parker’s desk

Yep, still alive.  Took a cou­ple of weeks for inter­net to get turned on out here, but I’m all setup in the new apart­ment which is about 15 min­utes from down­town Austin and things are good.

Red Fly Stu­dio is an amaz­ing place to work, usu­ally you start to get a real feel for a place after you’re there a cou­ple of weeks and the “new­ness” wears off and even with that fad­ing I’m still find­ing how much I like it.  It’s def­i­nitely a bit of an adjust­ment being around so many devel­op­ers (I think the studio’s around 60’ish peo­ple?), though I find I like it quite a bit.  The opin­ion I had been given by oth­ers that large stu­dios are assm­bly fac­to­ries couldn’t be far­ther from the truth – tasks are bro­ken down with the best peo­ple on each part of the job, giv­ing every­thing an immense amount of atten­tion and lovin’ to get it where it needs to be.

I work on Ghost­busters right now as an FX Artist, not really sure what I’m allowed to say past that I do that.  It’s a bit of a mind trip to real­ize every day I’m mak­ing a Ghost­busters game, this is the movie that ter­ror­ized me for years as a kid (long story) and I remem­ber obsess­ing over GB2’s Nin­tendo game.  Never thought I’d be work­ing on the franchise’s first for­ray into the 3D realm of systems!

This week I’m mak­ing a real effort to shift my sched­ule towards some­thing closer to what I’ll be doing for the long haul…get to work early in the morn­ing, come home early after­noon.  I like being able to spend the time with my kids in the after­noon and putting them to bed, so I’d like the opin­ion of my co-workers of my work sched­ule be that I’m one of the morn­ing peo­ple (of which there are many, so I don’t need to worry about any­one being bit­ter that I don’t stay late at night like them) which is really cool…the atti­tude is put your time in how­ever you want, just get the work done and do it well.  It’s nice.

Austin’s a great place, a lot more humid than I thought it would be but my body is adjust­ing to it now (I think full acclimi­ti­za­tion is 30 days for most peo­ple, if mem­ory serves).  Work­ing down­town is very cool, it some­how man­ages to keep this small-town feel to it while being a large down­town area.  At night, every night of the week, there is live music blar­ing along 6^th street.  Just awesome.

About all I have for now though, try­ing to get to bed at a rea­son­able time now!  I’ll try post­ing more later tomorrow.

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