The Gnoll has left the building
I’m sitting here at home in the late afternoon and it is an odd feeling. I’m not at work. I feel like I ought to be programming. The cats keep visiting me as I sit here, and I wonder why are my cats in my cube at work? Then I realise that I’m not in my cube.
As of today, I no longer work at SOE. I have officially left the games industry. And it feels odd. It hasn’t sunk in yet. After 9 years at SOE in all its guises (Sony Imagesoft, 989 Studios, RedEye Entertainment, Verant and then Sony Online), and 20 years in the games industry… it is time for a new challenge. SOE has been kind to me and I have enjoyed my tenure by and large, apart from a couple of rough patches, but then name me a company that is perfect! I’ve had far fewer rough patches at SOE than at any other time in my career. There are some very talented people there, and Smed and Russ Shanks are a couple of the greatest guys you could ever meet.
Tomorrow I start at a fresh new and very small company in La Jolla. I am very excited at the interesting IP (Intellectual Property) that they are working on, and I have a chance to be in at the ground floor and help shape the company. I can’t say any more at this stage - to protect the product that we will be launching. I am looking forward to working with the talented engineering team, and the executive team are the smart, visionary, knowledgable and friendly people that everyone would love to work for.
So, right now I am in a limbo, thankfully short-lived. Time for this little gnoll to move on.
Ladies and Gentlemen… the gnoll has left the building.
