Dreaming or Reality

It has been a while!

Here I am in Redmond, Washington, sharing room with Steve Conard.

Yes I sit here all day besides Steve; getting ZERO official work done but yet having the best time of my life.

What I am doing?

Designing Games!! Steve Bleeds Game Design.

After spending something like 3 weeks here I have started to convince myself that I am not abnormal :). I am not alone in this world who goes to buy vegetables and instead buying them just stare at them and think…..is there a game here….

I have spent my last 3 weeks with some of the most creative, intelligent, funny, caring, soulful, friendly and just plain awesome people on the planet.

It has been an overwhelming experience.

My day starts with a cheese sandwich, 5 miles of care free drive to office and then doing nothing else but games for 12 hours straight……by the way it ends with couple of cans of Budweiser.

Today I realized something interesting; Lot of people ask me “I want to be a game designer”, I have a different thought for all of you aspiring game designers and let me try to put it in once sentence. “You don’t want to be game designers, as you are already are game designers, and it’s just that you want to get paid for designing them”.

There is plenty to share, but time is running out right now, day after tomorrow I fly out of here back to Hyderabad…..more enlightened :)

I am on a weeks vaccation, will write a more detailed blog soon.

Till then…happy deisgning.

Freaky Teen Age of Games

Time for some fun;

So some how I always thought India will go through 3 distinct phases in games development.

Birth, Freaky Teen and Adulthood

I was lucky to get involved with it during its Birth phase. Everyone had the real passion and love for games. We were working day in and day out to achieve our dreams. No one had a clue how-why-what but there was no lack of commitment, it was fantastic.


I think today India has reached the Freaky Teen age, everyone and anyone wants to MAKE A GAME; it’s so funny that you can actually entertain yourself by searching and reading about the companies in India doing games development.

It’s hilarious, so let’s have some fun, below are 2 companies which are just fabulous.

First one on the list is:
Bitscape IT Solutions
http://www.bitscapesolutions.com/game-development.htm

After reading it, go hit yourself with a hammer, maybe you will be able to make some sense out of it all.

Second in the list is

7Seas Technologies Limited

Nothing much about this one, people say “I bitch too much”. So I am just keeping quite, only one thing, they want to make cross platform game engine for PC, Xbox 360 and I guess PS3 as well but their DirectX interview test paper has wrong questions ;)

http://www.7seastech.com/WorkCulture.aspx

Read their corporate work culture, funny for an office fitted into a 3 BHK apartment, shhhuuush did I say anything ;)


I have few more names up my sleeves but no point ripping them without any reason, investigations are on.

If you are getting bored till then, think of opening up a game studio ;)