quick update

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Sorry that there are no major game updates today guys. Most of my Tuesday was spent in meetings, which is a good thing because it leads to progress, but not very fruitful information wise from a blogging stand point. We talked a bit about our schedule in the meeting, so I’m hoping we can nail down some firm details on our update plans (i.e. new playlists and more) fairly soon.

Other than that, I just met up with two of our community members who are in Los Angeles on vacation. It’s always great to have community members drop you a line and stop by to say hey and chat a bit about games when they’re in town or the area. It was good to meet you guys (if you’re reading this). Hopefully if you’re in the area tomorrow we can finish that tour of the studio if time permits.

Meanwhile, everyone seems to be digging the AC-130 iPhone App / Game, so if anyone knows a good iPhone developer, send them my way or drop them the link. I’d love to talk with em’. That’s it for today guys, see you tomorrow!

(Random Cell Phone Pic From My Desk)

Things going on today:

- Internal QA on the new multiplayer playlists for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Test found a small bug with Hardcore HQ where Friendly Fire wasn’t enabled. Addressing that. Investigating solutions for the No Perks bug that doesn’t disable slot 1 perks. Overall, it’s going really well though.

- Sending in the new Playlist’s descriptions to production for translation and localizations. Doing this now, so hopefully it’s done with localization by the time the playlists are through QA so there are no unneeded delays.

- Preparing for a friendly Call of Duty 4 tournament with a few other devs (EA dev team, Neversoft dev team, Treyarch dev team) later tonight. We will not be merciful.

Update: Round 1 of the tournament done. We played best out of 3 games of Domination. IW = 3 wins / Neversoft = 0 wins. Undefeated so far. EA Dev Team next.

- Banning a few IPs & users from commenting / posting on the blog. If all you can post is rude, disrespectful, and insulting comments, then you’re not welcomed here. The internet is not a free pass to be an ass to people you don’t know.
In non-work related news, I found this cool new program fro the Mac called Delicious Library 2. Which essentially is used for organizing your movie / game collection. Using the built in iSight camera, you can scan the barcodes of your games and movies, and it adds it to your library w/ full details, cover art, and allows you to see what you paid for it when it released and what it’s worth today. As well as “check it out” to friends and keep tabs on it so you can remember who borrowed what. Pretty cool for any one who has a large movie or game collection. It also let’s you publish your collection to the web or access via iPhone. I can’t believe I never heard of this before now. I’m in the process of organizing my collection with it, you can check out the progress of it here. Just finished scanning in all my NES games last night.

(Update: Full game collection added, complete with cover art for every game.)

Anyways, As soon as the new playlists are translated and done with Quality Assurance, I’ll be sure to let you guys know when you can expect them! Thanks!

Since I’ll be at GDC all week with limited Internet Access (only when I get back to the hotel), I’m going to be doing a series of Quick Updates when I get a chance, such as this. Nothing long, just a quick snapshot of what I’m doing or about to go do, and then at night when I get a chance to really sit down, I’ll do a daily recap of how the day went and anything exciting you guys might want to know about.

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