valtrain.com » Playstation 3 http://www.valtrain.com Trapped in blog factory, send help! Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:27:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Faith in Sony restored http://www.valtrain.com/2007/03/07/faith-in-sony-restored/ http://www.valtrain.com/2007/03/07/faith-in-sony-restored/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:39:18 +0000 valtrain http://www.valtrain.com/?p=22 I’m up in San Francisco for GDC 2007 right now and so far things have been pretty sweet. We had an internal-only PS3 developer conference earlier in the week, and today I got to sit in on the Phil Harrison keynote.

I have to admit, as of late I’d been feeling a little down on some of our stuff. Work had started feeling like just a job, and I was afraid I was losing some motivation. I needed to get excited about Playstation3 again, and GDC has been really good for that.

Little Big Planet looks like a lot of fun based on the demo that Phil showed at the keynote. There’s a lot of potential for user-created content in that game, and I’m looking forward to seeing some of the levels that people build.

The “Home” demo also looks very cool. It’s got some elements of Second Life, and it makes it easier to find and meet people outside of regular PS3 games. One of my pet peeves with PSN so far was that there wasn’t a centralized place to see all your accomplishments from different PS3 games, and the Hall of Fame fills that nicely. I spent a fair amount of time talking with the Home guys last night, and I think good things are coming from them.

It’s nice to see things finally coming together. We’ve got some cool stuff happening on this platform, and seeing more of what’s in progress definitely restored my motivation to keep working on our technology.

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My alter-ego?

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