First I'd like to thank everyone for the happy birthday wishes yesterday on twitter and facebook and email. It was a great day. I actually turned in my 2 weeks notice at work as part of the birthday celebration. I'll miss all the folks I worked with out there, and hopefully will get to see them for reunion lunches and such, but that leads me to the title of this post.. the new chapter.
I have been invited, and accepted a position with Curse! I'm incredibly thrilled and humbled by the offer. The guys at Curse are a great group of folks, and I can't wait to be part of the team. They do some cutting edge stuff on the web, and I can't wait to contribute to their code, and learn from them as well.
I will still be working with the DWP on the weekends and evenings as time allows. We are actually now partnered with Curse to deliver our videos to the public, so that is more exciting news.
If you don't know who Curse is, then you should go and check out their offerings, because there is a good chance that you play a game that they make applications for. http://www.curse.com
Here's a fun activity. Take the green screen footage from this and make eric do funny stuff!
I hope everyone had a tremendous holiday season.. Christmas, Hanukkah or whatever you celebrate this time of year.. I hope it was tremendous. Also, we bring in a new year with new hopes and dreams and I hope this year is the best year of your life so far.
I'm going to be shooting more personal vlogs to try to get this page a bit more active and what not and let you know what's going on personally in my life. This first video is just outside of where I work, and was more of a test to see if I could do it on the fly off my phone, and I can, so here it is!
If you want to get involved, please let them no, or me and I'll forward you to them. Word.
Also, we are talking about taking TF2 to a seasonal show (and when I say we, I mean me.. I haven't really approached the other guys yet!), like you normally see tv shows do. The segments we get are fairly sporadic, some folks send them in every week, some are sent in once a month, and some are sent in once and never again! :) So we're trying to find a way to have the best show possible, and get all the goodies in each show. Maybe 2 shows? a news show and then a community segments show? Hmm... Still thinking about this.
Just in case we do, I wanted to share with you some special TF2 news! Here's the news release!
Team Fortress 2 Ships Holiday UpdateNew class packs, hats, items and maps
December 15, 2011 -- Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the second annual holiday-themed "Australian Christmas" update, featuring two retro-futuristic "Dr. Grordbort" class packs for the Engineer and Pyro, designed by Weta Workshop's Greg Broadmore.
In addition to the class packs, the update will also ship 14 new holiday-themed weapons, hats and cosmetic items by the TF community's item creators, using the Steam Workshop. "CP_Foundry," a new five-cap control point map designed by Valve's TF2 team, comes with 12 map-specific achievements.
As part of the holiday celebration, over 50 items in the Mann Co. in-game store will be on sale for up to 75% until January 2nd, 2012. Additionally, the in-game item drop rate will be doubled for the first week of the event.
Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play team-based first-person shooter that PC Gamer called "the most fun you can have online." With a growing community of players and item-creators, TF2 is more popular now than ever. For more information visit http://www.teamfortress.com/australianchristmas2011. For more information on Dr. Grordborts visithttp://www.drgrordborts.com.
Ahhh... the smell of wood burning in the air... ice cold nipples... and an urge to drink hot cocoa... no.. it's not Grandma's Birthday... It's DECEMBER! One of my favorite months of the year. I love the weather. I love the Cheer. I love making my kids happy by decorating and the smiles they have while ripping through the wrapping paper on the gifts that Santa has left behind.
We are working on a bunch of projects for Christmas and New Years at the DWP factory. Probably too many, and we're weeding through them for the best, so we can concentrate and make a few great things instead of 4 billion so so things. Keep an eye on twitter (@brentcopeland) and of course listen to the show (The Shaft) and watch our videos (DWP on Youtube) and of course there is our (Tumblr) site you can view.
But for tonight, we give you the first part in a new series. An Adventure Map created by Ron Smalec, Grinchmas. Enjoy.
Wes talks about dwarf fortress
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I'm going to be streaming out a bit each week on building my new world. I'm testing out Justin.tv, but here's the first episode:
Watch live video from Dead Workers Party on Justin.tv
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