{"id":50758,"date":"2001-07-27T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2001-07-27T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2001\/07\/27\/updates-and-life-things-arent-so-bad\/"},"modified":"2001-07-27T05:00:06","modified_gmt":"2001-07-27T05:00:06","slug":"updates-and-life-things-arent-so-bad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2001\/07\/27\/updates-and-life-things-arent-so-bad-2\/","title":{"rendered":"updates and life – things aren\u2019t so bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

updates and life<\/b><\/u> – things aren’t so bad<\/p>\n

Well, it’s been a good day mostly. I get to go make a few hours pay tomorrow
\nafternoon and my night at the Dojo went OK. Tomorrow (Friday) night I am going
\nto go see Tatsumi<\/a> and
\nthat is always a pleasure \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

In the big news,
\nMajestic<\/a> is really living up to it’s hype. Kimiko and I have had a good time
\nplaying it – though I have to admit that Kimiko has been able to get much deeper
\ninto it than I have. That’s OK, because as you will find out it looks like it is
\npaying off really well for us.<\/p>\n

I know this seems like an odd time for us to be getting distracted by a game,
\nbut I don’t see it that way. things have really started to happen for
\n
the company<\/a> now
\nthat we have cast aside our pretensions at being a traditional web company and
\nembraced our gaming and character development roots. Not only does it look like
\nthe market is much more willing to look at us now that they don’t see us as just
\nanother of
a billion
\n"dotcoms"<\/a> but we are much clearer in purpose internally.<\/p>\n

To that end, the time we spend studying how Majestic and the Majestic
\n
fan community<\/a>
\nare working has already helped us validate some of our assumptions and is
\nproviding us with a real boost to our confidence. It seems like the things we
\nthink will work are working – and it also looks like we can bypass some of the
\nproblems they are having.<\/p>\n

To be clear, the project we call "catapult" on our website is a project that
\nshares some of the more interesting market elements of Majestic – but catapult
\nis a totally different beast. Where Majestic is in episodes, catapult is
\nconstantly moving. The person who joins tomorrow will simply not be landing in
\nthe same universe that you landed in today when you joined.<\/p>\n

I think both paradigms are powerful – Majestic reads like a novel, catapult
\nis more like an immersive role play game. Speaking of novels, Majestic reminds
\nme of the first real interactive fiction story called "
Portal<\/a>"
\nthat really made an impression on the world. Sadly I cannot find a copy of the
\ngame itself, though I would love to<\/i><\/b> the story was re-written as a
\n

\nbook<\/a> that is out of print. Maybe someday I’ll own a copy *sigh*.<\/p>\n

So the big news is that while playing Majestic Kimiko ran into a fairly heave
\nguy in the game industry (and yeah, we have reason to believe it’s the real guy)
\nand talked to him a little about our company and our projects. it’s along shot,
\nbut he expressed interest in what we are doing and wants to talk again. <\/p>\n

Ah well, that’s all for now – but we are making huge leaps I think. Just goes
\nto show you what can happen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

updates and life – things aren’t so bad Well, it’s been a good day mostly. I get to go make a few hours pay tomorrow afternoon and my night at the Dojo went OK. Tomorrow (Friday) night I am going to go see Tatsumi and that is always a pleasure \ud83d\ude42 In the big news, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50758"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}