Hungarian Surprise!

Unknown to me and maybe even id Software way back when, 12 years ago a couple Hungarian DOOM novels were written and released (bottom two books). Of course I know all about the English DOOM novels by Daffyd ab Hugh but these are a surprise to me.

Scans of these books are posted in my DOOM photo section.

The top two books comprise Masters of DOOM split up. The translation of the text is "DooM Legendája (Legend of DooM). Hogyan változtatta meg John Carmack és John Romero a világot (How did John Carmack and John Romero change the world)".

Thanks for the info, Timea Cseke (IMPgirl)!

OGDC Interview

I was up in Seattle last week for the OGDC conference where I was on a panel discussing development of MMOs and the panel was fielding all kinds of questions. After the panel I was interviewed by Evan, whom I've known for years.

Right now, in the news section on Gamasutra is a blurb about the interview (with link). And it's so great to see my story just under GAMECOCK's story.....LOL. So perfect.

Anyway, here's the interview.

World's Oceans In Extreme Danger

As you all know, I'm not much of an activist. I like making and playing games and being a happy consumer like you all. But sometimes you have to wake up and pay attention to what's happening in the world while we're all at home having fun playing World of Warcraft or Gears of War.

As reported on Project Censored, the world's oceans are in extreme danger (story #3) and there's very little being done to reverse the devastating warming trend that is changing everything about the planet's most vital resource.

If you can't get out there and do something directly at least you can do something in a minor way: vote for a president that will actually do something about this problem, for real. Bush is most definitely not that person, nor do I suspect, any Republican president unless I see an extreme environmental conservation strategy on the bill.

VOTE!

Slipgate Web Team

Yay! We've finally started building our web team and our VP of Web Tech spent a few seconds and reworked my original site design into something cooler.

You can check it out here.

As you can see, we're doing a lot of interviewing. This week's interview schedule has been MySQL DB Admin, Technical Director and VP of Marketing candidates. We're still hiring for Senior Programmers, Senior Game Designers, Writer and more. See the page for details.

Update on my MMORPG: it's coming along really well and the team we have is just amazingly talented and producing incredible stuff. We'll probably come out of stealth mode later this year.