http://www.benbastian.com/blog It's all fun and games until.. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:58:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1976. In four short years Atari corporation had gone from a start up to a company worth around 28 million dollars, having been sold for around that amount by its founder, Nolan Bushnell, to Warner Communications. Its success rested heavily on a single game; Pong, which had been a ... http://www.benbastian.com/blog/?p=182 http://www.codemystics.com/halo2600/ http://www.benbastian.com/blog/?p=183 It's amazing that somebody can be so expressive with just one syllable. 'Da'. That's me. 'Da-Da' (sa-sa) That's Sophia. 'Daa-Daa'. That's grandad. DA!, DA!. (intoned like Woof! Woof!) That's a dog. 'Daa'. that's 'ta' or thankyou, but is only really used when she wants something (which she invariably points ... http://www.benbastian.com/blog/?p=181 I need to get back to 1985. My current project, for those not in the know, is Game Room for Microsoft - basically bringing old arcade games back to life. There's a fair bit of code involved, not because we're changing the games, far from it we're trying to make ... http://www.benbastian.com/blog/?p=180 Tantalus Brisbane's last game. Drift street international is stripped down bare knuckle street racing through cities around the world. We made this with just 7 people over three months under what would have to be some of the most difficult circumstances I've ever made a game under. Myself as associate ... http://www.benbastian.com/blog/?p=179 I think that I prefer handheld development to the larger consoles. Sure, the larger systems can be more forgiving, and it is the cutting edge, but I really enjoy working on the smaller teams that goes with hand held, and it's nice to be able to have turnaround times of ... http://www.benbastian.com/blog/?p=178 Tantalus Brisbane have put the final touches on a new game. It should be available in the next couple of months. I'll post more information when I can. For the last little part of that game I've been acting as producer - a role I've wanted in game development since ... http://www.benbastian.com/blog/?p=177 Nobody has told me either way, but I'm guessing that as the game will be in the stores in the next week or so, I can spill the beans; the game I worked on for the first part of this year was Cars Race-o-Rama for the nintendo DS. I had quite ... http://www.benbastian.com/blog/?p=176 Sorry for the silence - not surprisingly I guess, things on the blog front become quieter as I get busier. Work is starting to get busyish - we're less than three days until alpha, and well, other things have been keeping me preoccupied. Top and chief amongst these is the ... http://www.benbastian.com/blog/?p=175 As requested, so delivered. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Plan B. So I have recently started working once again for Tantalus, who have recently opened a studio in Brisbane, currently five people strong. I'm making a DS title, which is a far cry from Xbox360, but oodles of retro ... http://www.benbastian.com/blog/?p=174