A month or so back, I received a email from this gentleman(if game professional can be called that) regarding his interest in some art work on our site, so I invited him over to visit Id.
This gentleman (Indian by birth), working in the game industry in Chicago, has been staying in Pune developing an online game for schools from Chicago. Before that we had briefly met at Asifa IAD (Pune) in 2007, which is annually held at MCCIA, when he had visited our stall on digital Painting.
I took him thru the school & we had a fairly long discussion on various topics related & unrelated to Games. Thus a small visit ended up going on for more than 3 hours. needless to say the exchange was interesting & engaging.
He also showed us, the online game he was developing, one of the reason why he was interested in the our art work as he was looking for artists to work for his game. The scale & scope of the online game he had developed, built on the flash platform was huge & & I told him so.
I don’t know much about Chicago, but the kind of game which helped students had huge scope in India and a lots of people would definitely be interested in his game. Also I liked the way the game looked, both in design & Play.
I had also shown him the board game ’Egyptian Myth’, which was designed by our students and he mentioned while leaving that he would like to come & play the game sometime.
Which he did in a week’s time, where again after playing the game we talked about his experience playing the game and some more other talk. As he was leaving he fished out a book on Realtime Rendering & a Casio digital camera which he quietly passed into my hands. He wanted the students to use the camera to take reference pictures for texturing & artwork development.
It’s pretty unusual for someone who you met just once, to gift you so thoughtfully, thus i had no qualms in accepting it and it is definitely being used in the school.
But that was not all, the next day i received a detailed review of the Board Game ‘Egyptian Myth’ which he had played the previous evening.
All i could say is
Thanks Deepak
Check out games made by Deepak (http://www.kongregate.com/games/enupgames/cabol)
& his site where he gives some tips on making flash based games (www.enupgames.com)
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