This blog’s been a ghost town, time to fix that.

This spring, a lot’s been going on. A lot of us would have what some focus groups call a life addiction.

So, new office means new break room. Ngmoco upgraded to a new space that can hold nearly 100 people… the last office maxed out at 40.

Office Vend-o-matic

Epic work is going on is all I can say. We’re working really hard to get our next title shipped. Life would be  rough without the free drinks and snacks.

For Cereal.

I finally hit up NYC for a weekend to visit Sean with Jesse and Paul C. coming through as well. Central park was incredible… and I failed hardcore deciding not to bring a cam. We got our cathedral fix.

My 24th happened at the house. Kane, Jesse,  Paul, and Jimmy showed up the night before and surprised me… because apparently they got drunk earlier that week and already committed to it. The party was legit; daytime drinking is so much easier.

And I learned a new game. Witness Amit ass Matani get iced.

Failure to iceblock.

Graham and I have also been trying out dangerous, experimental monitor color calibration techniques.

Monitor Gamma Correction via Anime Expo

Yes, this was all voluntary. Graham chaperoned… we have proof.

By the way, G.Moon is up here for good, job comin’ any day via nuclear turtle… so lets throw in some music for good measure? More posts coming once the next game is handled.

The lead singer from Bloc Party came out with a solo album. It’s pretty solid.

Thx jesse for the tip on these guys, they remind me of Portugal the Man.

An old Trentemøller remix I found that is tits when played extremely loud.

You might need some advil after the last one… I have no idea what Pendulum is doing, but it definitely isn’t drum n’ bass.

So under the suggestion of a few friends after sending out the 10th MMDS e-mail, I’ve decided to go forward with releasing compilation “mixtapes” of sorts of songs that I’m currently digging. These compilations have no restriction to genre or release date (although most tracks, I’d imagine, are newish), contain somewhere around 8-12 songs, and also have my own personally made custom album art (thanks to Mich for the inkblot drawing for the main art). Each compilation has been heavily ID3 re-tagged in an attempt to not clutter up your respective iTunes libraries (more on that below). Simply download the compilation, unzip the archive, add to library, and you’re good to go. The extra details about “Grouping Compilations” you only have to do once, but will aid in cleaning up your Artist list. The only drawback to all of this, however, is that I had to remove the Album name from all the tracks in order for them to group correctly in iTunes, sorry.

So first, do yourself a favor and get your iTunes settings correct (you only have to check one stupid box) to group the compilation into a single entity rather than a ton of singles by different artists. Open up your iTunes Settings (command + , on Macs), navigate to Advanced and do this:

Tracklisting

1. The xx – Intro
2. Miike Snow – Cult Logic
3. edIT – Ants
4. HEALTH – Lost Time (Pictureplane Remix)
5. Friendly Fires – Lovesick
6. (I just noticed I fucked up this first one, there is no track 6. God dammit.)
7. Bloc Party – Flux (Extended 12″ Vinyl Mix)
8. Boys Noize – Sweet Light
9. Tiësto – Love Comes Again (Original 12″ Vinyl Version)
10. Deadmau5 – Strobe
11. The Mamas & Papas – California Dreaming (Benny Benassi Remix)
12. Minus the  Bear – Patiently Waiting
13. Bloc Party – SXRT

→ Download Monospectra Compilation 01 ←

I hope you all enjoy.

Epic Pet Wars now has 29 different available versions in the iTunes App Store. That is more SKUs (unique, different versions) than any other single game in existence in the history of the store. WOOT! This was a pretty huge accomplishment for Amit and I. It took a lot of work but in the end, we’re very pleased. Much props to Michelle for throwing down with some significantly more polished and distinctive pets. There are so many more that I enjoy from this series than from the first. We’re running a promo right now where you can get one of the new pets (Polarstein) plus 10 Respect Points for free. Our game is compatible with iPhone OS 2.2.1+ so get at it. The sky’s the limit, and much more gaming development is going to go down soon.

Download Epic Pet Wars – Unlock Polarstein + 10 Respect Points (Free!)

As far as audio, here’s a surprisingly good remix of one of Bloc Party’s less than great new singles. You really have to imagine yourself in the arena. :]