With all the stuff going on it's been getting harder and harder to keep up with these. Still no plans to stop writing them, but I might have to change the frequency of them so that I don't look like as much of a chump when they all come out late, with old information and tired jokes.
Anyhow, here we go again!
Here in my Car
We just released Gaia cars. Yay, yippee, and so forth. I personally have a lot of fun racing -- not only because it's Gaia's first competitive game, but also because I happen to be really good at it rofl
The main thing I want to talk about is this common complaint:
Joe User
Why are you working on Gaia Cars when you should be working on Battle System!?!
It's an understandable concern but an invalid complaint. Development on the Battle System never stopped as a result of Gaia Cars.
Gaia isn't what it was in the early days, with Lanzer coding everything alone in a tiny room. We're an office with multiple teams and developers. Just because one project is being worked on, it doesn't mean others aren't or were even affected.
I also wanted to point out that this is a very cool example of how sponsorships can benefit Gaia. Toyota sponsored Gaia Cars, and as a result we got a fun set of feature that will stay on Gaia, which includes a new gold sink, a mini game where you can actually play with your friends, and something new to customize and show-off.
FLIM SPRINGFIELD
If you understand the heading to this section right-off-the-bat, you're my best friend.
The Gaia Film Festival is accepting submissions for a couple more weeks. We just lifted the US-Only restriction (no announcement was made about that change to my knowledge, though) so if you're a foreign director looking to make a movie about crying mimes in black-and-white, now's your chance.
One of the funny things about submissions to the film festival so far is how many users submitted copyrighted content, stuff they didn't even make, or who blatantly missed the point of the contest. Not to mention a few who submitted things like:
Quote:
dood u guyz shud see this metallica video its so sweet
... which, while I appreciate music recommendations, the Film Festival submission form isn't appropriate for that smile
Art Update Coming
So very soon I'll probably start a guild to showcase arts that people send me - because I have a HUGE stockpile of new arts that I've collected over the last few months which I have yet to put up.
UPDATE: I created the guild here! Swing by and check out the art!
Format Experiment
So I've been pretty much writing free-form about whatever I think is interesting and relevant enough to put up. I also am constantly getting questions from users about stuff. As an experiment in a little format change, if you have any questions of any kind that you'd like me to attempt to answer, include them at the end of your comment. I'll try to get the answers together for the next journal update.
A change of pace is good every once in a while!
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FLIM SPRINGFIELD is from the film festival episode of The Simpsons with Jay Sherman.
We did 20 takes and that was the best one.