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It was only Thursday before last that I found out I was heading to Austin for the Austin Game Developers Conference and some Tabula Rasa themed events. Since then I've taken a ton of pictures, hung out with some industry legends, had a childhood dream come true, inadvertantly LARPed with Richard Garriott, and taken a metric asston of pictures. Here's a rundown of what I did on my trip to the Texas state capitol. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=298041&view=rss&microfeed=true In my defense, I was on some very nice anti-motion sickness drugs and being crushed by tremendous g-forces, so me calling Crecente a fucker should be in no way take away from my deep love for the man. It's very hard to keep your camera steady once weightlessness kicks in, so mind the spinning. Perhaps I should have issued you guys those meds. Hit the jump for a peek at Super Garriott! More »
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When I was a child, all of my friends wanted to grow up to be astronauts. As the world gets smaller and smaller thanks to the internet and advances in communication, outer space is one of the few places that still hold the kind of fascinating mystery that young people used to find in far-away places on our own planet. As a science fiction geek, every now and then I still entertain the fantasy that I will one day journey into the stars to float weightless in a space station somewhere, so when NCsoft offered me the chance to go on a Zero G flight, I naturally jumped at the chance. More than a few childhood dreams were fulfilled this day as Richard Garriott led a group of game industry press and executives on a technological flight of fantasy. More »
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Well my Zero G Flight experience is now over, and I am left with nothing but a tummy ache and a bag of swag to commemorate the event. While I am still busy putting the whole experience into words, I thought I would go ahead and give you guys an idea of what I walked away from the event with materially, so you can see how little material things matter when I recount the experience as a whole. Here you can see the commemorative photo of our flight, a Zero G t-shirt, the special socks they issued us, the one bag to hold it all, and last but not least, the flight suit. That little baby fit me like a glove, but only if the glove were on my crotch and three sizes too small. More on that later. For now, a gallery. More »
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See those happy, healthy, pretty people? They are enjoying the Zero G experience in a healthy and pretty fashion. I am showing you this so you can come back to this picture later and compare it with my own experience. You see, I have been invited to participate in a Zero G flight this morning as part of a giveaway during last night's Tabula Rasa event and I guarantee you I will look nothing like these people as the parabolic maneuver makes me weightless for 30 seconds (no mean feat). What will I look like? I am imagining vomit floating gracefully through the air as Swan Lake plays in the background. Stay tuned for more details later today, and wish me luck! More »
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