Travail was announced at the last QExpo and with 8 months to go, it would be sweet to have our mod released. Much work is complete and the momentum is strong on this project. 

Hello my once-every-33-people brothers. 

I don't. Never. The only program I run in fullscreen is my IDE. Yeah. 

I run Opera full screen most of the time, and my res is pretty high (1920x1200, as I am always bragging).

I have the sidepanels visible most of the time, although this is to take up a the extra space for widescreen, because there certainly aren't many websites designed with that in mind.

Answers to questions:
Shallow: First Japan, then the UK if I can't get a job here. Might talk to the gf and see what she thinks of going to the US, since there are a lot of good jobs going there, and the pay is better, cost of living lower (like, what the fuck?)

MWH: No, I don't think so. I was there from October 2002 until June 2005 and don't remember that name. There was only one other Matt I remember, and his surname was not Newport. Was he a coder or artist? Did he work at Rebellion or 2000AD? 

Ok, I finally stopped pissing about with that damn portfolio and just applied for a job. I sent the link to the portfolio in the email, and I hope to god that the damn site works properly now.

Anyway, I added the ability to shift click an image and open it in a new window. I got fed up of messing about with it after that, so that's all I did. 

I saw 28 posts in GA, and I thought "ooh, flame war".

And it turns out to be people just trying to help out than :( 

I like this "interpretation":
http://viaggg.free.fr/boulots/shambviag_low.jpg
http://www.besmella-quake.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3530&highlight=#3530

The claws are a bit too thin maybe but the rest is great in my opinion. 

What are the usual working hrs in Japan and USA gamedev? (isnt it like 50 work hours weeks in the Land of the Rising Sun and constant crunch 100 hrs in the Land of Bush) 

Far too furry.
Claws too thin.
Teeth too sharp.
Not bulky enough.

Tis a nice picture though. People still aren't capturing the essence of the shambler I think. 

OK, can't remember when he left, was probably around the time you joined, or not that long after. He was a coder and worked for Rebellion (he worked on Gunlok, iirc). 

http://www.geocities.com/leedlebeetle/QK_marine_shambler.jpg 

I like that Shambler pic, but yeah, what Shambler said. Still I think it kind of gets the essense of a Shambler, and does a better job than any other interpretation I've seen.

As for working hours, well, I think it's pretty much the same shit wherever you go. If you are on a project at the end of development, you are going to get pretty knackered. At the start of a project it can be fairly relaxed. I think hours depend more on the company and people there.

However, I've heard from some people that Japanese game devs can be cunts, and that the employees feel obliged to work their asses off for the good of the company. Having not worked in such a place yet, I can't really give any further comment.

I've also heard that people start work later here than in other countries, and work until later. That's fine by me, especially if it's flexitime style where you can show up between say 9 and 11 and work until between 6 and 8. 

Holy shit, I thought the horizon was looking pretty barren, but then someone sent me this...
http://www.adrianwerner.neostrada.pl/1/final.htm

Ok, so they aren't all guaranteed to come out this year, but there are still a fuckload of games that look awesome on that list.

I nearly wet myself when I saw some of the adventure games on there. UNF! 

I was working there for 3 months and my feeling was that the japanese people worked slow and not effective. Thus they had to stay longer at office to finish they duties. The same work done by a non-japanese was finished in half the time.
And also no one left work earlier then the boss :). Me and my friends could leave the office at 17.00 and it was a strange feeling because everyone was still sitting there and working very hard.
Japan was a great experience anyway. 

atleast there is Vondurs` game 

I think this is the best so far, it's a pretty old pic and seems it's distorted, horizontally stretched somehow.
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/871/shamconback6oz.jpg 

which one is that then? 

heroes of might and majykk five 

Best post ever. 

I was dissapointed by that list because I thought there was nothing but RTS to look forward to... then, after about 10 minutes of scrolling, I made it past the end of the strategy part of the list and realised it was subdivided by genre. I nearly crapped my pants. I never knew there were so many games being made that look so pretty. 

indeed, those screens from the adventures are so yummy. and i've got ankh game already. v.nice one. 

plenty of goodness there:

vondur, agreed, Heroes 5 looks awesome.
Alan Wake looks pretty and its a nice story, looks interesting.
Oblivion is stunning and it's going to eat my life.. haven't been this excited about a game for a long time, if ever.
Generally looking forward to running any Unreal Engine 3.0 game on my pc. 

I never knew there were so many games being made that look so pretty.

Pretty is no longer a reason to be excited.

... still loading the page. :P 

True, but what it means is that the instances of good gameplay spoilt by ass-ugly graphics are decreasing, so that in general games usually have visual appeal these days, and one can pick and choose the ones that play well too. 

and then there's the old saying that since graphics nowadays cost a lot to make, (and they _have_ to be good to sell at all), there's much less possibility of taking risks with some different or innovative gameplay - many of those games resemble each other a lot superficially. (Yah yah it's stupid to say from one screenshot etc...) There's also quite many sequels and remakes in that list.

That Chronic Logic weirdo thing and Gothic(a?) were at least shots that left an impression to my mind. :)

And what's with that Defcon, there already is a strategy game with that name? Are out of game names nowadays?