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Geek Culture / congrats to lee on popular science quote

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In the October 2007 popular science magazine, there is an article entitled "THE HARD SCIENCE OF MAKING VIDEOGAMES". There is a quote from our founder Lee Bamber about dynamically generating water movement in video games. Congratulations!!

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I was trying to find the article and came across a battle star galactica DVD with this in the review:
Quote: "Jamie Bamber portrays Adama's son Lee, code-named "Apollo.""

Freaky

I can't find the article

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Haha! That's freaky.

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Peter H
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i haven't received that issue yet

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OBese87, the conspiracy has finally been unwound...

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Posted: 8th Sep 2007 18:47
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September just started, where did you get an october issue already?


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Peter H
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Posted: 8th Sep 2007 21:34
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ha, i actually just received my issue a few minutes ago :p

cool to see him quoted in there.

(exact text, taken without permission and hopefully without punishment from my issue)

"Less than a year ago, there wasn't enough processing power to dynamically generate the movement of water in games," says Lee Bamber, a programmer for 20 years and founder of The Game Creators, Ltd.

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Posted: 8th Sep 2007 22:43
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HA! I just got my issue; Lee was quoted in it twice. Now he's got his "5 minutes of fame".

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5 minutes? He's been famous for 20 years!
Kinda

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Posted: 9th Sep 2007 21:13 Edited at: 9th Sep 2007 21:18
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Quote: "Lee was quoted in it twice"

Just got my issue, I have yet to find a second quote.

But anyway, congrats to Lee specifically and TGC as a whole for getting in my favorite magazine.

Edit: Found the second quote

Edit 2: Found a third quote. Here are the second and third: "We just don't have the processing power to really do its physics accurately," says Game Creator's Lee Bamber. *and* "We'll have great visuals in the next five years," Bamber says, "but it'll take longer to fire right."

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RickV
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Posted: 10th Sep 2007 14:27
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Can someone scan this in and send it to Lee? I'm sure he'd like to see it in print.

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Hasn't Lee bought a copy?
If they are using 3 quotes why didn't they do an interview?

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We don't have the magazine here in the UK. He was interviewed for well over an hour on the phone!

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Rick:
It would be nice if you (TGC) could write about this in the newsletter. Not word for word (unless you get permission) but referring to a news article is legal AFAIK. Would like to read sort of the whole story rather then a few quotes outside the context.

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Quote: "He was interviewed for well over an hour on the phone!"

I'm glad I'm not paying for that phone bill

Are there only those few quotes used then?

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An hour for 3 quotes? That sucks... What did they ask him about? Plus what was his response, I wanna know.

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