Thursday, September 21, 2006

Dude...you got a little Arzt on you.

Sep. 21st 2006.

Man, where the fuck has all the time gone? Only a few more weeks until this baby is alpha and I am just sitting here at my desk going over the millions of things we have done and trying to make sure I haven’t missed anything. That…and wishing I had more time to put in a few more cool things. But to be honest I think I was able to get everything I wanted in the game. Even with the stuff that I have cut through out the development I still look at what we do have and realize that this really is the best of the ideas. At one point we were going to do an Atlantis level, which actually had some cool ideas in it but in the end it just really cluttered things up. Who knows…maybe if we do get to do another game the level, or some of the ideas from it, will appear?

The Video Games Live show is tonight at the Hollywood Bowl…and I really wanted to go. I was set to go for a few weeks, but we have a drop on Friday for our Monday Tuesday playtests so I gotta be here tonight. Damn. I missed that show last year because I was prepping the game…so that bummed me out. And now this year I was gonna’ get to do the red carpet/meet and greet thing they do before the event…which would have been freakin sweet. Lots of people there who were instrumental in some of my favorite games. Would have been nice to hang out and chat with them…but alas this is the reality of game making. Not much time for the ‘fun’…waaaay too much work to do. But when the game is done there is a little time for fun…so I guess I got that going for me.

We are working out the details of our demo right now…what it will be and when we will get it out there. I will try and keep you all posted on that.

Yesterday was pretty exciting…I did a redesign on our Final boss encounter to spice it up a bit more and really make it hit hard. I think it is definitely in a much better place now. Still got a few more things I want to do to it, but it feels like it is going to be far more epic than its original incarnation. Nothing like switching it up in the eleventh hour of the eleventh hour…hmmm…that really doesn’t even make sense.

Well I have a playthrough of all the playtest content this morning…hopefully all that goes well and it…well…works. If things look pretty good today then we are in good waters…maybe I might even get to duck out and go to the show tonight. But if they doon’t go well this morning then it will be a rough road to Monday. Keepin my fingers crossed for the goods to come through this morning.

The producer just dropped off some marketing samples of the Audio CD covers and packaging materials. Sweet stuff. I like that we are going to release an actual CD of the soundtrack instead of just going solely with downloadable. Even though I Download a ton of stuff from itunes it is still cool to have an actual physical product every now and then.

Ok…I’m out. I am still working out how we are going to do this whole demos for the OG blog readers thing. Maybe just have everyone who wants in on the demo send me you name and address and credit card number (just kidding) to this email address. I will keep a running tab of this and when the demo’s are ready I will have ‘em sent out. Now I am not sure how many I can send out so if I get a thousand emails I might not be able to send a demo to everyone. Who am I kidding…there aren’t a thousand people who read this blog. Anyway…I know the handful of true OG readers so I won’t leave you all high and dry. But like I said we still don’t know when the demo is going to be available so you will have to keep checking back here for the 411.

So send the deets to this email: m0nk3yfr3sh@hotmail.com

yeah...before you say...that is a fucking dorky email. Like one step away from 1amDarthV8d3r or trans4mrzR00L or some shit like that. I am a dork. I know this.

speaking of OG...I wonder how the hell Grandma hardcore is doin. I think I will go check her site out and see what she is playing.

38 comments:

Anonymous said...

So is Name, City, County, Postal Code and Address all the info I need to send you for a demo? Hopefully that is enough because thats what I sent you.

Anonymous said...

Well...that's an interesting offer. Thanks for contacting Rocco and Vinnie Cory.

~info sent

Anonymous said...

Well Cory, if you run out of demos could you send me a copy of Mr. Peppard’s picture with your autograph? That would be teh awesome!

Anonymous said...

Tim Schafer's going to the VGL show! Double Fine News says so...come on, go! I had tickets for the New York show at the Beacon and they fucking cancelled it. I should move to CA...at they appreciate video games out there...

I sent my contact info for the demo. Thanks for the offer, you rock! Can't wait to play it!

Cory Barlog said...

Hey Jag114 and Godmode...can you send again...the emails didnt come through because the account hadn't activated yet.

sorry about that.

cory

Cory Barlog said...

also...spencer and eric you should send your stuff in again as well.

Tapion440 said...

Awesome. I remember that I missed out on the first GoW demo from Jaffe's blog because I was a dumbass and didn't include any name or address in my email. I just sent an email that said: "Can I have a demo?" It's kind-of funny now but I was pissed when I found out what I did.

Have you heard Wierd Al's new song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

- Having lots of problems trying to hold his new DS Lite while using the stylus...

- Tapion440

Anonymous said...

Incredible :) I sent my info, but the problem is, I live in Bulgaria, in Europe.I would feel I'm really living on the outermost edge of the world if that's the only reason I wouldn't have a demo...

Anonymous said...

Love the new videos of the game...I was just wondering what level will be in the demo, and if you're going to put like a making of: like on the first demo. Lata.

Anonymous said...

I just finished sending my info, rubcar91@aol.com. I think it's an awesome move to send demos out to your fans, it really shows that you care. Oh well, glad to hear you're satisfied with the game so far, I know it will be the shiznik!

P.S. I agree with the above poster, "Making Of" featurettes should be in the game, they really kept me playing the first one. I just love that type of behind-the-scenes stuff.

Tapion440 said...
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Tapion440 said...

If I'm not wrong, which I never am, Cory made the remark a while ago that he was doing a "making of..." featurette or something like that. Maybe not. I just remember me responding that most developers probably wouldn't want to have a video on the making of a game that turns out to be real shitty.

I'll go look for it. It may actually be on Modblog.

*Whoops*

Here's that blog of Cory talking about shooting behind the scenes stuff:

http://corybarlog.modblog.com/?show=blogview&blog_id=738670

It takes forever to load but it will. And Cory, I'm still in the process of making that shirt for you...I've just been busy these past 373 days...you know

Anonymous said...

Can and will do.

~It's strange that this happened today..I've been having dreams about GoWII for weeks (most didn't make any sense or were more like Diablo)...in last night's dream I was playing the demo with what my mind was telling me was Level 2 Blades of Athena *the rest of the dream is non-GoW related*

-I'm fairly sure but I've been meaning to ask..where the golden blades shown in the E3 demo Level 3 BoA? (just curious)

Anonymous said...

hey Cory...Cody here...I was just wondering if you guys are gonna be at TGS 2006...if so, you don't wanna show off too much of the game...we like to be surprised.

Anonymous said...

hey cory,
I re-sent the demo info and now I'm all paranoid about you receiving it...whatever. If you have the time--and I know you don't--could you let me know you got the email? No biggie.

I'm curious about TGS too...is GOW2 there?

Anonymous said...

Cory, I'm probably asking in vain, but is there even a slightest of a chance you'll be able to send a copy to Israel? I'm not an OG reader or anything but I AM a very big fan of God of War and I really want to play God of War II a bit.

I beat God mode 3 times if it helps! :)

Anonymous said...

funny that you have time to write a huge long blog but you can't write one line of email to your x-friend.xoxo

Anonymous said...

Sent the email! Can't wait to play it.

Zodiak said...

Cory! I must get in on this free demo thingy for the game! At least it isn't 1337pW|\|o|2@13375k337.|\|37!!1 (god I hate that stuff lol). Anyway, I'll send the info...

And...what did one snowman say to the other?

Anonymous said...

Can I answer that??

Anonymous said...

Anonymous, you can answer whether there's any chance a demo would be sent to Europe ?

Anonymous said...

Or Israel in my case... but I think not since Cory hasn't answered yet, however it could be because he has no time... so I still have my hopes, but not too much.

btw I am the annonymous in that post.

Tapion440 said...

The only question that I'm wondering is if the demo that works here in America will also work in the countries that some of you guys are from. I don't know if the region that you're in has anything to do with it or not.

*willing to kick in a few bucks to ship a kickass game to Israel and Europe*

-Tapion440

Anonymous said...

Tapion440, I love you! if only it was Cory who said that.

my PS2 can play both Pal and NTSC games, so no problem there.

Anonymous said...

Tapion440, I love you, too ! :)
It will work on my console, so there's no problem.

Anonymous said...

hell yea tapion440, I love you man

Devin Greer said...

Mr. Barlog... May I call you Mr. Barlog? Just joking... Thanks a bunch... love the updates... Is it true that GOWII could possibly come out earlier than next February? Just a rumor I heard...

Devin Greer said...

Oh, yeah... What Eric said... I'd like to know that you get my e-mail too... Just to be sure... If it's not too much.

Zodiak said...

yeah I need to know too...what they said...

Anonymous said...

oops...sorry, Cory.

Anonymous said...

i sent you my info and thank you VERY much!

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