Tumblr!

Site redesign incoming! Gonna flip the color palette, brighten up the place a bit, and add a tumblr feed for the little bits of gaming and personal detritus that flow through the ol’ browsing baleen every day.

For an early start, go here: driph.tumblr.com.

The TransAtlantic Telectroscope

This is the Telectroscope, an art installation designed by Paul St George and produced by Artichoke, the same folks responsible for the absolutely amazing Little Girl Giant a couple years back. We were (obviously) at the Brooklyn end; the connecting end was set up in London, giving visitors at each location the opportunity to view and wave hello to the other side.

The Telectroscope installation ran from May 22 to June 15, 2008.

Home again.

Wow, gone for one week and Itagaki left and is suing Tecmo, LucasArts canned half of its dev team, and somebody played Pac-Man with a Roomba. At least I was home in time for the Apple keynote.

I’ve got something like 3700 RSS feed items to scan through and a ton of email to catch up on, but fresh content will return within the next couple days. Two interviews and an article or two on deck, along with the regular bits of this and that. For now, here’s a zombie apocalypse reinterpretation of our wedding photo. I love my friends.

Also, There Will Be Blood = good movie. Thankfully I’d completely missed out on the whole “I drink your milkshake!” phenomenon beforehand.

Seeya in a week!

Life Updates.

Exciting week, this one.

This is my final week as Community Manager for Petroglyph. No animosity or weirdness with the split, it’s just time for me to move on towards new projects. I look forward to hearing future announcements from Petroglyph, as there are some pretty awesome things on deck at the studio.

I’m also getting married this weekend. We decided on a small affair with family and friends we’ve grown up with, followed by a group dinner at Rosemary’s, where in addition to the whole getting married thing, I’m excited for the beer pairing.

Tina and I will be spending the following week in New York. First time for both of us, so I’d love to hear any geek recommendations beyond the usual touristy bits. So far I’ve got Forbidden Planet and the Nintendo World Store on the list.

It speaks wisely.

Hello world!

So here I go again.

Why am I doing this, when already a significant portion of my day is spent writing words? Eh, it’s something I’ve been meaning to get back into for a while, and this page will give me an opportunity to spout off outside the official venues of studio officialness. Besides, community management is still one of those nebulous paths in the game industry, the more of us out there talking about it, the better.

Although to be perfectly honest, I give myself a week before this whole thing devolves into pet photos and entries about the crap I buy.