Justin Sanchez » Gaming

Thinking outside the box

sp4rky — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:58:00 +0000

Jesse Schell gave this presentation at Dice2010 about “Designing Outside the Box” where he talks about how some of the most unexpected gaming success have showed how we have a hunger to get to anything that is real and what the future might possibly look like in the world.

“…we live in a bubble of fake bullshit and we have this hunger to get to anything that is real…”

Xbox 360 Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5

Quakecon 2009

sp4rky — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:50:06 +0000

Quakecon 2009 has come and gone already and I thought I’d post some pictures from the event and post a bit about what all went on this year.

This year Quakecon had over 7,000 visitors and 3,000 people bring their computers to game in the LAN area. Jennifer and I headed down to meet up with our usual buddies to game and have some fun at the event. The very popular and upcoming games BRINK and RAGE were shown to the public for the first time at Quakecon 2009 and I was lucky enough to see both of these presentations and all I will say is those two games are on my get list. We were asked not to take any pictures of either BRINK or RAGE but I tweeted while I was in these presentations and here is what I had to say:

Brink:

When the actual demo started, where one of the game developers takes stage to play the game, the screens on the stage turned to what looked like this very high quality rendered screenshot of the game that publishers use for press material and usually look a bit better than the game because they have been enhanced but then the screen started to move and I along with the rest of the crowd just went awhhh, this game looks insanely amazing!

Tweets

First public demo for the upcoming game Brink is about to happen, time to check it out. 12:54 PM Aug 14th
#Brink looks amazing. Features SMART movement that helps make moving over objects easy. Kind of like a mirrors edge mode. #Quakecon 1:15 PM Aug 14th
7 Player campaign coop mode, Awesome. #Brink #Quakecon 1:25 PM Aug 14th

RAGE:

Waiting in line to get to the Main Stage to see the first public demo of popular upcoming game Rage by id Software. 2:23 PM Aug 15th
#Rage looks graphicaly amazing! 2:54 PM Aug 15th
#Rage first person element of rage looks very nice. Smooth and fluid like previous id games. 3:24 PM Aug 15th

Some random pictures I took:

AMD Overclocking Show:

Panoramic inside the VendorExhibit area:

Panoramic of the Exhibit Stage and the Ventrilo NASCAR Truck and Mustang Shelby GT 500 that was given away:

Nvidia had people come up on stage and do things to get free schwag. These two people had to eat crickets, minos, and worms for some free stuff:

Bike Guitar Hero, how the…

sp4rky — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:12:02 +0000

I have no idea how they did this but its pretty cool.

Quakecon 2008 video clips

sp4rky — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:24:12 +0000

And here are the video clips from Quakecon 2008. Nothing special, just some short clips Jennifer and Ir took here and there at Quakecon.

Phillips AMBX booth

Quakecon 2008 – Phillips AMBX from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

Intel Extreme Gaming Tour booth

Quakecon 2008 – Intel Extreme Gaming Tour booth from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

Crazy flight simulator in the ATI booth

Quakecon 2008 – ATI, Flight Sim booth from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

Short clip of the Enemy Territory Quake Wars finals setup and casting.

Quakecon 2008 – ETQW Finals Clip from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

Guitar Hero 3 Finals – Third place played Dragon Force – Through The Fire and Flames

Quakecon 2008 – Guitar Hero 3 Finals – Third Place Coop from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

Weirdo Jennifer eat uses a fork to cut her pancakes and only eats the top pancake.

Quakecon 2008 – Jennifer uses a knife with pancakes? from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

Quakecon 2008 pictures

sp4rky — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:15:16 +0000

Here is are the pictures from Quakecon 2008 that I took. I still need to upload some video clips and post them but here are the pictures in the mean time.

For the rest of the photos click here.

Back from Quakecon

sp4rky — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:50:14 +0000

We are back from Quakecon 2008 and had a blast as always. I’ll be posting pictures and video soon so check back if you want to see them.

The small updates that have been spaming the site have been my Twitter updates using my cellphone. Ill go through and clean those up in to a couple post to make it easier to check them out.

I can’t guarntee that I’ll get around to these things today but within the next couple of days they should be up.

Quakecon Day 1 Pictures

sp4rky — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:52:32 +0000

Check out the rest of the photos here.

Arrived at the Hotel, swank.

View from the hotel room.

This guy in the “What would you do for…” event had to get his head shaved for a chance to win a corvette.

Corvette that is going to be given away.

Coming up next, Quakecon 2008

sp4rky — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:11:08 +0000

I’ll be posting updates to the site like I did last year and small twitter updates too. I’ll also upload pictures to flickr while we are there so keep checking back to see what is going on and if you want, follow me on twitter. I hope to do some video streaming from the event but this may not be possible, it’s pending at the moment. If I can it will be streaming at www.JustinSanchez.com/live.

Me and Jennifer met some cool people last year from another gaming team that my team and I are planning to hang out with and do some gaming.

I can’t believe I got Jennifer to come again this year because I know sometimes she gets bored but there is plenty to do that isn’t gaming and we always have fun at those things. Maybe she is coming just because she knows this year they are are giving away a 2008 Corvette, which is her favorite car. I am told often by my friends that I am very lucky guy because Jennifer puts up with my gaming and just the fact that she comes with me to Quakecon. I’ve got to agree with them and I appreciate her coming.

Oh and If you are a blockles fan you better watch my twitter updates because I’m sure we are going to play some blockles.

Live show postponed

sp4rky — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:12:09 +0000

With Quakecon 2008 just 2 days away I’ve decided we might as well just wait until we get back to do the live show.

However I don’t think the show will happen to soon because in the coming weeks I will be moving in to an apartment. Hopefully soon we will have time to put together a show so keep checking back.

Quakecon 2008 – Hmm…

sp4rky — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:02:40 +0000

Quakecon.org posted the times for registration last week and registration will happen on April 30th, tomorrow, at 8pm central time for Quakecon 2008 (July 31 – August 3). If you think you might want to go you should be ready to register for the event tomorrow.

This year if I can make it I hope to stream live from the event at JustinSanchez.com/live and chat with whoever is on the live page. If all goes as planned we should have a pretty lively seen around us (my q3 team) with fans, friends and team AFZ (a bunch of cool guys and gals we met Quakecon 07) sitting with and hanging out with us. I’m sure there will be some partying and then attempts to slaughter each other in the game after to many drinks. I’ve written more about this on my teams website, so if you want to read more about this here is the article.