of them by either searching or selecting the tag.
I've edited the "My first - Reading the Comments" post so it fit this new template. I'll immediately write two My first, posting one tonight and one tomorrow!
What do you think of the idea? Please let me know by commenting.
My first – Reading the comments
I'm so incredibly happy that the Terminator Salvation Game has been announced, so I can finally talk about what I'm doing. Well, at least what game it is.
I've been psyched about the recently released trailer as well, so people would finally get to see it! Of course, since this is my first game within the professional industry it's extra special. First announcement, first trailer (see earlier post) and let's not forget, the first time for me to read about what other people think of the game!
Today (or yesterday, depending on if you base it on the time or sleep/wake-cycle) I've read all the comments for the trailer on Gametrailers.com, all 39 pages (now it's 43 pages). It was an amazing feeling. People are speculating, complementing, trashing, hyping, complaining, praising the game at the same time!
I find it awesome that the trailer has had over 100'000 views and over 1000 people has voted, rating it at an average 8.4.
I really took notice of how "everyone is an expert" on Gametrailers and how everyone has to be better than the previous one. People are sure the game is running on Engine X, while some are saying it's running on Engine Y. Meanwhile, someone else is sure it's using the Engine Z. They can't all be right, can they? Is anyone of them right? They say the game looks like Gears of War, Fallout 3, Uncharted, Resistance and pretty much every other game you can think of.
Based on a few seconds of gameplay the users there seems to know everything there is to know about the game. Simply amazing.
About 1/8 comments seem to be written by someone not just out to flame, trash or be a "keyboard tough guy".
My favorite comment though is from "MasterDarknessx", in response to the following from "alfredofroylan":
Hooray another futuristic shooter. Well at least this one has a nice character the T-800
MasterDarknessx response was:
it 2018 dumb fuck there is no t-800 yet, that was a t-600
It's nice with Terminator-fans out there. If he's right or not, I won't say.
For me this is all very cool. I haven't been in "the biz" long enough not to be juiced up by these things. I can't wait for more press-stuff, previews, reviews, sales and being able to say: "I helped make that."
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