robbalvey

Yes, by all means it is a job. Do not let the cool pictures fool you into thinking that making video games is anything but 'easy'. Sure it's fun, but we've been on 60-70 hour work weeks for the past 3 months. The ONLY time I've had off is when we went to SDC that one weekend. It's a LOT of really, REALLY hard work. A lot of people always tell me "I wish I could have a job where I sit around and play games all day" and my response is always..."So do I!" --Robb "It's not like people who make movies just sit around and watch movies all day!" Alvey

E3 for some reason also reminds me of a really big "Innoventions"

We will even add the best ones to our avatar gallary so people can show off their work! So dust off your MS Paint or photoshop skills and make some cool or funny Vekoma avatars!!! If you want to upload more than one avatar that you've made, use the first one as 'your avatar' then attatch the others to this thread like you normally would any other photo. If enough people make an avatar, maybe we'll even vote on the best one! --Robb

Hey everyone! I've been having problems with the uploads to the boards and I think I've found a workaround to the problem. Can some people let me know if you are still having problems downloading track files? Thanks! --Robb

^ Awesome. What about the NL tracks? Any luck? --Robb

And the movie has already made it on the usenet forums: http://www.newzbin.com/browse/post/1197583/ --Robb "Damn, that was fast!" Alvey

I haven't had a chance to see much on PS3 yet, so I can't comment. But I will say that what I've seen of Call of Duty on XBOX 360 at our booth looks like a MOVIE! It doesn't even look like a video game! I wish I could be playing games at E3, but I get the job of doing interviews all day. But hey, it comes with the gig! So I can totally believe that Killzone 2 would look that good also! --Robb

Oh, yeah...and check out AOL Games because I did an on camera interview with them today! I have no idea if they'll actually use it. I also did one for a French TV station, but I doubt we'll ever see that here! --Robb

Ok, I think I might have just found a 'work-around' to the problem. See if you can watch the video, see if this .zip file I've attached downloads ok, and can someone check and see if NL files are working again? Thanks! --Robb "Now I want Yahoo to fix this problem for good!!!" Alvey buzzt.zip A thumbnail photo to test and see if .zip downloads are working.

OK, I'm going to speak with Yahoo about this problem. It's ridiculous. They tried to tell me it was the version of WinZip we were all using. That's total B.S. As of right now, I was actually getting better customer service from Lypha. I am NOT a happy Yahoo customer, and if they can't fix this, I'm going to have to change hosts yet again!!! --Robb "And I will make it known with as loud of voice as I can to NOT EVER use Yahoo as a webhost!!!" Alvey

More photos.... "Your papers please?" We also had a cool bunker and a turret to keep out those Medal of Honor spies!!! Our booth was guarded by only the best from American's 1st infantry division. Ahh, this is where I'm calling "my office" for 3 days this week! I asked the sales people and they said they still weren't sure if Kansas City got any more PSP's in stock. Hi Cal...how's it going? If you did want to see "Chang 3" you had to stand in line...just like at an amusement park, but there wasn't a credit at the end of the line, so I didn't bother. At the Sony booth they were welcoming "Chang 3" and I was all "COOL!!! Credit!!!" but I didn't see any B&M stand-ups anywhere. =( And finally, the only game that really matters...Katamari Damacy 2! See more E3 photos on the next page.....

Hey everyone! So today was the 1st day of E3, the huge trade show dedicated to everything videos games. While this might not be completely "theme park related" going to E3 certainly feels like a Theme Park sometimes! This must be one of the biggest trade shows in the world, because from the moment you step into the place it just feels like a billion dollars was spent on it! I was there primarily to show off the game I'm working on "Call of Duty 2:Big Red One" but I did get a few minutes to run around to some other booths and click a few pictures. The show was everything I come to expect from an E3 - BUSY, LOUD, and a TON of games being shown off! This was a particularly more crowded E3 I think mainly because all the major console manufacturers were showing off new hardware. Except that unless you were willing to wait in a long line to see a video, or were there as a member of the press, there wasn't too much to see. But anyway, here are a few photos that I took today....More photos to come later on in this thread so keep reading! "When small just isn't small enough" Nintendo also announced a new GBA, the "Game Boy Micro" as shown here by one of the booth babes. But this is what I came to the Nintendo booth to see! As you can see, this was a VERY popular feature at the booth! There was even a Nintendo DS "Downloading Station" where you could get E3 exlcusive games. I might have to bring my DS to the show tomorrow! This year it was all about the Nintendo DS. Nintendo announced the "Nintendo Revolution" but there wasn't anything that I saw at the booth about it. Even Boba Fett was there to check out the XBOX 360! There were still plenty of current generation XBOX game to play, though. Did I mention how crowded the XBOX booth was??? Microsoft was showing off the XBOX 360, except there wasn't too much to see other than some videos. Ahh, E3....Atari has secured that logo on the building as long as I can remember!

Can you try to upload it again to the site. I just made a change to the extensions control. I really need to figure out what is causing this problem. Images seem to work fine, No Limits tracks seem to work fine, but zip and movie files don't. I dont' get it. Can you also email me the file to robbalvey@aol.com so I can do some more tests. Thanks! --Robb

^ Ok, I added you to the list. Let us know if you can make it. I think it should be pretty fun! So far we've got 13 people. Anyone else? --Robb

Grrr..... --Robb "I'm old, but I feel like I'm 19!" Alvey

Woah. I love this pic: Not sure if it's just the angle that it's at, but it looks like the flat rides are almost on top of each other!!! --Robb

MPEG-1 still seems to be the 'lowest common demoninator' for everyone to be able to download it and view it with no major issues. The few times I have posted a WMV file, people have had problems playing it. I used the Panasonic MPEG-1 compressor plug in for Adobe Premiere and it seems to work pretty good. The other issue is file size. I'd like to keep a 5 minute video at 30 megs or under. Can WMV do that? What do you reccomend? I'd be open to trying other compressors if you have any suggestions and setting suggestions. --Robb

See if those work better....

Yeah, what is with that controller???

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/17/ctv.martin/

http://www.nintendo.com/newsarticle?articleid=5aa8631e-d4a0-45d9-a88c-e5931b807091 Here is what makes me VERY happy about this console: - Backwards compatible to the GameCube - Online downloadable N64, SNES, and NES games. - Plays DVDs (finally!!!) - Cool Nintendo Games! This was cool sounding: So yeah.... --Robb "Post your thoughts!" Alvey

^ What??

Since there are so many new users since the last post in this thread, I figured I'd bump it to get a few more responses....so here goes... BUMP!

LOL at the "I have no idea what this is supposed to be" photo! WTF is it supposed to be?!?!?!? --Robb

^ Hehe, you just quoted part of my resume! --Robb "Was the producer on both Aladdin and Lion King!" Alvey