Join the Lassie Street Team this summer!!

In less than 24 hours Mr. MacWilliam will arrive in my humble dwelling! :D And here I am!! Greetings all from Leipzig, Germany and the home of Matt Kempke. He's in the other room packing right now in preparation of our great hiking adventure through the Alps this week. The place looks lovely, although not nearly as much a bachelor pad as it was on my visit three years ago. (you can tell there is a woman living here keeping the place lookign nice) I got to look through all the production material of What Makes You Tick? last night. Whoa, let me tell you, scans of concept art just aren't the same as holding the original sheet of paper and admiring the pencil work. Really impressive stuff, and something of a thing of legend since having it all come to life in the living, breathing world of WMYT. Hope all is well with everyone. Matt and I won't be saying much for the next two weeks, so technical emergencies that require our insight will need to wait. UNLESS, of course, if you represent a game company interested in spending thousands of dollars to commercially publish WMYT and finance a sequel, then we'd encourage you to send us a carrier pidgeon (or owl if you're into that sort of thing) to seek us out on a Swiss mountain top with your offer. Oh, and Matt says 'Hi'. :D

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Hi Greg & Matt, I recommend visiting Lauterbrunnen and hiking the Maennlichen Mountains (take a gondola up though). Also try to visit Zermatt (site of the Matternhorn) and do the early morning train ride to the observatory. But really, you can't go wrong hiking over there. Everything is spectacular. Tucker

Leipzig? Did any of u get to go to the games convention?

What game convention, and when? (Those questions imply 'no' as my answer)

http://www.gc-germany.com It was on the 22-27 of August or something. Apparently its become the big one now E3 is smaller... Tim Schafer (Grim Fandango, Psychonauts) gave a speech at it and stuff, Telltale Games (Sam & Max Series 1) showed off their 'Telltale Tool', that sort of thing. Sounds pretty good from what iv read of it.

Ok, Matt and I are officially back from our adventuring. It's been quite a summer on the road with the Lassie Street Team, and I thank the guys who participated. I had a great summer with ya'll! I'll have to write a featured article about all our adventures, but I'll at least prelude with a note on the results of backpacking with Matt. Lets just say it was VERY productive: the functional specs and methodologies for the LassieAS2 player got hammered out – which has been a major obstacle on moving forward with recent Lassie projects. As I was working on Shepherd, I was realizing that it didn't make a whole lot of sense to just rebuild the editor in a new medium while leaving all the rough edges of Lassie untouched. Why rebuild an inferior tool? So, there was a long hold up of trying to decide exactly what was needed to be built. And now, thanks to some time to think in the mountains with Matt, we've got a clear direction on where to take the engine, and about some things to make with it ;-)

I would be saying that... but this may be the instigating factor behind me going out and getting a new computer given that I can't run Flash CS3 on my G4. It just doesn't make sense to excerpt the effort to build the new Lassie player in something other than ActionScript 3. Why move the tool forward in a medium that is going out of style?

soooo.... the fact that you are running a computer that while it's a dual processor, it is still half the speed of a single core on ANY of the new Macs, isn't enough for you?

Well yeah... and I'm still running OS 10.3, so would need to first upgrade to 10.4. Then, my computer still comes in at about half the system requirement of CS3. Mrrmph. I'll tell ya, if I can attach my current monitor as an extended display of an iMac, I may have to cave in. I do REALLY like my trusty old G4 though. It has been the most faithful and reliable computer I've ever used!

Ummmm..... I hate to make you cave.... but the new iMacs do accept a second monitor (I believe all iMacs have... mine did back in 2000) Double vision. All iMac models let you connect a second display in either extended desktop mode or video mirroring mode. The mini-DVI port connects to DVI displays, VGA monitors and projectors, and S-video and composite devices using the appropriate adapter (sold separately). oh and here's the citation for ya ;-) http://www.apple.com/imac/technology/graphics.html

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