News: 'Playing Catch-Up', 'Media Consumption'

September 22, 2005, 08:42 PM

by simoniker, via Gama -
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Not to make this 'all Gama, all the time', but some of you may not have spotted IC uber-ally Frank Cifaldi's two regular columns for biz site Gamasutra, 'Catching Up With' (a more polite version of "Where Are They Now?", Spinal Tap fans), and 'Media Consumption' (dealing with what media game professionals have been, uhh, consuming.)

Anyhow, there's been a lot of updates to the column recently: the rather fun/educative 'Catching Up With' just got a hold of The Fat Man (infamous old The 7th Guest musician), and before that found Ted Woolsey (Final Fantasy translator), David Siller (veteran Aero The Acrobat creator), Dan Kramer (Atari trackball designer), Will Harvey (Zany Golf creator), Howard Scott Warshaw (Yars' Revenge, E.T. for the Atari 2600), Steve Purcell (saintly Sam & Max creator), Al Lowe (captain of the Leisure Suit Larry sloop), and Paul Reiche III (Archon, Star Control creator).

Meanwhile, 'Media Consumption' has also extracted important cultural information on currently favored music, books, DVDs, films, and even games from various creators, including God Of War's David Jaffe, WayForward's Abbie Goldsmith, comic/game writer Paul Jenkins, Death Jr's Chris Charla, Tilted Mill's Keith Zizza, The Godfather's Jenny Ryu, Puzzle Pirates' Daniel James, Treyarch's Jamie Fristrom, Sony Japan's Gregg Tavares, Lionhead's Tadhg Kelly, Double Fine supremo Tim Schafer, and Alien Hominid's mighty fine Dan Paladin. These columns are much fun for of the reading - watch for more.