Pol Jeremias

Lately school is keeping me very busy (that is why I can not update as much as I would like) however, this week I am taking some days off to go to the IGDA Leadership Forum 2009 in San Francisco, CA.

If everything goes as expected I will be able to update this blog with information and even photos, so stay tuned. 

And, if you are also going to the IGDA Leadership Forum, I will see you there!

Finally, I would like to thank all the organization, and specially Jason from IGDA for all his help these lasts weeks.

PD : Next projects, I am planning to write a couple tutorials that should be ready on December. One about communication between C++ / C# and, the second one about object replication with RakNet.

Yesterday, I went to E for All in Los Angeles. It was a very nice experience but, I think I was expecting more… games, companies, people. Maybe the problem is that our industry has too many shows during the year (It has to be difficult for a game company to present new stuff in each of them). Or maybe the industry prefer to use Internet as medium to attract new clients. In any case, it is clear that something has to change.

Highlights :

• Gears of War 2
  If you liked the first you are going to love this second game! Basically, it is Gears of War * 2, they have improved every single feature of the game.
• Far Cry 2
  The first level is really impressive. I couldn’t play as much as I want because of the line but it keeps the essence of the first Far Cry.
• The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
  Beautiful game created by USC students. Check it out : link
• Others
  Shaun White Snowboarding, Star Wars : The Force Unleashed.

Quick update :

• I moved to Los Angeles last August.
• I got accepted to the Master of Science Computer Science (Game Development) at University of Southern California.
• I am living very close to campus in a beautiful old house.
• More updates coming this weekend.

Yes, I won a pass to the E for All Expo in LA !

Today, I want to thank Gamedev.net and its contest “Win A Pass to the E for All Expo“. This last Monday I found out that I am one of the winners who will be attending the E For All Expo for free. Thank you.

By the way, if somebody else is also planning to go, let me know so we can meet up, have some drinks and enjoy LA.

Info : LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. October 3-5. 2008.

Finally I found some time to make my parents proud of me. I went to our old house and I tidied it up! Tons of dust everywhere, tons of boxes, tons of old memories. That house is like my memory chest.

Good news :

• I found tons of stuff that I didn’t even know I had.
• I found tons of games and consoles that I used to play when I was a kid ! NES, Super Nintendo, Game and Wath, Game Boy, Playstation, Nintendo 64 …

Bad news :

• I felt so bad to leave all my old games there so I classified and boxed everything. So… now I have tons of boxes in my apartment (and it is small). My question is : where should I keep them ?
• Even though I find the Nintendo Entertainment system, I couldn’t find its box.

I am very proud that my family could keep everything there and that we didn’t throw anything away.