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CODA A sideways look at the games industry


THE INDUSTRY IN 140 CHARACTERS A month in tweets by the industry elite


@MrPhilHarrison Microsoft\office\start\day1


(Phil Harrison, Microsoft) April 10th


@JonTt Great to see that LEGO is now the


UK’s 9th biggest video game franchise of all time, and we’ve only been making the games 7 years... (Jon Burton, TT Games) April 16th


@jmechner Big sigh of relief that those 20-yr-old


source code disks survived intact! We’re not done yet though… #popsource (Jordan Mechner, Prince of Persia creator) April 17th


@br I stare at level curves for hours.


(Brenda Garno Brathwaite, Lootdrop) April 17th


@therealcliffyb I’M AT WORK BEFORE 9 AM


SOMEONE CALL KOTAKU


(Cliff Bleszinski , Epic) April 17th


@steishere People who habitually hashtag apparently #random #words (and #compoundwords) will be #firstup against the #wall when I’m in #charge


(Ste Curran, Secret Crush) April 18th


@giordanobc


21% of the population is ready to do whatever a burning bush tells them to do. There’s great potential for mischief there (Giordano Contestabile, Popcap) April 19th


@milessi Seeing as people pleaded with us to


get FMH onto Android, I’m amazed at how pirated it is. Around 9:1. Dicks.


(Miles Jacobson, Sports Interactive) April 20th


@BenjaminCousins Is there a rule at Vimeo that you need


to use a short prime lens and wobble the fucking camera around all the time?


(Ben Cousins, Ngmoco) April 24th


@Doctoe Saving the Valve staff handbook for future ref.


(Jo Twist, UKIE) April 24th


17% Being sorry


Dissapointing employees


On Twitter, musing on success, failure, and his least favourite employees: What’s so interesting about success is the number of failures who try to ride on your back. Shay Pierce is just one of many…


Back on Twitter again with more to say: The one omgpop employee who turned down joining Zynga was the weakest one on the whole team. Selfish people make bad games. Good riddance!


Returning to the microblogging site to apologise to the world for the comments: I’m sorry for what I said on Twitter last night. No excuses.


Responding on Twitter to Markus ‘Notch’ Persson’s suggestion Porter was an ‘insane idiot’ for the things he said: “It’s been the craziest ride. So yes, I may be temporarily insane. I just wanted my team who stuck with us to shine.”


IT FIGURES : PETER MOLYNUEX’S ‘EXCITING’ MONTH


When Peter Molyneux left Lionhead in March 2012 – which he co-founded in 1997 – it was clear that his next project would be popular. Still, when his new studio 22Cans received 1,000 emails applying for jobs at the studio, Molyneux was unsurprisingly “excited”. With around 22 job openings available over the next ten months, it seems he’ll have no problem filling the spaces. Still, it’s taken the Fable creator some 16 hours to sift through the emails to separate the good from the bad. Molyneux’s last day at Lionhead took place on April 11th. He also resigned from his position as creative director of Microsoft Studios Europe. April also saw the Molyjam game jam take place, where hundreds of developers in 32 globally scattered locations made some 260 games based on the tweets of Molyneux parody account @PeterMolydeux in just 48hours.


72|MAY 2012 68%


AN OPEN MIND DAN PORTER


The omgpop CEO’s comments on joining Zynga caused something of a stir. Of course they did. It’s about Zynga


15%


Temporary Insanity


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