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Geek Culture / Potentially my last commercial game has been released today, Fight Night 4. It's getting some pretty good reviews :-)

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Jeku
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Posted: 24th Jun 2009 18:39 Edited at: 24th Jun 2009 18:39
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Hey all,

Fight Night 4 for 360/PS3 was the last game I worked on at EA since I parted ways with them. I was responsible for hooking up many of their in-game HUD elements, plus several screens. The best thing I did, and my greatest achievement on the title, was creating the Amateur Tournament Tree screen from scratch. It is a fancy screen that allows the player to pan around the tree, zoom in to any match, and start an event (training, match, simming, etc.).

Anyways, it still feels good to have another game come out that I worked on. I hope to get a copy of the game from a friend because I don't want to shell out full price for it!

Here's a video review from IGN:

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14235163/fight-night-round-4/videos/fightnight4_vdr_062309.html

Any other boxing fans out there? Haven't seen Matt Rock around these parts in a while.

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Seppuku Arts
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I'm tempted to nab it, my housemate has gotten me interested in boxing a bit (he boxes himself) and my other house-mate has Fight Night Round 3 on his PS3 and that was a pretty cool game.

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Posted: 24th Jun 2009 19:07
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A friend of mine is loves the fight night games, I'm pretty sure he's getting this.

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Jeku
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A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into that game. Ok, more sweat than blood and tears. Lots of overtime meals and lots of layoffs--- fun fun fun!

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Posted: 24th Jun 2009 19:26 Edited at: 24th Jun 2009 19:29
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I remember playing the first Fight Night that came to the 360, it was a lot of fun! It was the first game that made me awe at what the 360 could do. I believe Fight night was a tech demo of sorts for the 360, if I remember right.

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Quote: "I hope to get a copy of the game from a friend because I don't want to shell out full price for it!"

That gave me a good chuckle.

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Tried the demo, pretty sleek and smooth unlike it's previous installment in the series...


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I tried the demo, it's not my slice of cake, but tons better than the new UFC game.
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Your last title? You think you're going to get laid-off? I never got into boxing, more UFC than anything.

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A little late, he is laid-off. He was working on this before he left.


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oops, my bad. I thought i heard something awhile back about it, but couldn't remember if it was him or not.

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Yah, now I'm a programmer at Nokia. Not as glamorous as the game industry but there is NO overtime.

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Overtime is great, if you're hourly. Salary workers, not so much (been there, ugh).

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Quote: "Your last title? You think you're going to get laid-off?"

Phaelax, welcome to the party, you're only 6 months late mate

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Looks amazing. If I had an XBox 360 and was more into boxing games, I would maybe get it .

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Grr, I think my ethernet cable is kerfunked or AVG is saying 'no xbox for you' (I just downloaded AVG as my Kaspersky subscription has ran-out and I have my 360 on a network bridge to access the internet, hence the business with AVs) meaning I can't download the demo, which I was hoping to do.

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Quote: "Yah, now I'm a programmer at Nokia. Not as glamorous as the game industry but there is NO overtime. "



Why am the last to know! Did EA lay you off or did you leave? Shock Horror!

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heh,

Oddly this is the game that got me thinking to perhaps finally getting a 360, looks really good.

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Quote: "Why am the last to know! Did EA lay you off or did you leave? Shock Horror!
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Where have all you people been?

I have loved the Fight Night games since the first one... I have been playing the demo of this one since it was available for download. I don't know if it was just the demo but it definitely seemed harder than the previous game... Even on the highest difficulty number 3 was pretty easy to knock the ai out by round 4, but I was having trouble even getting one knock down in the demo...

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Posted: 25th Jun 2009 15:40 Edited at: 25th Jun 2009 15:41
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Quote: "Yah, now I'm a programmer at Nokia. Not as glamorous as the game industry but there is NO overtime."


My friend's Dad is quite high up in Nokia, not far from the directors, and he is quite well paid for it, though he has to go abroad a lot, but at least there's a free phone or a prototype once in a while. I suppose they're not a bad company to work for, though I've never heard anything from the programmers' side, but at least going from EA to Nokia still looks pretty damn good on your CV.

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Thanks people. FN4 might seem more difficult because they've made it completely physics-based now. Sweat and blood are accurately done (i.e. punches on sweat) and the muscles flex properly. It isn't based on repetitive animations and button mashing. Actually they removed the button controls completely from what I remember.

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Hey Jeku,

I work at Nokia too, but here in Brazil!

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@kBessa - Wow, small world

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Posted: 26th Jun 2009 18:28 Edited at: 26th Jun 2009 18:46
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@Jeku: Yeah, it is. A small search on communicator and I can confirm you're away right now, hehehe.

All thanks to the Internet.

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Quote: "Anyways, it still feels good to have another game come out that I worked on. I hope to get a copy of the game from a friend because I don't want to shell out full price for it!"


What? They don't give programmers a free copy of every game they work on? Without the programmers the game is just a bunch of pretty pictures and music. That's so... evil.

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Quote: "What? They don't give programmers a free copy of every game they work on? Without the programmers the game is just a bunch of pretty pictures and music. That's so... evil."


Yeah, that's really evil. How many people work on a project? 100, 150 maximum? A company wouldn't be poor if they gave them all a free copy.

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Well, over at blizzard some of the benefits are:
Quote: "* Play Blizzard games before release in exclusive internal alpha tests
* Three free World of Warcraft and Burning Crusade collector's edition game accounts
* Copies of the following games:
o Warcraft Battle Chest
o StarCraft Battle Chest
o Diablo Battle Chest
o World of Warcraft Battle Chest
* Monthly giveaways including tickets to movies, sporting events, shows, and concerts "

http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/benefits.html

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Your viewing thing sounds interesting, pitty it didn't show in the video review. Hey he said the menus were "slick" though
I bet you'll shed a tear when the next NHL game comes out lol
I downloaded a demo of the current one and it's really fun, I don't understand hockey but meh, I got a hat-trick with Zetterberg in one game!

Good luck with Nokia.
I also have started a new job at a computer repair shop, can't wait to hand my notice in at Blockbuster!

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Quote: "@Jeku: Yeah, it is. A small search on communicator and I can confirm you're away right now, hehehe."


Wow, I haven't touched communicator yet, but I'm surprised you can check my status from another country

We just got a foosball table in the cafeteria so I'm warming up to the laid-back atmosphere of Nokia in contrast to the constant overdrive atmosphere of EA.

Quote: "What? They don't give programmers a free copy of every game they work on? Without the programmers the game is just a bunch of pretty pictures and music. That's so... evil."


Well seeing as I'm no longer an employee, I doubt they'll bother to track me down and mail me a copy. I can pay $20 for a game at the EA store so I just have to get a friend to get it for me

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Cool stuff Jeku. It must be really rewarding seeing your work in a game like this
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