It has been work, work and more work lately. So much has changed since the last time I posted. I attended two great game development events, HELP Institute's Video Game Symposium and GDC's Future Game Creators Seminar. Started work on a project, codename: BattleChess which has been relatively fun. It is a great game, perhaps the best thing I have worked on ever.

Game Developers Club

• Future Game Creators Seminar
• Only one day: 29th of May
• The seminar went well, speakers were:
• Kevin Larken, Art Director, GameBrains
• Mike Ooi, Lead Game Designer, Phoenix Games Studio
• Hafiz Pon, Chief Technology Officer, Phoenix Games Studio
• I had to sponsor the event myself.
• The games the MMU student showcased were pretty impressive.
• My favourite game was Han Sing's Cubic Island.
• I owe 11 participants the participant fee which was cancelled. I hope they will be patient.
• I have personally found a successor for GDC.
• Her name is Lim Hui Wen or Iris as she is known here in MMU.
• I still need to hold a meeting with the committee to decide if they agree with my decision.
• The GDC committee meeting should be on Monday night.
• Followed by another meeting on Tuesday night with the incoming President.
• It has not been easy to look for the next GDC President. My other choices were Zaki and Kuan. Both are excellent choices.
• Zaki's confidence really went down after the last Business Game Workshop testplay. I hope he regains that confidence. If Iris is selected I will recommend to her Zaki to be the publicity manager. If he accepts it, he should be assisted by a strike team of Alex and Augustine.
• Kuan is a very responsible person, but he said he would be pressured. Granted that Iris is selected, Kuan already agreed to help her with the game development related activities of GDC.
• Although she is younger than the other candidates, Iris is wise and has a strong character. She have played games for at least 10 years. She will be in the creative industry and is currently a member of Hatchlings Games.
• Although the committee has not agreed yet, I have faith that they will. Do give her your support

Hatchling Games

• Flash Game for GameBrains
• We were going to do a flash game with a soccer theme.
• Moy and Joshua are handling this one. I don't think it is going too well.
• Moy joined an Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) company, so I hope that Moy will still believe and will contribute to Hatchlings Games.
• Business Game Workshop
• We have to continue our testplay sessions next MMU trimester.
• I will meet up with Lewis Lim, my co-game designer for this edutainment game.
• I will be handling the project to Mary who is very eager about edutainment.
• Since she just started, she still has alot to learn about entrepreneurship.
• She sould be assisted by Hoi Lee and Zaki.
• Project BattleChess
• Zie Aun's brainchild.
• A combination of board strategy and collectible card game.
• We will make it an MMO.
• This is a very exciting project. Most people who have heard it are excited about it.
• The biggest project that Hatchlings Games have ever done.
• I have yet to tell the whole of Hatchlings Games about this project yet as we are still in conceptual stage.
• We will announce it before next week-end when we are scheduled to testplay the game.
• Key found Samin who is an excellent programmer. He will be prototyping the game.
• Revamped Management
• It has been 10 months since the founding of Hatchlings Games.
• So far we have been doing research while testing out some ideas and doing some outsourcing working.
• But now is the time to really start moving forward towards our goals.
• After the Video Game Symposium, Key and I have a renewed mindset and have revamped the our management and operational guidelines.

Electronic Sports World

• WarCraft III: DOTA Reality Show
• My internet was down for a month, and during that month I didn't do much about this.
• I really need to spend more time on this.
• It is a project that I believed in.
• Perhaps its time for me to recruit a few helpers here.
• The main thing to do now is to research and put everything into a coherent business plan.
• To kick things off, I think I will contact someone at TMNet.
• OH, I am REALLY sorry to Goon.

¶ 5:04 PM