Paris B-A

Lots has been happening lately! My talk at ACS Tasmania’s IT in the Club went really well, and is available in the downloads section of this site. The event got a record turnout (although, admittedly, mostly friends of mine) and everyone seemed to enjoy hearing about my research – even if I did feel seriously ill and almost pass out mid-speech! Also, on the 6th of this month, myself and Josh Deprez, Winton, Andrew Bennett and Mr. Ford got stuck in an elevator for an hour, it was an amusing experience. We passed the time by singing along to Moskau and 99 Luftballoons and then passed an ethernet cable through the tiny gap in the door and used iChat to talk to Peter Lyle and Jon Manning. A good time was had by all!

“Project F”, also known as Secret Project, has been progressing extremely well. Many late nights have been spent working with the team: Andrew Bennett (Art), Jon Manning (Programming), Josh Deprez (Music), Zen Miles (Gameplay), Peter Lyle (Gameplay, Project Management) and myself (Producer). We’re in the middle stages of development right now and most of our time (with the exception of Andrew, who is busy 3D modelling, and Jon, who is busy coding the engine) has been spent designing levels (yes, Secret Project is a game!)

We think we’ll start talking about it sometime within the next month, release is still scheduled for early June (around when everyone suspects WWDC will be!) Speaking of WWDC, I’m greatly looking forward to the now annual pilgrimage to San Francisco. Lots of exciting things are happening with Secret Lab at the moment and I can’t wait to tell the rest of the world about them. Hopefully I’ll see lots of you there!

My PhD is progressing well, not that much has happened – I’ve spent academic year thus far writing a few journal and conference papers, only one of which has been submitted yet – more on this as we receive it! I’m going to spend my time drinking coffee and working on cool things with Secret Lab. Until next time, everyone should go and watch robot friend, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Battlestar Galactica and Chuck. I’ll be posting more soon, with news of Button Squid and his new friend, Twitter! See you then!