It has been a while.

It has been a while dear reader (and internet) since I have blogged my brains out. I should decide on some structure before I begin writing this but whatever I’ll roll with it. Ok this will be a retrospective on the last few months including GDC and the beginning of my final project. There structure.

First off GDC, O man it was so much fun. First off I got accepted as part of the conference associates program, every year 300 people are picked to help work the conference, some how I got picked. This was probably one of the greatest things ever to get picked for this. Not only did they pay for my ticket, they helped get me a hotel for dirt cheap. So what did I do as a CA. Well anything that needed done mostly I worked sessions which meant I went early to a session met the speaker and did anything they need and helped people coming to the session. This was great because I got to meet tons of great people doing this. Now I could go in depth as to what the sessions were but that was a while ago and I can’t really remember most of them. But they were all great.

In all it was a great week I met a ton of awesome people through the CA program and the conference in general. If you get a chance to be a CA at GDC do it.  Also I got to play in a charity poker tournament that lets just say everyone there was way above my pay grade and I did really well.

Since then I have been working my butt of in final project trying to make a great game. You can check the current build out using the link to the right. We have 3 months left to finish up the game and polish it up. Also I finally beat Bioshock after 4 months of playing. It was amazing very well done game, I had a few complaints here and there but in all one of the best games of last year. There are some more sweet things going on which I will write about in a later post. Until then later,

Grant

Call For Testers!!

Hey everyone, As some of you may know I am in my final project at Full Sail, this means I have 5 months to make a game with 4 other guys. So we have a pretty cool idea and we are 2 months into production and just got a very basic demo up.

So here is what this email is all about. We need testers. So what will a tester do: every few weeks we will send out an email with a link to the newest version of our game, in the email we will say specifically what we want people to test for. Then you just play the game and email us back answering the questions. Super easy, Super fun, and super helpful to us.

If you want to go ahead and check out the newest version that we have go to smashbricks.blogspot.com and click on the newest release in the top right corner.

If you are interested just email me back (include your name and email) and I will put you on the list.

Thanks guys,

Grant Shonkwiler
Project Lead
White Board Logic
smashbricks.blogspot.com

PS This is a very early version so it doesn’t look or sound pretty we know