Archive for November, 2007

We had a super lovely “full service” evening with some of the guys. I cooked dinner, and then cut Nicholas’ and Forest’s hair. I suspect Nicholas might blog about that later, he got some pretty cool pictures on his still-shiny iPhone… that little thing can really get our interface design juices going, triggering endless discussions about Apple’s highs and lows.

Afterwards I booked tickets for me and Joachim to go to Vienna tonight (Thursday).We have a meeting most (or all) of Friday, but if someone local has time I would love to have lunch with someone from the Unity universe on Saturday. 

In any case I have to see the Secession house in Friedrichstraße 12, where I haven’t been since 1997 or so. 

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Today’s games industry has many strange and wonderful features. Its most distinguishing feature is the current dominance of technology-focused, so-called “triple-A” games at the top of the market. These shiny, spangly games command the lion’s share of the marketing money, media attention and newspaper headlines. At the other end of the industry, we have the “casual games” market, which encompasses card games like Windows Solitaire, Minesweeper, the various “Match-3″ variants and their like.

And there is almost nothing – nothing – in between.  

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