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From: fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu (Ed Federmeyer)
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Subject: Re: SCEA
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:58:03 GMT
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:54:23 +0100, Robert Swan <rs108@mdx.ac.uk>
wrote:

>> SCEE has GDUK. And that's a big incentive... I'd love to enter GDUK. Well,
>> I'd also love to even have access the SCEE site, but that's a whole nother
>> gripe that I'm not about to get into again. (Yall are probably tired of
>> hearing me gripe about that anyway, sorry)
>
>Gduk is an incentive, but then again me and others have been doing stuff
>anyway, and even when we're not we still talk (a load of rubbish).
>Seriously guys, whoever should sort out his access to SCEE should sort
>out his access to SCEE, it has been a while. 

I can't understate the importance of this kind of creative outlet
enough!  I have a choice of programming for the Yaroze and having a
few people see my stuff, or the PC, where I can send .ZIP files to all
my friends and coworkers, and put it on my (non-Yaroze) web site for
thousands of people to try.  Which one do you think provides a bigger
incentive?

(Having said that, the incentive of being the only person I know
personally that can program the PlayStation is also very cool! :-)
But even that wears thin after awhile.

I just brought my Yaroze to work the other day to show off my stuff,
and it was awsome to see people actually playing and enjoing my games.
But it was a really big pain in the ^&%@# to setup (find the time, not
be intrusive on the "real" work, etc.)  Luckily where I work is very
cool about this kind of thing, but I imagine alot of place won't stand
for "goofing off" like that.

Anyway, after many months of non-Yaroze projects, (and enjoying the
Summer by the way!) what kicked me into gear was a chance to get my
stuff on the ECTS'98 demo disc.  Even if it doesn't get on there, just
having a chance to get my stuff out there was well worth it.

I really wish SCEA members had a "Fame Game" (or we could enter the
SCEE Fame Game") to shoot for.  Man, if only I had 12 chances a year
to get on a real PSX disc!!!!   Granted, a "Fame Game" like
opportinity was never promised to us, and I can see not creating a
whole seperate SCEA "fame game" for various reasons, but I don't see a
good reason for SCEA and SCEI members to be excluded from the SCEE
"Fame Game".

Ed Federmeyer