drahkar ([info]tibbles) wrote,
@ 2004-12-21 00:08:00
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Current mood: contemplative
Current music:Shelter From The Storm - Bob Dylan

Home again, home again
Well, I am finally back in the wonderful Pacific Northwest. I have been here for 2 weeks, though I have been damned busy for all of that time. I finally had time today to through and read all the friend posts from the last 3 weeks. I've made some of the comments that I want to make, but I've got some long posts to make before too long. As soon as I can take the time to do them, I will.

Life update time ;)

I am at my fathers in Anacortes now. I got back from Europe on the 30th of Nov, was in Federal Way for 1 night, then went to GenCon SoCal in LA. I was there until 2 weeks ago exactly (Monday the 6th) with a bunch of good friends and a lot of gamers. It was quite nice.

For work for the last 4 months I have been working on Anachronism, a new card game that is partnered with the History Channel and is basically warriors from the past getting into an arena and beating the crap out of each other. I love it. I like working with history, I like working with the people I'm working with, and I like being in charge of things ;) All of this feels good. I am currently the Production & Line Development Manager, which basically I make sure that there is a product made for the Marketing guys to sell.

I am (likely) going to be back in Seatle permenantly as of Jan 4th. I'll be moving into a house with Dan Carew and Jeff Malcom, two good friends who I've known for some time. We've got a nice big 2500 sq ft house that will fit the 3 of us and as many gamers as feel like showing up. So, yah, it'll be fun times.

The first week back in Seattle I spent working on the Tibbles and Toku eBay store. Mike and Nissa L and I got a bunch of auctions posted, a bunch of L5R and Magic sorted, etc. So far that seems to be going quite well. I look forward to how well it continues to go.

The last year and a half have been crazy. I have been around the US, around Europe, I've lived everywhere and nowhere at the same time, I've changed (a lot), and I'm no longer the same person that many of you know. I look forward to getting to know y'all all over again. I really want to just settle down for a while and just live a simple, stable life for a year or two (or longer, we'll see), but I still have this gnawing wanderlust, so we'll see how that takes to the whole settling down in one place thing.

I've got a couple of other work projects, and some projects just for the fun of it. Overall, I think that it'll be a great couple of next months.

My cell number is 817-992-8037. My email is still d_tibbs@hotmail.com. Feel free to drop me a line if you want to hang out sometime.

Life is smiling.


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[info]skynock
2004-12-21 05:12 pm UTC (link)
So do we get Alexander the Great vs Gehngis Khan?

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[info]tibbles
2004-12-21 05:14 pm UTC (link)
*nods* Alexander is in the first set, Gehngis Khan is in the second set.

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[info]skynock
2004-12-21 05:15 pm UTC (link)
I might have to play this game...being a history major and all. Hows the art?

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[info]tibbles
2004-12-21 05:18 pm UTC (link)
It's amazing. Justin Walsh (2000 L5R world champ) is our art director, and our artists include some of the best L5R and Magic arists out there. We'll have a bunch of art going up on our website in mid-Jan, and the game releases in mid-March.

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fun
[info]gkp79
2004-12-22 08:21 pm UTC (link)
Steve demoed this for me at Socal and I thought it was quite a fun little game. Good job :)

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Re: fun
[info]tibbles
2004-12-24 07:56 pm UTC (link)
*bow* Thanks! It is a great project to work on, and lots of fun. I look forward to working on it for quite a while.

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[info]skynock
2004-12-21 05:19 pm UTC (link)
What and cool idea, so many heros to choose from. Are they going with any mythical ones like Achilles?

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[info]tibbles
2004-12-21 05:21 pm UTC (link)
Achilles is in the first set.

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[info]skynock
2004-12-21 05:24 pm UTC (link)
well cool good luck with it, you got me interested.

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[info]ladieophilia
2004-12-22 03:25 am UTC (link)
*kiss*

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[info]ladieophilia
2004-12-23 04:01 am UTC (link)
My friend asks is it going to play like L5R or more like Magic?
But this sounds like a game, so far, that I might really like to play. I dunno...I really like L5R but I can't get into the card game aspect, as you know. Will it be something that I could pick up???

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[info]tibbles
2004-12-24 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Neither. You don't shuffle cards at any time in the game, a tournament deck is 25 cards. There is no random drawing, you set everything up blind at the beginning of each of 5 fights, and it is fast. It is more like a miniatures game with cards then an actual card game, as you are on a board/grid and play on that by moving cards around, a opposed to playing on an imaginary field with no defined positioning.

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hmm
[info]bhagwanx
2004-12-23 05:20 am UTC (link)
Are there pirates and monkeys? All of my games had monkeys. Well, maybe one of my games. Okay, it was all a big joke on poor Toku. But there were pirates. If by pirates you mean boats, and by boats you mean....Look, a Monkey!

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Re: hmm
[info]tibbles
2004-12-24 07:58 pm UTC (link)
Pirates are going to be in the 3rd set, and, of course, where there are pirates, there will be monkeys ;) How could there not be?

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Hey, Dan
[info]kittenonthekeys
2004-12-23 06:50 pm UTC (link)
Just on a tangent thought here...

Is there every a moment that we are not changing?

I know that certain core parts of my personality don't necessarily change, or if they do, it takes time or those 'big' moments.

Btw, if I've not said so, Anachronism is excellent and I wish all of you the best of luck with it. Oh, and btw, are you going to do a Joan of Arc? *nudge* Any other female warriors, eh?

And it seems I still have to come up to Seattle, doesn't it? *L*

Anyway, *hugs* see you in a week or so.

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Re: Hey, Dan
[info]tibbles
2004-12-24 08:16 pm UTC (link)
Yes, we are changing on a fairly consistant basis, but we are also only finding it a rarity that we change in noticable ways, which is usually what people mean when they say "I have changed."

Thanks! It is a lot of fun, and it is looking good. Yes, we will be doing Joan of Arc. There are 3 female warriors in teh first set.

Yes, you do need to come to seattle. Also, I might not make it to KC, we'll see. I'll let you know when I know.

*hugs*

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Re: Hey, Dan
[info]kittenonthekeys
2004-12-26 05:43 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the info! *sunshines*

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[info]kayvonegative
2005-02-05 04:02 pm UTC (link)
Hi. My name is Kayvon. You don't know me. The reason I'm writing in your journal is that I googled an old friend, Howard Gilbraith, and you mentioned his name in your livejournal. I lost contact with him a few years ago and I am curious what he's up to. Do you have his number or email? I'd like to find out how/where he is.

thanks!

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