Grumpy Gamer

Meeting Steve Jobs

Oct 5, 2011

Several years ago I had the great pleasure and privilege of meeting Steve Jobs.

I had a meeting at Pixar and I heard that Steve Jobs might be there. First thing I did was ask a good friend of mine that knew Steve Jobs what he was like and was there any advice she could give me.

She said that Steve Jobs is an incredibly intelligent and passionate person and the one piece of advice she had for me was: don’t argue with Steve Jobs and everything will go fine. Argue with Steve Jobs? He’s probably one of the smartest people in the whole world and someone I have unequalled respect for, why would I ever argue with him?

The Vertical Slice

Jul 8, 2011

The vertical slice is one of the dumbest things the game industry has ever come up with. I threw this together to show how dumb it is. Not sure why I was thinking about it today, but I was. The publisher I’m working with now doesn’t want a vertical slice, some don’t, but there are quite a few that do.

It’s just a dumb way to build a game and it results in wasted time and money and doesn’t produce the best game possible.