See, my problem with game design is, that I am quite addicted to it. It’s not only the possibility to create living characters, plots and even whole worlds, no – it’s the possibility to make the pictures in your mind come to live.

But then there are times, like now, when my mind is just flooded with ideas and images and nothing really works out the way you imagined it all in your mind. Most times I compensate this state of mind with a really large amount of sleep. Well… mostly. Not tonight. There are very rare nights like this one, when I am afraid to go to bed because my mind constantly tells me, that doing so would kill the pictures and remove something really beautiful from this world.

No chance to get people to see the pictures lost. No chance to get people to have fun with your ideas and – the most important one – No chance to ever get your game to be the best you could make of the resources you had.

See, game design is not always million dollar budgets, years of development time and 70+ people working on the title. Sometimes it is the little games, which we care about the most. I am absolutely certain, that we can make the best games on the face of earth, as long as we keep these little ideas and pictures and don’t waste them to the endless universe.

If we then put everything into the game, like our souls, happiness, sadness, love, passion and power the outcome can be stunning and beautiful.

So if you’re asking me, why I am sitting at my desk in front of my painfully loud computer at 2:30 in the night, almost falling asleep and knowing, that the next day starts in about five to six hours – you now know the answer.

It’s because of making good games.

Keep your heads up people, the night just started!

This week we started the pre-production phase which is – although I worked on this over the past four months – still a lot of work. I’m happy to announce to you the fresh lauch of the company’s new website which is – for now – a small rebuild of this site. I am glad to get so much support, I really appreciate that.

As far as I am concearned, the project can go on just the way it does right now. If you guys want to know anything specific about the company, either drop me a comment or wait until further detail is released.

Rock on!

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

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

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

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.

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.

Now, honestly, I find myself in a similar situation. First, I think that as a game designer I have to awaken the same feeling in people as a tv show would do. The “The Sims” – series is a very good example for such an approch on design, because it follows several mechanics utilized by tv-shows (especially the drama between relationships and people).

Second, I find myself in just the situation in which I have to ask… “What else could I be?”.

Don’t get me wrong. I really like my job. But then again, there is no tv-show about game designers. No drama, no relationsips, no “we need to do this for the people”, nothing. Are we nobody’s idols?

If you’d walk up to adults on the street and asked them: “who is the lead game designer of World of Warcraft?”… do you think they’d know? And WoW has around 10 million players around the world. So how is it possible that there are not close as many people knowing our names, but every women of a special target audience knows, who Sarah Jessica Parker(Sex and the City) is? I just don’t get it. I mean… we amuse as many people as they do, right?

So would it be too much to ask for a tv-series about game developers? Make it unrealistic, make it world-changing make it funny, personal, whatever, but …. make it. So I can at least say, “I do that thing Matt Damon does in this tv-show…”

Now that would be cool, right?

Or do we like beeing these secret entertainers… now… maybe our job is cool the way it is:

“The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.”  – (excerpt, Sir Walter Scott)

this fact is exactly why I am writing this article in the first place – but anyways. What was I going to say? Right. So they tell you everything. Go ahead. Ask some of your friends how they sleep and enjoy all those little details.

Then, if you ever experience a sudden situation of wakefulness, think of those stories. Picture them as if they were your own, for example the one night in Paris with the champagne (even if you’ve never been to Paris in your life) – and then got to bed. You’ll see… it works quite well.

The funny thing is… if your friends ever ask you about your sleeping habits… don’t tell them the truth. You might never hear one of their stories again.

Nighty nite.

This is going to change.

Soon.

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.

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