The new gospel

Hello all and here's a small project update: coding, coding, coding..

Didn't quite reach our goal for a playable beta for the new years but we're almost there. And there's a bit of news too, we're moving our operation to Oulu at the end of the month to continue working on Hoodownr. After 6 months in Tornio, we fully discovered the boredomness of having to drive 130km to a meeting every time and decided that Moses has to move towards the mountain when the opposite is not happening.

Speaking of religious terminology here's one thing I spotted on play Finland the other day. Apparently Unity is touring Finland trying to lure more people in to use their platform. I talked to a few Unity people a few months ago, the guys are really great and have a great product of course and I cannot really think of any reason to not to go Unity if you're publishing for multiple platforms.

The choice of words on the Unity tour promotion bothered me a bit tho. It looks like us lucky lucky Finns are in for a big experience as the 'guru Andy Touch, EMEA Product Evangelist at Unity Technologies' is flying all the way from X to preach the gospel of easy multi-platform game publishing. He's going to tell us all about the mindblowing, even Revolutionary new ways to change our lives as game developers. Bliss!

I really don't know why they would use religious terminology to assess the expertise of this mister Touch. If you really think about it, it's not that far from the business card of Mr Guangbiao Chen who basically states that he is the god-king of the universe. Take a look at the article for kicks. I actually love his approach with blatant self promotion, at least he's being honest about how he feels about himself.

Us westerners of course are much more civilized (read: sneaky) and do the same thing in a much more roundabout way. But why borrow American TV-evangelist jargon to make the same point? Maybe it's just me but the connotation feels very awkward: 'DIAL 777-GOD now to make a contribution'. Who buys that shit? Sofware engineers? Maybe there is a little buddha inside all of us!

So we're expecting a guru AND an evangelist all rolled into one coming over. I see an image of a mysterious man from faraway lands who comes (possibly riding a camel?) with his begging bowl and helps his converts to make their own begging bowls. 'Why give a man a fish when you could sell him some shit to help him to sell some shit' is the new gospel for the modern age. And happy we are of all the modern things.

I myself would better enjoy Mr Chen's gospel. At least he starts his press conferences with a song and I believe there's something honest about a man singing.

If you're reading this Mr Chen, please come over, let's get blind drunk in Oulu and while we're at it, try and communicate our great achievements to the public. Hell, I'll even set you up with a proper gig somewhere (please google 'Ykän Pub', a very promising and accepting venue), let's blow some wannabe guru evangelists out of the water. 

End of terminology rant. Enjoy 2014, boys and girls!

Sami

Hastur