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January 10, 2008
Heatwave Interactive announces its Board of Advisors
Hi folks and Happy New Year! 2008 has already been super hectic for me, mostly for the better. Heatwave is almost a year old now and we're finally going to be talking about some of the things we're up to! Most of the work we did in 2007 was "top secret" so I've not been able to talk about it at all.
The Heatwave website has some big news on it about our Board of Advisors. Many of you might know that Jason Bell and I worked together on UO, oh so many years ago, and he's always been an extremely intelligent, creative and savvy mentor of mine. He's got a lot of high level publishing and online experience and has an excellent critical eye for the creative. I'm really pleased to be working with him formally again. With just three initial members, the Board is amazingly experienced. Hell, we've got someone who worked in an executive role on "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Star Wars: Empire Stikes Back," not to mention folks who have worked in strategic roles at Disney, Atari and Turbine. Read more about them here.
I previously mentioned that we are going to be taking submissions for players to join our Player Advisory Council back in August. That plan was postponed because of several events last year, including an attempt to buy the company! Things were so fluid for Heatwave, that right after I made the comment, it no longer made sense to start recruiting. Fortunately, things have settled down and the original vision for the company is still in tact. So Tim Keating (MrTact) is putting together a sign-up survey on our site this week. I believe we'll have it deployed by next Wednesday or so (the 16th).
As for the rest, well, I'll just keep pounding away on until the all the hard work we've all put in pays off. If you're going to GDC this year, drop me a note and let's see if we can't meet up.
Posted by SunSword at January 10, 2008 05:43 AM