Origins Day 2

Yesterday was the first day that the dealer room was open to the public. With the Saga booth positioned next to the door to the CCG room, we expected a lot of traffic. What we didn’t expect were some of the very strange people who stopped by.

I think the guy in the Pokemon suite may be a Saga player.This peculiar quintet that stopped by to steal some of my shirts and claimed to enjoy the game as well. From left to right, Trevoria, Greshish, Many Arrow, Paragrin. That’s SagaUnits behind the weird bunch. Many other players stopped by who escaped my lens, but there is always tomorrow.

Origins Report Day 1

I arived at the Origins convention center with Casey from SagaUnits who volunteered to leave his online world and help demonstrate SAGA to 35,000 gamers. We found our booth at the opening to the CCG area and realized we had our work cut out for us.

While a dumpster in the booth has a certain charm, we elected instead to put up some art that players could enjoy. Large vertical posters were printed for use to adorn the back of our space.

The booth still seemed a bit dark and sparse, but after a trip to the local WalMart and getting my site back after blinding myself with one of the flood lights, the setup was complete.We are both looking forward to four fun filled days, lost voices and sore feet.

I will be posting reports nightly along with plenty of pictures, hopefully catching some Saga players who stop by to lend a hand.

Fun at the office

As part of my continued efforts to expose players to the culture inside a game studio (I have been told that is all I am allowed to expose), I wanted to share these fortune cookies that our intern Sam made for us. You may remember Sam from her comics earlier in the year.

The game industry is a great place to work. The hours are long and sometimes things don't go your way. Stress is a huge factor, especially when you feel you let your community down with a bug that slipped through. The rewards however are well worth it, and the culture helps keep us sane.

The president of my last company wrote a great article on getting a job in the game industry that you can read here

More of the SAGA family.

Well howdy ho there. I hope you are all enjoying SAGA and everything else that has taken a back seat to you playing it. I wanted to take some time to recognize some of the folks here at SAGA that keep the wheels on the bus going around.

This is Dennis, yes that Dennis. Anyone playing the game has seen his name appear in the help chat. He's our Community Manager or something awesome like that. He speaks French and enjoys long walks on the beach.

Have a good one.

Are you busy??

Hey whatcha doing June 25-29?? If you have time and are in the area come down to the Origins Game Fair. You know you want to so just do it already. You know we'll be there. I know this changes everything right? Come down and meet some of the crew. Slava will be there and who wouldn't want to see him. You can volunteer some time and get a free pass and room. So do it.

John

hey you wanna trade? I have 500 gold I will trade for 1000 gold, I'd even take 3000 stone. Any takers???

So how you doing?

You know, we don't talk enough. I really feel alone, why don't you chat anymore?? Is it me? What have I done?? Let me know how I can be a better game for you. I really want to be. I'm willing to do the work for "us".

Just a reminder to use the in game chat. It's a cool way to connect with other players and learn a trick or two.

John

P.S Me and Dennis got our behinds handed to us today from some heroic quest. It was brutal. I hope you are all having better luck.

Hey EA, we've already made this game.

Just read a great article about a new game EA is coming out with. It's going to be blazing new ground or something. Well maybe not so so new ground since we've already done that. Check it out here. I think you'll love the comment by el_cheezer. Thanks el_cheezer, you rock.

Thanks to all of you for helping us really blaze new ground in the RTS world.