hey, cherry. do you belong to the physics club?

Last week, Tool Man was out of town for work, doing whatever it is Major Tool Company representatives do when they leave their wives at home alone ... gathering for a series of trust-building activities and outdoor games. Before he could finish telling ... out "Team Building Exercise '99!!" directly into his ear. Sadly, my glee at this very appropriately [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 03:15:00

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Dragon Age: Origins and Sims 3 Suffer Stiff Delays

If your strict 2009 gaming schedule absolutely required that you give Sims 3 a day-one download and light tiny people on fire until Dragon Age: ... combined with the break-through game the team is building gives us the perfect runway to create awareness ... its console cousins. "I'm really proud of our team, who are working very hard to make Dragon [more...]

Date: 2009-02-04 03:10:06

Location Based Games Will Rock Your World

This article was written by Phil Black: Android enthusiast and Phandroid reader. It’s a normal day as Chandler walks down the street. BZZZZZZZZ… ... for, I just want to see what they can do! NavBall The game? 11 players each team, 2 teams total ... on your phone. Shoot the ball in the net. Building or car in the way? Work around it. You have to work [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 05:12:19

Building MMOG’s for the Flash Player: Intro

We’ve started work on a huge MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) project with a U.S. based games publisher. It’s supposed to go live after summer this year, and we’ve already got a big team working ... . As we really wanted our games to be playable by everyone on the net without installing anything [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 09:27:25

Summer workshops with New Voice Company, Gantimpala Theater

1. New Voice Company , one of the country’s most progressive theater companies and founded by artistic director Monique Wilson, ... and psychological actions, animal work, relationship exercises, and learning how to build a character. Work will also include theater games by Viola Spolin, which encourages trust, being part of a team [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 16:00:00

1st Annual Global Game Jam NYC - Days 2 & 3 (1/31-2/1)

I was originally going to split these two days into their own posts (like my first post on the event), but when I wasn’t sleeping I was at the Jam ... of our creative assets, and desperately trying to keep my team members, who were doing the real work without ... . What was originally a free-stylus defense building game had turned into a one-button (aka [more...]

Date: 2009-02-07 17:25:14

1st Annual Global Game Jam NYC - Days 2 & 3 (1/31-2/1)

I was originally going to split these two days into their own posts (like my first post on the event), but when I wasn’t sleeping I was at the Jam ... of our creative assets, and desperately trying to keep my team members, who were doing the real work without ... . What was originally a free-stylus defense building game had turned into a one-button (aka [more...]

Date: 2009-02-03 14:56:41

Little big adventure

You probably haven't heard about Little King's Story, even though it's due in just a couple of months exclusively for Wii ... the charismatic game a chance to win you over. The Japanese team working on Little King's Story ... with real-time strategy, empire building, town planning and Harvest Moon-style life simulation. Players [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 22:53:54

Game Design Excercise: Shadowland

This is going to be an ongoing experiment in game design ... your reality from shadow to shadow to travel. Perhaps a treasure hunt mechanic where you collect ... browser-based 3D environments, building on the work that our team was doing in X3D. Although [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 22:52:16

Little big adventure

You probably haven't heard about Little King's Story, even though it's due in just a couple of months exclusively for Wii ... the charismatic game a chance to win you over. The Japanese team working on Little King's Story ... with real-time strategy, empire building, town planning and Harvest Moon-style life simulation [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 21:55:43

Everything We Know About Halo 3 Recon

It probably says something about the state of Japanese game design that the biggest story out of this year's Tokyo Game Show has the Halo name on it ... as Halo 3. But on the content side, Bungie has a small splinter team working furiously on building [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 11:00:00

Killzone 2 designer moves on

Neil Alphonso, Killzone 2 designer has decided it was time for him to move on ... are building a strong development team who have already lured people that have previously worked ... . Alphonso has left Guerilla Games to join Splash Damage, a UK based company. Previously [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 15:54:21

A class in creating good online gaming entertainment ethnics among a society is being offered in the Bley Hagins building of the local university

Creating solid corporate wide online gaming entertainment values also helps motivate employees to use best practices in their work, ... .” Moreover, by creating a unified team element in the online gaming entertainment sector, profits [more...]

Date: 2009-01-28 08:05:07

A class in creating good gaming politics ethnics among a society is being offered in the Kroes Machuga building of the local university

“Most gaming politics companies start with the bottom and work their way up when establishing new levels of corporate responsibility,” said Murch Granda, an important author and consultant, “and this permeates all the way to upper leadership and helps get rid of the dead wood.” Moreover, by creating a unified team element [more...]

Date: 2009-01-25 08:06:53

The GamingShogun 2008 PC Gaming Xmas Wish List

2008 has seen some really incredible titles released for the personal computer ... , the game emphasizes teamwork above all else. One day, I would love to see company ''retreats'' where their team-building exercises consist of Left 4 Dead rounds (I wanna work there!). Coupled [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 00:15:07

GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #6: Kids' Games & Building Sets

All chores and no play make Jack a dull boy. Kids love games, ... can capture the Marshal as you work to locate the other team's flag before they capture yours [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 18:00:22

Grand Theft Auto IV / GTA IV RIP 6 GB

According to Rob Nelson, producer at Rockstar Toronto, the PC version has been working on GTA IV PC since January with a team of around 50 members ... later is due to the fact that we are building this as a pc game from the ground up and adding additional [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:44:00

Northwest Arkansas Naturals Hiring Personnel For 2009 Season

USA - Want to have the opportunity to come to work every day at an office located at the “Ballpark of the Year.”? ... parties, team building, charitable events, large scale festivals, and any activities at Arvest Ballpark outside of Naturals baseball games. This past season, some of the special events at Arvest Ballpark [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 00:33:26

Playing Tetris can help reduce trauma

Playing the computer puzzle game “Tetris” can help reduce the symptoms of traumatic stress, claim scientists.[ ... . The Oxford team chose “Tetris” because it involves moving coloured building blocks around and uses ... Holmes said: “Tetris may work by competing for the brain’’s resources for sensory information [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 07:19:52

Day 31: Friends

Today was spent largely reading, playing games, and with friends (for lunch) ... d asked on more than one occasion, first at our team meeting in the fall, continuing on through ... , if someone had come to me and said, “I’d working on building up some savings, because you don’ [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 22:38:10

Read: David Wright working on Explosiveness

In the New York Post, Kevin Kernan spent time in New York City with David Wright, ‘who is working hard this offseason to add more explosiveness, ... not help but think of what the mood had been like during the previous game played in that building ... Wright, on Citi Field, and what it could mean to his team, as quoted by Kernan: “I think [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 16:51:06

Support Your Child’s Team…Tips for Athleticly Challenged Moms

by Jennifer Dumas You can be your child’s biggest fan whether you understand the game or not! Below are the top 10 ways to show your support ... with team activites such as fundraising, team parties, or uniform orders. This sends your child ... , I will always be proud of you” attitude. Sports are about building self esteem, learning to work as [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 00:47:48

Book Review: Team Challenges

Planning church youth group activities can be a real challenge. Especially if you want to keep games fun and fresh week after week ... relationships. A helpful book I recently came across is Team Challenges: 170+ Group Activities to Build ... been frustrated by weaknesses many of these resources seem to share: many activities do not work well [more...]

Date: 2009-02-13 16:00:00

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11Dec08 what we worked on today in preparation of newtunes launch By Jon Categories: Uncategorized Tags: choosing an agency, hiebing, ... the Hiebing building earlier this summer, one of my team members told me that they didn’t seem ... hiebingski.com, holiday cards, thank you notes, video games We received [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 19:15:53

Chili Party

How awesome are lazy Saturdays?!? I lounged around all morning in my PJ’s, did some baking, worked out, and spent the afternoon eating, drinking, ... to cheer on his alma mater’s basketball team, who were playing in a “bracket buster” game. I really enjoyed the afternoon! Party Prep While I squeezed in a quick workout in our building’s gym (15 [more...]

Date: 2009-02-21 23:17:01

MLM Training Using Games on Personal Growth Edition 2

Developing mastery in Network Marketing takes discipline and a lot of hard work. There are 5 categories in network marketing that you will need to develop mastery in to be successful. They are Personal Growth, Customer Acquisition, Recruiting, Team Building, and Leadership [more...]

Date: 1999-11-30 00:00:00

That worked out pretty well, didn't it?

RICK EGLINTON/TORONTO STAR 27 points from the big guy on this night ... . But, really, is it the end of the world if fans in the team’s home city miss two games on TV? Seriously ... s coming so I figure he’ll get this thing resolved in some lunch break in between building the Leaves [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 13:11:22

2D+UI+ARTIST+25+%C2%96+30K+SCOTLAND

2D+Artist+to+join+the+art+team+on+a+cutting-edge%2C+Triple+A+project ... +helping+to+create+a+modern+and+innovative+interactive+experience+across+a+number+of+games ... +work+closely+with+project+programmers+in+the+building+and+testing+of+Ui+Artwork.%0D%0ATake [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 21:24:12

How Peer Coaching Works

Let’s say you have a team of sales engineers. Your greatest team member, Kevin, a real star, is winning deals largely by writing dynamic proposals ... . • Peer coaching is the truest team builder of all. Most team-building efforts use non-work-related activities: ropes courses, outdoor games, bowling, or just social events. Peer coaching allows [more...]

Date: 2009-02-07 09:02:33

Down with team-building games

Count me among those who do NOT get worked up about city councils and other public bodies treating ... $3,000 on a "leadership seminar focused on team-building" at their retreat at the end of last week ... in a maze without talking to each other. To confess, I have a deep-seated prejudice against team-building [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 20:48:22

Call for Speakers

We invite your participation in the third annual IGDA Leadership Forum, focused on advancing the state of the art in game production and management ... management team-building company culture and sharing ... successful games, and learn from other working professionals in the game industry. The second IGDA [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 21:08:42

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