dgackeyAustin, TXInactive, PRO, Chef EmeritusPosts: 699
Welcome! You don't like snow? Not even to play in?
My kids think it's fun (the two or three times they've seen it in person), but I'm not a big fan of shoveling it or driving in it...
I'll confess to a mild affection for white Christmases but that's all you're getting out of me
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dgackeyAustin, TXInactive, PRO, Chef EmeritusPosts: 699
Welcome Dan, great to hear there's another new experienced game developer on board, in upper management. Fantastic!
SOL: Exodus looks cool, some really good reviews of it at The Escapist and Destructoid in particular. Great for the hardcore space fans!
Thanks, glad to be here and I think we've got a great mix of backgrounds and skills.
SOL was definitely a labor of love and I'm really proud of what we were able to do with that game. We got dinged by several reviewers who I don't think realized the dev team was just five people. D'Toid, Kotaku and the Escapist were the outlets that actually spent some time talking to the team and realized what we were trying to do and the limitations we had.
Unfortunately we just didn't get enough traction to keep going, so we had to shut it down. But that's life in the game industry.
Would be awesome if you can lure a few more talented developers in over the coming months. Rock on.
Don't have anything concrete to share at the moment, but rest assured that everyone we bring on will be talented and awesome.
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@dgackey Welcome! So Dan, when you getting one of those swanky pixel characters, eh?
tenrdrmerMember, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-ChefPosts: 9,934
Welcome Dan,
So can we expect you will be attempting to fill the insanely massive void the community is gaining when @saladstraightshooter makes his final departure this week??
dgackeyAustin, TXInactive, PRO, Chef EmeritusPosts: 699
Welcome Dan,
So can we expect you will be attempting to fill the insanely massive void the community is gaining when @saladstraightshooter makes his final departure this week??
Don't think there's any way I could fill his shoes, but I will certainly be doing my best to stay active on the forums when not otherwise occupied. But as you've already seen, @CodeWizard is a man of the people and will also be helping to fill that void.
I ask only for your patience while I get up to speed.
Dan Magaha · COO · GameSalad, Inc · danm@gamesalad.com
SlickZeroHouston, TexasMember, Sous ChefPosts: 2,870
Welcome, Dan.
I have to ask, as I asked codewizard the same thing when he came onboard. Were you a part of Paragon Studios when NCSoft decided to shut it down, and therefore closing City of Heroes? Still have a bitter taste in my mouth for NCSoft, especially how that all went down with the employees, and the player base.
Anyway, looking forward to getting to know you better.
dgackeyAustin, TXInactive, PRO, Chef EmeritusPosts: 699
Welcome, Dan.
I have to ask, as I asked codewizard the same thing when he came onboard. Were you a part of Paragon Studios when NCSoft decided to shut it down, and therefore closing City of Heroes? Still have a bitter taste in my mouth for NCSoft, especially how that all went down with the employees, and the player base.
Anyway, looking forward to getting to know you better.
No, I sure wasn't. Paragon was out in SF, and @CodeWizard and myself worked in the Austin office. I was heading up a new project that never saw the light of day, unfortunately. However, the lead designer on my team was a former COH designer by the name of Sean Fish, who you may have known on the forums as Manticore.
After NC shut down most of its development, I started up a studio for 2K games here in town, and one of our team was Jo Burba (who was once a CR on the game as CuppaJo).
Dan Magaha · COO · GameSalad, Inc · danm@gamesalad.com
SlickZeroHouston, TexasMember, Sous ChefPosts: 2,870
Oh wow. Yes, I knew who Sean was, and his Manticore Task Force. And Cuppa was always on the forums, and the developer/community events. I was in a SG called "Paragon City Search and Rescue" for 8 years, and we had regular contact with Cuppa. She was awesome. That's really cool you all worked together. Hope they're all doing good, and glad you are onboard the GameSalad team with codewizard now as well.
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SOL: Exodus looks cool, some really good reviews of it at The Escapist and Destructoid in particular. Great for the hardcore space fans!
Would be awesome if you can lure a few more talented developers in over the coming months.
I'll confess to a mild affection for white Christmases but that's all you're getting out of me
Dan Magaha · COO · GameSalad, Inc · danm@gamesalad.com
SOL was definitely a labor of love and I'm really proud of what we were able to do with that game. We got dinged by several reviewers who I don't think realized the dev team was just five people. D'Toid, Kotaku and the Escapist were the outlets that actually spent some time talking to the team and realized what we were trying to do and the limitations we had.
Unfortunately we just didn't get enough traction to keep going, so we had to shut it down. But that's life in the game industry. Don't have anything concrete to share at the moment, but rest assured that everyone we bring on will be talented and awesome.
Dan Magaha · COO · GameSalad, Inc · danm@gamesalad.com
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So can we expect you will be attempting to fill the insanely massive void the community is gaining when @saladstraightshooter makes his final departure this week??
I ask only for your patience while I get up to speed.
Dan Magaha · COO · GameSalad, Inc · danm@gamesalad.com
I have to ask, as I asked codewizard the same thing when he came onboard. Were you a part of Paragon Studios when NCSoft decided to shut it down, and therefore closing City of Heroes? Still have a bitter taste in my mouth for NCSoft, especially how that all went down with the employees, and the player base.
Anyway, looking forward to getting to know you better.
After NC shut down most of its development, I started up a studio for 2K games here in town, and one of our team was Jo Burba (who was once a CR on the game as CuppaJo).
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