Ex-Far Cry 2 Designer goes indie

[barichnikov]

Hey guys, an ex-colleague of mine just started an indie company today after being laid off by EA a few weeks ago.

http://exludis.tumblr.com/post/22714460202/this-is-your-new-life

I thought the thumbs would be interested, as this guy is responsible for many things I heard you guys talk about in Far Cry 2. He's also a reader of the podcast!

Just a heads up basically. Nothing to show yet.

[pabosher]

Sounds like a cool dude. I hope he goes on to do cool, big things!

[brkl]

Surprisingly many Marc-Andres involved with Far Cry 2.

Good luck to him!

[Erkki]

Surprisingly many Marc-Andres involved with Far Cry 2.

Wow! I counted 6. I'm assuming he is the Level Designer Marc-André, though.

[barichnikov]

He is. From what he told me though, the 2 game designers on the project were "excel" designers, balancing spreadsheet and doing pretty old school game design.

Clint Hocking was a Will Wright-type guy, dropping bombs on the design team. The rest of the team had to make sense out of it... lol. Anyway i don't wanna get into that stuff not sure what can be said and can't be said, especially since I'm not the one who actually experienced it

[Salacious Snake]

Clint Hocking was a Will Wright-type guy, dropping bombs on the design team. The rest of the team had to make sense out of it...

So my dream of being the idea guy CAN COME TRUE! This is exactly how I see myself operating.

I'm gonna start dropping bombs on people until someone sees my genius and gives me a major project. I'm starting right now:

Hey guys. We should make a grenade roll down a hill… people will be talking about it for ages.

[toblix]

Thanks for sharing.

[Salacious Snake]

Thanks for sharing.

Toblix has been assimilated.

[ThunderPeel2001]

Toblix has been assimilated.

He's on form today.