tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258416812011-07-28T14:40:46.426-07:00Insert Coin to PlayTHIS SPACE FOR RENTA. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-29698138849054675862010-01-13T05:53:00.000-08:002010-01-13T06:00:01.207-08:00-- I'M OUTTA HEEEAAAH!! --In an effort to increase my e-visibility and establish a more concrete online-dentity (both words Copyright: me, btw), I'm moving up and out! I've got my very own website now, and my journey into adulthood has finally come to an end. If you've got a minute to spare, head on over to my new place and take a look around.It's pretty bare-bones right now, but eventually I'll A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-57007356468424612892009-10-08T06:22:00.000-07:002009-10-08T06:25:59.476-07:00--ADDENDUMDUM!--I just noticed that my previous posted is dated from when I first started to write it, instead of when I posted it. So just for reference, it was posted on October 8, 2009 at about...oh, let's say 10:20PM JPN time.And to add some value to this post, this is the sound you will hear as the robots burn your house and carry you off to the copper mines. The horror...the horror...A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-85591425410112573272009-07-25T12:12:00.000-07:002009-10-08T06:05:37.464-07:00--I THINK I'M TURNING--Good question, right? I've been a non-entity here for a while. Time to start back up!-----Note: the following was originally written over 2 months ago, just before leaving for JapanThe current time is 12:20 PST and I'll be boarding my flight for Japan in about 30 minutes. I'm sitting here in the SKY LOUNGE, feeling very pampered, sipping on a grape juice, and thanking all A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-41792658589374560862009-06-01T19:36:00.000-07:002009-06-01T19:47:45.684-07:00--DON, TELL HIM WHAT HE'S WON!--Why, it's an all-expenses paid, minimum one-year stay in bea-uuuutiful Mie, Japan! This cozy seaside prefecture is nestled away in the southern region of Honshu, Japan's main island! You will find yourself within easy reach of many of Japan's biggest cities, including Kyoto, Osaka, and Nagoya, yet far enough away from the hustle and bustle to retreat into a gentle A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-83405737396026483842009-04-07T19:29:00.000-07:002009-04-07T19:43:45.586-07:00--THE SIMPSONS ARE GOING TO JAPAN!--Okay, maybe not the Simpsons. Maybe just me. Actually, it is just me. Because I was selected by the good folks at JET International, Inc. Co.; Ltd. to teach my very special brand of English in Japan starting this August!I just got my results earlier this afternoon, and while my gruff, grizzled exterior showed nary a crack or crevice of joy, my soft gooey A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-60309166438201995212009-02-28T22:14:00.001-08:002009-02-28T22:34:33.420-08:00--THE ORIGIN STORY--This isn't exactly an "origin story", but that's a pretty catchy title, right? So today I'm gonna post up the Statement of Purpose (SoP) I wrote for the JET application, and I'll talk a little about the application itself too. For those who are unfamiliar, the SoP is a 2-page max essay, double spaced, in which you do your damndest to sell yourself to the people at JET.The A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-79932142204275246272009-02-20T17:45:00.000-08:002009-02-20T17:52:31.406-08:00--HE SHOOTS, HE...!--Won't know if he scored until the end of April!So I had my JET interview today up in Little Tokyo. All in all, not a bad day. Traffic going up was nice, coming back was slow but not terrible. Here's a summary I wrote up while I could still remember. Beware: it is quite long and probably not all that interesting. But maybe anyone else interviewing in LA next week will find A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-68289192399353394542009-02-13T23:57:00.000-08:002009-02-14T00:26:46.582-08:00--OH MAN THAT WAS A CLOSE ONE--I think there's an Internet bloglaw that says if you don't post in your blog for one full year, you give up all rights to that blog and anyone who wanders in and starts squatting gets official rights to it. I first read about this bloglaw on Bob Loblaw's Law Blog.Anyway, a fair bit has changed since my last post from the innocent and halcyon days of early 2008, and A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-79797514732629823682008-02-26T15:12:00.000-08:002008-02-26T15:35:34.678-08:00--SUNDRIES & MISCELLANY--Well here we are again. I've discovered that it's very hard to talk about your job as a game editor/writer when the project you're working on hasn't been announced yet. It's not like being a designer or a programmer, where you can talk in veiled terms about interesting problems you solved or discussions you had. All I can say is, "I edited some text today, and this one A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-879979020638115162008-01-03T18:01:00.000-08:002008-01-03T18:07:16.279-08:00--WHERE'S MY DERANGED POP-LOCKING INDIAN MIDGET?--Right here! This is seriously the strangest shit I've seen on the Interwebs in a good long while.What's it got to do with games? Who cares! Make sure to watch all the way to the very end.A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-77969743394358852752007-12-27T13:07:00.000-08:002007-12-27T13:17:46.472-08:00--AND THE VOTES ARE IN--And boy did the Japanese guys ever not like my game ideas. Not surprising, given they're high-fantasy traditional-RPG die-hards (m-m-multihyphen!). I already knew my tastes didn't sync up with theirs, but I still had fun coming up with the concepts. Who knows - maybe someday I'll be in a position to actually flesh them out and use them somewhere else down the line.In otherA. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-6252928334475180302007-12-19T22:22:00.001-08:002007-12-19T22:40:54.203-08:00--SO I HAVEN'T POSTED IN FOREVER, BIG WHOOP--Wanna fight about it, tough guy? Didn't think so. Well I still don't have much to talk about, except how I've been spending the last few days coming up with a couple story ideas for a JRPG (probably) NIS America is funding/publishing/helping to develop. I'm not the only person working on story ideas, but I AM the awesomest. I've put together two basic A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-39031932571811946012007-10-23T11:10:00.000-07:002007-10-23T17:46:24.249-07:00--THE HILLS HAVE FIRES--Pretty much all of Southern California is burning to the ground right now, and when I got to work yesterday the entire office was coated in a fine mist of dust and ash. We're only a couple miles from the fires in Irvine, but because we're on the 'safe' side, we still have the pleasure of coming in to work. In the midst of all this, I'm neck-deep in the graphic novel I'm A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-56839463747255102962007-09-17T17:49:00.000-07:002007-09-17T18:12:30.527-07:00--AUSTIN, AUSTOUT--So I've been back from Austin for a while, and now that I have a few spare minutes, I figured I'd hit some of the highlights of the truly Texalicious event.-There was much gnashing of teeth and stamping of feet over the position of "narrative designer" (not really, but we need some drama here). If you don't know what a narrative designer is, join the club. Apparently, they're A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-12995088659052189482007-08-30T22:06:00.000-07:002007-08-30T22:44:41.751-07:00--AUSTIN AND WRITING AND BOOZE, OH MY!--First of all, I really need to update more often, but unfortunately there's not too much going on right now (that I'm free to talk about). I just finished the edits on my MYSTERY DS GAME, so that's finished, and I'm waiting to hear back on preliminary story notes on my OTHER MYSTERY DS GAME, so not much on that front, either.However, next week I'll be goingA. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-6911428626117187492007-08-10T16:47:00.000-07:002007-08-10T17:00:49.311-07:00--MY FREE SCHWAG BRINGS ALL THE FANBOYS TO THE YARD--So just recently our parent company in Japan (Nippon Ichi Software) went public, a highly mysterious and arcane ritual that, as I understand it, can increase the latent power of an entity by orders of magnitude. This was back in June. Fast-forward to last week, when we get a huge box in the mail. Stamped as an international package from our ownA. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-90418452556464965522007-08-08T19:56:00.000-07:002007-08-08T20:14:47.467-07:00--THE DESERT OF SUMMER--So it's the middle of Summer and at work it's the friggin' doldrums. Now I know at most jobs, having no work to do is a very, very good thing. But when you write for a video game company, what more could you hope for than to...write? But I wanted to post something anyway, so I'm just gonna write some really cryptic stuff about upcoming projects.-We just got the Japanese A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-46798772835760045832007-07-18T00:19:00.000-07:002007-07-18T00:20:40.634-07:00--DISGAEA 3 WAS ANNOUNCED FOR PS3 TODAY IN JAPAN--And man are people pissed.A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-34581856761965486072007-07-16T16:39:00.000-07:002007-07-18T00:25:26.680-07:00--THE FANS--I just sent out one of the last bug sheets for Soul Nomad, and I have a few minutes to spare. So I thought I'd share with you some of the comments we've received from our fans. In the back of each game manual is a survey card with some questions and a comment section for people to fill out. The following are some examples of the types of comments our fans send us (assume all spelling,A. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25841681.post-52506812512500275402007-07-10T23:58:00.000-07:002007-07-11T00:19:48.576-07:00--FUN WITH WORDS--I've had this blog forever and it's a damn shame that it's going to waste like this. But no more! I shall fill it with knowledge just as a caring mother bird fills its crying chick with the warm mush of a wriggling earthworm! At some point I'll try to post something useful, but for now gorge yourself on the leftovers of tonight's office banquet.Recently our company (the JapaneseA. Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290633544826929539noreply@blogger.com0