My EA experience

[Repugnant Abomination]

As most of you know, the last several months I've been part of the company Faramix Enterprises, working on the game "End". The whole process has been very educational about how an independent video game company works from a business standpoint and from a development standpoint. We've been in, for the last year, what is called preproduction. We've pretty much gone as far as we can now though due to budget constraints. So we sent a pitch package of our stuff to publishers around the world and landed a meeting with EA (Electronic Arts, aka the biggest publisher in the world) for October 16th, 2007.

Mike and I (President/Vice President) drove to Red Wood California where EA's corporate headquarters is located. It's an imposing place, with several 6 story buildings. They pretty much own an entire block...And with over 3 billion dollars in profit last year, I don't blame them.

It was amazing. There was a mini city inside the building, complete with their own starbucks. A massive plasma screen tv was on the wall in the reception area show casing their games, and lining the interior were smaller tv's, where playstation 3's, 360's and wi's were located. The interior was upscale, trendy, and modern. We had to sign into their security log book, and above our company name was Sony and Microsoft. Afterwards we were given security passes and escorted by an assistant to a conference room called "the inner sanctum". We were given a 30 minute setup window, and some IT guys helped us set up our laptop to the screen mounted on the wall.

We ended up presenting to 3 people: The director of business development, the Vice President and some one else on speaker phone. The presentation lasted 45 minutes. They were very impressed, inquisitive, and took several pages of notes. In the end we got a very good feeling about our performance, and afterwards I felt a flood of relief as the high stress situation was finally over. They told us they would contact us this Friday to let us know what the next step, if any, will be. But regardless of if they decide to fund us or not, I have to say it was one of the coolest experiences of my life. I proved to myself that I could walk into the biggest meeting of my life and not only not freeze up, but do very well - that in itself made the whole thing worth it.

Despite how well we did there was (predictably) concern about our age and lack of experience, but it also kind of worked in our favor, as it impressed them even more a "couple of kids" managed to get this far in a highly competitive and cut throat industry.

Ultimately, I give ourselves around a 15% chance of actually getting funded, but that's a 15% chance that a lot of people never get.

[Ugly Bastard]

Good luck.

[ninjaface]

[Mr. Blonde]

Congrats bro, and good luck. Really hope this goes well for you, anytime someone risks their balls to go for something they really WANT to do in life than do the shit they're "supposed to" I'm all about supporting it, no matter what it is.

[Orgazmo]

Very badasses. Ten virgins to you for this. And good luck.

[Ironic Mustache]

Anything come of this?

[Mr. Blonde]

well holy fuck look what the cat dragged in.

[Repugnant Abomination]

He's just here because things are slow over at jiu-jitsu.net

[Ironic Mustache]

No, it's because I didn't think I could post here. When I try to go to the main page it blocks me. I got here by accident and realized I could post. I did a search for one of my old names and it gave me a link to here so I tried it and it worked. The format is all screwed up, and I can't post new threads, or go to some of the other forums though.

[Mr. Blonde]

i thought you were dead. again.

[Ironic Mustache]

I might as well be. I'm working full time, going to school full time, and volunteering with the red cross most fridays and saturdays. I almost wish I were dead.

[Repugnant Abomination]

Originally Posted by Ironic Mustache

Ivolunteering with the red cross most fridays and saturdays.

Are they handing out free booze or something?

[Ironic Mustache]

No but Med schools look for 200-400 volunteer work hours and i don't want to be doing it when I'm supposed to be studying for the MCAT.

[Mr. Blonde]

Are med schools handing out free booze or something?

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

Will you be my proctologist after you get your degree?

and have you tried just typing the url nubblies.net?

[Ironic Mustache]

No med schools aren't handing out free booze, but by the time I'm done I'll be able to afford booze for the rest of my life.

Type the url nubblies.net? I hadn't thought of that! What a great idea! I think I'll go ahead and see if that will work right now. Wow. Sometimes the answer is right in front of you and you don't even see it.

[Repugnant Abomination]

I hope you posting here becomes a regular thing, Wayne...I've missed you.

<3<3<3<3<3Wayne<3<3<3<3<3<3

[Ironic Mustache]

I'm at the mercy of whether or not my company blocks various forums.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

they sell computers at walmart for 250 dollars

[Ironic Mustache]

Nooooooooooooooo.......... Walmart? You don't say. Wow, I never would have though of that. Computers eh? At Walmart! What they wont think of next. I think I'll stop off at Walmart on one of my 3, five second breaks in a day and purchase one. Then I'll use my other spare 10 seconds to post from home! Splendid ID, splendid!

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

Awesome, did you just use your ten seconds now or what? Do you have anymore breaks today?

[Ironic Mustache]

I don't count my breaks while I'm at work, that's why I post. What I'm lacking is spare time.

BTW, I was going to try to be overly sarcastic on this post too but I couldn't figure out how to make it work.

[Repugnant Abomination]

Damn, Mr. Mustache is sticking it to the dork today.

[Ironic Mustache]

I apologize, it's not him it's me.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

It really disturbs me when people don't have a computer and internet connection at home. How do they masturbate?