This morning I woke up hearing that Steve Jobs had died. It has hit me surprisingly hard. Why grieve over the death of someone I never met? Someone who had his dark sides? Who made products that are not perfect? Someone who we all knew was not doing well, health-wise? Why grieve over the death [...]
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Posted 06 October 2011
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Today is my first day off in what feels like a very long time. As you may or may not know, I co-organized Stagconf, a one-day conference on storytelling and games, together with my wonderful wife Andy Schmoll and our good friend Harald Eckmueller. Like the best of adventures, it seemed like a good idea [...]
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Posted 02 October 2011
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My wife and I just got back from Game Forum Germany (GFG), a small game developers’ conference that takes place once a year in Hannover, Germany. Just like last year, it was an amazing experience. Sadly, I missed the opening keynote by Martin Schwiezer on AAA development in Germany, but I was able to squeeze [...]
On the 14th of January 1991, I started my first day of work at Thalion Software, a small and long defunct game development studio in Gütersloh, Germany. Which means that today I have worked in the games industry for 20 years. Although it’s a nice number to drop into conversations from time to time, it [...]
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Posted 14 January 2011
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Last night I got back from a trip to Game Forum Germany (GFG) in Hannover, Germany. GFG is a small game developer conference that got started in 2007 and that I’ve been somewhat involved in in various ways ever since. In 2008 I was responsible for finding the speakers and designing the program, and this [...]
*blows dust off blog* Some of you – well, one person anwyay – may have noticed that I am not blogging much these days. There are two reasons for this: One, I am hard at work. For ludicrous reasons entirely my own I can’t yet tell you what I am working on, but it’s fun [...]
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Posted 10 June 2009
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I remembered just in time that 18 years ago today, I started my first day of professional and paid work in the games industry, at the long-defunct, quasi-legendary German company Thalion software. I can’t recall if I’ve blogged about this before. Every year it grows slightly less meaningless, until 2011 when I hit 20 years [...]
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Posted 14 January 2009
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I just remembered that this blog is now 6 years old. Or rather, on December 19th 2008 the blog was 6 years old. But hey, who’s keeping count. Well, me, OK, I will grant you that. Anyway. 6 years. Wow. Pretty… meaningless. Apart from being a long time. Kind of. Not compared to the age [...]
Hi. Remember me? I hate writing blog posts about not having blogged for a while, so I will keep that part short. I have been busy the last 6 weeks, but if you were to ask me what exactly I’ve been doing, I’d have trouble answering you. I read a book about accounting and am [...]
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Posted 16 December 2008
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GamesIndustry.biz interviewed Raphael Colantonio during last week’s Game Connection in Lyon about the loss of the EA project: “We’re moving on,” said CEO and creative director Raphael Colantonio. “We do have some reserves, some cash that allows us to wait for a while, to find deals and reassign staff. But the right deals – that’s [...]
