I work in the industry and I am today supposed to be releasing a new build of an upcoming DS game that probably few people that frequent this site will be interested in. While it's fun saying that "I make videogames" for a living, it's a difficult job. First of all, you have to deal with all of the same politics as any other company. Games don't just get made by themselves, there have to be realistic schedules and motivation by employees to meet them. Today I'm going to be missing my deadline, which makes it tough to sleep at night. Hopefully, the rest of the schedule will go along better.

Games I played over the weekend: The demo for Lego: Indy. My son and I had a blast playing the first level over and over. I've resisted buying the game because I don't care about the 2nd two movies. I'll get Lego: Batman, instead.

Force Unleashed. It's just a fun time. I haven't gotten far enough into the game to run into the issues most reviewers hate about it. It sounds like the developers got the magic formula half-right: Reward the player early. But you don't stop rewarding them as you get deeper into the game!

Until next time!