The MechWarrior Tactics team has posted the latest in their series of posts introducing us to the new team over at Blue Lizard Games (How long are they the ‘new’ guys for? is there some official length of time when they switch from the ‘new guys’ to just ‘the guys’?).
Today, we get introduced to Jorge Cardenas one of the Senior Designers.
I’m not sure we can keep him though, we might need to ask for a new Senior Designer… turns out.. Jorge uses a windows phone!
What type of cell phone do you use (are you an Android or Apple fan)?
None of them, I was an Android user, but the phone slowed down. When I installed like 20 apps on the phone, it didn’t work even for simple calls. I haven’t tried with an iPhone, I think it is a nice phone, but too expensive. Now, I use a Windows Phone – a Nokia Lumia 720. I really like the OS, it doesn’t have as many apps as other ecosystems, but it has what I really need. And until now, the phone has not got stuck or slowed down. Ahhh and of course it is a Nokia. I have dropped it two or three times from considerable heights and it has survived with small scratches.
I guess on the plus side.. he’ll really be able to take advantage of Microsoft buying Nokia.
He does, however, redeem himself when it comes to what his favorite game currently is:
Actually, I have 2 current favorite games. The first one is Starcraft II because since I was a child I have been fond of RTS games. In fact, the first RTS game that I played was Age of Empires I. My other favorite game is Batman Arkham Asylum. It is an amazing game. It has excellent graphics, a good story, incredible gameplay, and a challenging artificial intelligence.
StarCraft II, and Arkham Asylum are both incredibly fun games (and, if he takes some of the RTS aspects of SCII, and tries to adapt them to the TBS game that is MWT.. we could get some interesting things).
While these “introduction” posts are incredibly short (and, don’t touch on their BattleTech experience).. I think they are a great, fun way to introduce the members of the new studio to us. Â Hopefully, the guys will find some time to pop into the forums and interact with the Community directly (not that we don’t love interacting with you Viterbi!). Â They show us the more ‘personal’ side of the team, and I think that’s important in helping people remember that “The Devs” are not some mindless robots cranking out code in a basement somewhere… they’re real people with interests outside of work..and should be treated with respect, even if we don’t agree with all the decisions they’re making.
