We stepped on the plane to New York, and the Minecraft server died. While flying from New York to San Francisco, Tobias managed to get the servers back online via the amazing wonder of in-flight WIFI. I was afraid this would set the tone for the trip, but so far it's been an amazing success.
Sunday was mostly relaxation and shopping (I found a great new coat, but it's a bit too warm for SF), and it ended with a company dinner. We invited the Oxeye guys over as well, and it turned out really good. I had the biggest steak I've ever had, and also had room over to steal some of Jakob’s food.
Monday morning, I met one of my idols for breakfast, and kinda promised him I'd add pet dogs to Minecraft, so I guess that's happening. Then we went to Google, did an interview or two, then went to dinner with a huge gaming company. I kept getting sleepier throughout, so I'm not sure how great of an impression I did. It could play into the whole “indie” thing though to seem uninterested. ;)
Today, we started with a meeting with Curse, the guys running the forums and the wiki these days, and we've got plans to work more closely together in the future. I think they're doing really great things for the community. After a somewhat rushed but excellent lunch, Jakob and I did an interview with PC Gamer, I did a filmed thing for Eurogamer with Chris Hecker.
Then the scariest thing in a long time happened. I went on stage. I talked for three minutes about piracy, mumbled something about “That was quick”, and left the stage. I was scheduled to do a five minute talk, but only managed to fill 60% of it.. People tell me it wasn't as bad as I thought it was.. but they're probably just being polite.
Then I molested Danny B (the guy who made the Super Meat Boy music) for a bit before grabbing a quick dinner and ending up at the craziest party ever where I met a bunch of important and famous people.
Tomorrow is more meetings, and then the big award ceremony. We're nominated in a total of six categories across both the IGF and the GDCA.
I'm nervous.
Ah, I forgot!
We also announced our new game today! There's not much info yet, but we'll be getting an alpha version out as soon as we can!
I figure most people reading this blog cares mostly about Minecraft development, so let me just say that I won't be involved in the day to day development of Scrolls. Jakob, one of the guys I started Mojang with, is developing it, and has been since we started the company.
Still, I hope many of you will check it out once we've got some more stuff to show!
"We stepped on the plane to New York, and the Minecraft server died."
Oh noes
"While flying from New York to San Francisco, Tobias managed to get the servers back online via the amazing wonder of in-flight WIFI."
Yaaay
Gotta love in-flight wifi ^^
I bet you had a wonderfull time.
And btw, scrolls sounds awesome, but it's not innovating as it makes it sound, we already have "several" games like that, but a new one, is more than welcome to fresh us up.
I'm sure you did fine, as a person that has made many horrible speeches / on-stage talks it often feels much worse than it really was. Plus piracy is really quite a large topic...there really is either too much to say, or not enough that actually fits on topic in the time available.
Did you guys notice how he talks about food most of the time... *totally unnecessary evil joke*
But I had to say it...
OOOOh, famouse people...O.o