May 2009 Archives

Deadline was the place were I first got my feet wet with AAA game development. I can easily say that some of the guys I worked with in the R&D department, were some of the brightest and clever people I ever meet. We also had some fantastic barbeques and went swimming in the clean harbour waters during the summer. Good times!

I really hope this signal the beginning of the end of the seemingless endless row of company closings in the Danish game industry. Hopefully some of you guys that are now out of work, will release your creative energies and intelligence in new startups!

Anyway, where evere you end up, good luck in the future to all you of ex-deadliners!

One door has closed, and another one is opening. No! Actually it is more like standing in the hall of mirrors at Tivoli and figuring out what you want to do.

The story is that after some years of getting my feet wet in different game companies, I started 3 Lives Left with a friend of mine in 2007. In January 2009 the company filed for bankrupcy. There were many reasons for that, most of them having to do with us being company owners for the first time.

So what now? I currently work as a freelance programmer in a completely dfferent sector than games. In the very short term this has 2 primary benefits:

1. I can relatively quickly get  back on my feet after some years on a very tight budget
2. Getting away from the industry allows me to get some outside perspective and do a complete re-evaluation.

Conclusions so far? I'll tell you in a later post..