San Francisco World Tour: Post 6

GDC has come to a close...

By the end of day 2 we had to sit a bit while spreading the word:

Day 3 we had our energy back

Here is a view of our booth from above.

One weird thing at the show was a device that let you "smell" games. Our very own Jason Williams found this a little discriminating:

All in all, it was a great show. We met some great people, and are looking forward to working with several of them.

After the show we quickly broke down our booth and rushed to a meeting at Goodby. Goodby is at Grant and California, on the corner of one of the steepest inclines in the city.

After the tour of Goodby, we went out with Bryan and Brian from Booyah to discuss what sounds like a fantastic potential project:

After that we headed to dinner with our good friends from Junction Point

Three years of Shane and Ryan

Today we celebrate the 3 year anniversary of when Shane Minshew and Ryan Cullen joined Powerhouse Animation! We hired them for the first Compass Learning job we did, and now Shane is heading up the Compass Learning team here at the studio.

We drank a toast to the occasion, then chained them back to their desks.

San Francisco World Tour: Post 5

GDC opened today, and everyone is taking a much needed rest. The team put in a good stretch of 9 hours of talking about animation and spreading the good news of Powerhouse.

Our neighbors, Rightscale, got a bar mid way through the day. Which helped our already pretty steady foot traffic.

The bartender was Bien, and a really good guy, willing to trade Powerhouse schwag for drinks.  Unfortunately, since we never got a chance for breakfast or lunch having too many drinks would have been very dangerous.

After the con, we went down to Chinatown with a group from Bioware

Eric Estrada ate there once, so we knew it had to be good.

San Francisco World Tour: Post 4

If you make it to GDC come find us at booth 605. Here is a map if you need it. That's our booth there:

Here is the floor marker for the booth.

The booth is setup and ready for the throngs of folks to descend on it tomorrow morning.

Some of the other booths are pretty fancy:

There may or may not be duct tape involved in our setup.

Wish us luck as the masses are invited onto the Exhibit Floor tomorrow. We hope to meet lots of new and interesting people and spread the Powerhouse message of joy and creativity to everyone in attendance.

San Francisco World Tour: Post 3

Not a lot of time to write today, here are some images until we can fill it in: