Dave Gilbert’s gamedev blog

So I’m in my hotel room, finalizing dialog for the recording session tomorrow, while watching the election returns on the room TV. Barack Obama has just been announced as the 44th president of the united states.

My hotel is located in Union Square, a pretty populated area of San Francisco. For the last several hours, I have heard cars honking, music playing, people shouting with joy and dancing in the streets. I actually opened up my window and shouted “Yeahhhh!!!” into the night. This city is erupting into crazy mad joy.

It’s pretty amazing to witness such a historic moment. As lame as it is to blog about it, this has been the most inspiring campaign I have ever watched. This is frigging history. I’m a bit overwhelmed.

Not much else to say, really.

So. Finally! After ten months of working in secrecy, the infamous PlayFirst game – a noirish take on the Oz universe called Emerald City Confidential – has been announced! After much fanfare, hype, and being deliberately enigmatic you’d think I’d dedicate several hours to updating my website with all the news.

Instead, I became stupidly stupidly ill.

After the last recording session on Friday, I found myself mega exhausted. I thought it was just jetlag, but I was wrong. I crawled back to my hotel room Friday evening and collapsed into bed. A few hours later, I awoke with a definite fever was radiating off of me. So, I basically spent my first free Saturday in San Francisco alternating between my hotel bed and bathroom. Fun times.

Anyway, I’m doing much better now. But even so, I’m sure you don’t want to read details about my germ infestation, you’d rather read about the game instead!