New Game: Puzzle Pets & Anino Anniversary on May 4, 2012 in games academe studies career Sorta New Game Well... Puzzle Pets Adventure, the second game I produced for 2012, is not entirely new. I mean, it was softly launched at the end of March. (Yay, we released two of my games on my birth month!) We're still doing some tweaks based...
My First Concert: Hanson's Shout It Out Tour on Mar 31, 2012I just realized that I have never attended a concert before and it just so happened that one of my "guilty pleasure" bands, Hanson, arrived on the month of my birthday. I didn't know how to celebrate my birthday earlier in the month, since I had to...
My Best Birthday Gifts for 2012 on Mar 5, 2012Wow, the last time I posted was in January. But yesterday, which happened to be my birthday, was so inspiring that I really felt like writing about it. As many of you know, I had been so exhausted and stressed over game production work and my doctora...
2011: The Good, The Bad and Some Changes on Dec 31, 2011First off, I would like to greet everyone a HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! From the multimedia industry (game development companies and associations) to the academe to the blogosphere to my wonderful colleagues, my readers, professors, classmates, former...
Hong Kong Nights 2011 on Dec 27, 2011From the moment we arrived in Hong Kong, it was very clear how commercial the entire place was. It was around midnight then but the streets of Kowloon was still buzzing with activity and was very well-lighted. I was actually shocked that we were in...
Siggraph Hong Kong 2011 on Dec 24, 2011I'm actually going to have to divide my posts into three parts: work, night time and day time. Why? Because the entire time I was in HK, I spent most of the daylight inside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center at Wanchai. By the time I'd go...
Singapore and Sitex Expo 2011 on Dec 18, 2011 in travel Today is officially "Chase Blog Backlogs" day. I can only chase one backlog per blog so I'm choosing to post about my Singapore experience last month. Was there from November 25 to 27. Unlike my brief sojourn in Singapore four years ago, which was...
200 Pounds Beauty on Oct 30, 2011 in movies It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon and I never thought I could actually sit down and enjoy a good Korean movie. I remember seeing my former boss' FB status a few days ago, wherein he lamented about how old Asian movies relied a lot on storytelling tha...
Geeky thoughts and friends I've sorely missed on Oct 6, 2011 in games geekery studies literature career business I was already compiling my thoughts on the things that I have wanted to write about but didn't have time to do so and I guess it's only now that I've stolen my own office space that I've actually given myself a brain breather. Goodness, I've got two...
Lords and Colonies: Our new Facebook game! on Sep 16, 2011 in games career Oh, wow, I haven't updated for quite some time. (Because I am now married to my employer, Anino Games, Inc. and UP Diliman is my mistress. Can you name any other lethal combination? If I'm to compare it to George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones, Anino...