Hardware day!

January 31st, 2010

So, after the nice guys from alternate sent almost everything I ordered (who needs keyboards, switches and printers anyway?!)  and trans-o-flex managed not to damage the packages during their crazy maneuvers on the iced road, I can post this happy-me picture:

component packege....

So well… I love this weekend. Monday is the first day at the office, and I look forward to holding the key in my hands. This is quite a unique week. After setting up the furniture and the pcs we will descend into town to celebrate.

I registered the domain already, but it points to this page which I am going to change as soon as the ISP sets up the lines at the office.

Tomorrow is the first day of Daylight Interactive. Wish us the best and stop by every now and then to take part in the changes.

Yours, Nadim

And yet another update….

January 27th, 2010

I have to admit, I couldn’t resist akismet und several other plugins. So I tweaked the site a little….

I hope you enjoy tonight’s special feature:     COMMENTS ARE AVAILABLE AGAIN !

Have fun guys, I’ going to catch some sleep.

Great, updates finsihed

January 27th, 2010

I already thought this night could hold some sleep for me, but no way – some things never change.

So I expected this site update to be a lot quicker, but I had to find out, that the whole database had to be rebuilt in a newer version of mysql. Figuring out all the problems took me quite a while. So it’s quite early in the morning now, and I watch over what is mine and wallow in this triumph of man over machine.

Keep the page in your sight, things have been going really well the last days and I am going to give you a small update reeeeaallly soon. So stay tuned, it’s only 4 days until everything is going to change. Believe me.

Movies about game design?!

March 30th, 2009

Most of the time, I spend my weekend with a combination of watching dvds, going out and sleeping. But today I realized something odd. There is at least one tv-series or soap opera which adresses a certain job or profession.

There is the IT-crowd (IT/programming/system administration a.s.o.), Scrubs (medicine), several shows about cooking, building or tuning, Jag (military), Shark (justice/law), and many more.

So for several reasons, these jobs seem to inspire people, showing them how interesting their lives would/could be, if they had chosen a different path.

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Nightfall

March 14th, 2009

When it comes to sleeping, people tend to be pretty honest. They tell you everything, from when, to how, to where… sometimes even with whom. But before you judge me now and think “whow, this guy is totally nuts” please… bear with my 5 o’clock in the moring thinking, because

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The shape of things to come

February 25th, 2009

Things have been quite boring around here lately.

This is going to change.

Soon.

Vacation

September 18th, 2008

Hurray!

Free time. Time to do anything I always wanted to do. That’s really great.

I feel like myself again, with all this creativity coming back into my body after I had some time with my girlfriend.

Anything good at the moment, I just get a little thoughtful.

It’s a slow day…

August 24th, 2008

And now that I had the whole weekend to myself I realize how tired I must have been. I really had to talk myself into going out and train. Now, after training and taking a shower I feel quite fresh and alive.

I am not really able to talk about much at the moment. Maybe I’ll write a short update in the next few days.

If a night’s sleep is like gold for the mind, will I ever get rich?

June 20th, 2008

Hello folks! 

The past few weeks of crunch time really get to me now. For some reason I can’t get to sleep, no matter how hard I try. This is the reason, why I wander around in a constant state of dizziness, with eyes burning like hell and a feeling of weakness. 

This is why I started to go back to the roots. For those of you, who keep reading my blog for some time now, all this might sound a little familiar. When I was still a student at Games Academy Berlin I had plenty of methods to relieve my mind from everyday’s work. Now I struggle to even get my eyes shut at night which results in bedtimes around 2am to 3 am (and honestly even a little later yesterday). 

So this is my plan: 

Instead of trying to go to bed around midnight as I would normally try to do, I am going to move my bedtime to 10pm. This will hopefully confuse my body so much, that it simply refuses to resist my orders anymore and finally gets used to sleep early. 

To get this amazing idea done according to plan, I am going to bribe my conscious mind with burgers and beer tonight. 

Nice plan, eh? 

 

The “shady” side of game development

May 9th, 2008

Well… It’s getting hot in here, because summer is knocking at the door of Ascaron/Studio 2 in Aachen, Germany. I know that there are places on earth that are a lot warmer than Germany, Las Vegas – for example. Or maybe Hawaii, for that matter. Still I am complaining about it and damn I hate that heat and sunshine and all that stuff.

 

Imagine me sitting in the office, having to work hard and concentraded. Then add some noise to the scene, because there is a construction side somewhere near the office. Got the picture? Good.

Now add an open window, so we get fresh air, and some energy drinks and coffee. Got it?

Really? Then add the fine and incomparable smell of steak and sausages and stuff like that. Yeah right, somewhere in the area around the office, some very unfair people just started their barbecue and this constantly drives me more and more into the arms of total insanity.

So maybe I should walk over to these people and tell them about the danger of Game Developers gone mad? Would that help? We don’t have a “do killer games make our kids become mass murderers” discussion for no reason. So the better get me some of tha reeeeeally good smelling barbecue over to my office.

They could just build a catapult to deliver it right through my office window – which is, as I told you – open for SOME reason, right?!

Anyways, I look forward to have my barbecue tonight. It will be the first thing I’ll do after a hard day at work, making games for people who don’t even want to share their barbecues

 

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