ThePengwn's blog

I've started a game company with 2 of my friends.  We are just doing it as a side project, but if things work out....you never know.  The end goal is to make Android, iOS, and PC games.  Heck maybe even Xbox Indie games someday.  But for now we are starting with Android because it is the simplest to learn (imo). 

We already have a game up and running and are maybe 2-3 months out from our first release. 

I've always liked Penguins.  I don't really know why.  Part of it came from the movie "Billy Madison", and part from drinking Budice back in the day.  But I always liked them as a kid as well.  And I always wanted to meet a penguin.  I finally figured out how to do it.

Yesterday I went to the Newport Aquarium near Cincinnati and got to meet and pet and hang out with real African Penguins.  It was completely awesome.

I took a ton of pictures and this link should take you to them on my fb page.

I'm kind of in shock right now and there is no where else to talk about this sort of thing. Friends I know in person still think it is impossible to be good friends with someone you never met in real life.....but people on here know the truth........online friendships are real.

I went to PAX/Halofest this year. I had a couple friends move to Seattle last year, so me and my buddy flew out, got extremely drunk, and made it to PAX on Friday. If I had to do it all over again, there would probably be less drinking/hangovers, and more PAX, but it was awesome anyways. So here's a bunch of pictures. We saw Xplay, played a bunch of games, etc, etc. The best part was Halofest though, by far. We played a firefight level of CE that is the second level of H1 and we played some multiplayer on Beaver Creek.

Every summer I run out of games to play. The drought kills my wallet. I end up buying tons of older games, and then never play them that much. I bought Civ Rev the other day after playing Civ World on Facebook. It's fun, but only a small diversion. I bought a 3DS, mostly for Ocarina of Time, but I don't play it as much as I should. I like it for business travel mostly, and so I feel like I should save my games to play when I can't play my Xbox. I play Reach every once in a while, but still it's a small diversion.

Every summer I run out of games to play. The drought kills my wallet. I end up buying tons of older games, and then never play them that much. I bought Civ Rev the other day after playing Civ World on Facebook. It's fun, but only a small diversion. I bought a 3DS, mostly for Ocarina of Time, but I don't play it as much as I should. I like it for business travel mostly, and so I feel like I should save my games to play when I can't play my Xbox. I play Reach every once in a while, but still it's a small diversion.

Reach died for me very quickly.  It just doesn't have maps on par with Valhalla or Standoff or Guardian.  Or something.  I don't know.  The campaign was awesome, but the multiplayer got boring pretty quickly.  I bought the new maps, but I haven't even popped the Reach disc in to try them out.  Maybe I'll feel a sudden urge to play Halo again at some point, but right now I have no desire at all to play it.

Reach died for me very quickly.  It just doesn't have maps on par with Valhalla or Standoff or Guardian.  Or something.  I don't know.  The campaign was awesome, but the multiplayer got boring pretty quickly.  I bought the new maps, but I haven't even popped the Reach disc in to try them out.  Maybe I'll feel a sudden urge to play Halo again at some point, but right now I have no desire at all to play it.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is one of the best games ever created in the history of the universe and it is a shame more people on 2o2p don't play it.  At least it doesn't seem like many people play it.  It should be up there with all the must-buy games.  I think it might even be my game of the year, which is saying something considering how much I loved Reach and Red Dead Redemption.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is one of the best games ever created in the history of the universe and it is a shame more people on 2o2p don't play it.  At least it doesn't seem like many people play it.  It should be up there with all the must-buy games.  I think it might even be my game of the year, which is saying something considering how much I loved Reach and Red Dead Redemption.