My first mobile game distributed by Zapp

"Cluj-Napoca- 05 March 2007 - The Romanian excellence in IT is confirmed again in the video games for the mobile phones market niché through Zamolxis Interactive LLC. The Romanian company announces the launch of their first own mobile game with the Romanian mobile phone operator, Zapp, a game published by Global Instruments Romania."

This is how my press release started today. I am happy to announce that our first game has been launched because this game is just the first of the many to come and it also represents a gradual shift for us from the IT outsourcing industry to the video game development proper and to the publishing industry, for both mobile games and the PC/Console games.

Jeeky is a simple but fun game that brings the platformer arcade atmosphere to the mobile phones. It sports 10 colorful levels, tons of enemies, action, and bonuses to match. Any player can find this game easy to learn and phun to play. You can control it with only 3 keys and can choose from several difficulty settings that best suit your mood. Play the Jeeky character and help him find his true home! Combined with a superior graphics, this game aims to save us from boredom and provokes us to test our skills and determination.

This game is hopefully one of many games to come, both in the mobile and the PC/Next-generation console gaming worlds.

You can find more information about Jeeky and us at http://www.ZamolxisInteractive.com.

Bioshock, oh you pretty System Shock 3!

If you like games, you should definitely watch the amazing gameplay movie that has recently been released by Irrational Games here. I can guarantee you goose bumps or zombie bumps on your skin. Absolutely amazing, this is the game that I am very impaciently waiting for.

Why creationism should at least be right

I'm back again to my blog and with a terrifying thought.

I was talking with a good friend of mine recently about the creationism issue. I was uttering my worries about it and my personal incapability of believing that people still believe that the sun rotates around earth. My friend said something to the effect: "I can't believe you, a smart man, can't believe that such people could exist. Don't underestimate stupidity. It reproduces easily". It was then when it struck me, oh my God! These thinking impaired humans could be right! Darwin talks about natural selection and all that which implies that the best adapted creatures survive and multiply. Hm, then how come there are so many creationists out there? They must have been created because you have to remember, God is an old man with a gray beard living in the cold clouds. And all old men tend to become grumpy. So I do believe creationists persistence on this supposedly civilized world could be the result of God's sick sense of humor.

2006 E3 cometh, what geteth for us?

E3 Booth Babes 
So, the days of the E3 convention are upon us.
Panic panic! Run for shelter!

The good news is that there is an explosion of good games this year,
like most good years, I'd say. Just look at: G4TV. No more comment on that.

The bad is that some games are missing from the show like, doh, Duke Nukem Forever,
or, sadly, STALKER has only blury presence so far.

Another sad story is that boo(b)th babes are supposed to dissapear, in some people's conception. Hell, Wonder Woman was denied entry or at least had problems entering the show.. Bloody puritanistical Sses! They had a very good article on a very respectable site which I will VERY NOT link upon that basically said: "They are supposed to grow up". Helou! We are GAME developers, you really DON'T want us to grow up. Trust me. It puzzles me that images of brains spluttered all over the place are very ok for the great unwashed masses (in the senator's opinion), but when a natural and God designed woman breast is inserted into the game play, all hell breaks loose. Don't get me wrong, pr0n is not to my liking any more than "anti-fornication-ishts". Well, actually porn is acceptable when it does not objectifies the people too much and does not play the "come to the dirty side" tune. Sex is GOOD, nomatter what the women want us to think. It's not good business for the women to allow us to "fly from flower to flower merrilly", at least then serious marriages happen. But should that become law, hm? I guess I'll be sued for attacking the husband-challenged human group now ...

Higher the altitude in a company, thinner the air, lesser the oxigen

Very interesting post in Guy Kawasaki's blog about many things including how management in large companies (or other military-like driven management structures) seems to have very small contact with reality, feedback is blocked.

Goodies, point no #7

My guess is that it is hard to balance learned ideology with the advances of science as the hard earned facts and skills die hard. For a high ranking officer self confidence is paramount and thus leads to having a hard time accepting new information that can destabilize the status quo.

What I think the pointed article is wrong at is when it claims the manager should only rely on data. Wake up, people! Data belongs to the past. You can reason and crunch it as much as you want, visions to carry you over the next next wave will rarely appear from that.

Intel had a one page business plan from what I can remember. It probably said "Conquer the world!". Period. Give me the causing data to this vision! I am not kidding, if you have it, just give it to me :) I promiss to react to the feedback.

Interesting blog post about Software Patents

Interesting article, I must say.

Feld Blog - Software Patents

My personal problem with patents in general can
be expressed by: "Though shall not patent the wheel".

To reader who do not know it already, the wheel has been patented
by an American (I believe), but thankfully he couldn't benefit from
it because the wheel has beed in use for a relatively long (!) period
of time.

Guitar dude makes pretty dormitory music

I've been pretty swamped out these days so I haven't updated my blog,
but here's a piece of guitar play
that has brightened my day.. err.. my late night working hours..

Thanks dude! Just would like to know what guitar type that was.