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Have a Powerful 2008!

After living for so many years up North (read, the Northern hemisphere) I realized that people take for granted that Christmas is all about snow and cold. Nonsense! Xmas has always been about sunny days, Santa in shorts and fireworks. Anyway, in order to give you guys a glimpse of a Southern hemisphere gamer Xmas, we put together this little postcard (click to enlarge). Enjoy! May Santa bring you tons of Sea Monkeys and Nintendo Virtual Boys! And have a terrific, mega powerful 2008!

2nd Uruguayan GameDev competition

Last week took place the awards ceremony for the 2nd Uruguayan GameDev competition. There were two categories: Videogames (the winner got a trip to GDC) and Plan Ceibal (which is the local name of the One Laptop Per Child program). We had the pleasure to have Patrick Hudson, Executive Producer from Ensemble Studios, as a keynoter and member of the jury. Needless to say, 99% of Uruguayans are Age of Empires fans, so Patrick's presentation about AoE and the upcoming Halo Wars was truly enjoyed by everybody.
As co-organizer and member of the jury, I personally had a blast with this competition, we really had some great games submitted and I'm looking forward to next year's event. There are only very few studios here and many talented people are not fully aware that making games for a living is a real option down here, so with events like this we hope to encourage the industry and the creation of great games. Watch out, Japan, the Uruguayans are coming! :)