So, it appears as though I am around the halfway point of my stint here at Telltale, and while I do not yet hate my job or the game industry, I’m starting to get a little bit bored with my life. The excitement of meeting new people and learning new things that was ever-so-present when I first got here seems to have passed. Now I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do with myself.

I do know, however, that my next professional goal is to be a game designer. Programming is fun, but I personally find it fun mainly because it’s a means to an end. Most programmers I know like to program for the sake of programming. I’m not like that, meaning it’s quite possible that I’m not a real programmer. I could have just as easily learned to be an artist or an animator or something; it would have been just as much of a means to an end as programming is for me. My true passion is creating characters, worlds, and things, and making them interact. And just for the hell of it, allowing others the chance to interact with them.

I’ve also been working on designing a new amateur game. That is all I’m going to say on the subject.

On a completely unrelated note, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are excellent movies. I just saw them last week and was profoundly moved. They were directed by the same guy who directed Waking Life, which is also an excellent movie, though a lot wackier and weirder. In a good way, of course.

Last night, I wrote a nonsensical and slightly cheesy poem about the absurdity of infatuation. If you find that sort of thing interesting, then by all means, go read it.

Dear Myspace Users,

Having music automatically play when a person loads your website is so 1997. It is also extremely annoying. If I want to listen to music, I’ll fire up Winamp or something, okay?

Oh, and enough with the busy background images already. How am I supposed to read all your badly-formatted text if I can’t even see most of it?

Love,
The Management