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Human Head Offices Destroyed, Company Bands Together
Yesterday, Gamasutra reported the sad news that the offices of Human Head studios were destroyed in a fire. Based out of Madison, Wisconsin, the indie developer recently signed up to do the next Mark Ecko game, riding high on their success with Prey from last year. Today, thankfully, Next Generation has the news that the company has survived more or less intact. "[Office Manager Carol] Smith said, 'I work with an incredible group of guys, and as soon as we got over the shock of oh my gosh, we had a fire--what if we lost data, what if we lost art? ...the next words out of everybody's mouths were, What can we do to help?' An update on Human Head's website confirmed that there were no injuries in the blaze that occurred at 2:30 a.m. on Friday and that the Prey developer 'suffered no significant data loss.'"
Fragging shall now be an outdoor activity ONLY!!!
Mr. Universe: "They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal."
Better luck next time, dear arsonist.
Can we safely assume it was an extreme-overclocking-to-meet-ridiculous-gameplay-r equirements related fire?
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Every time we have an article on Slashdot about some backups-gone-bad horror story, someone always asks "hey, how come we never hear about the times when things go right and the sysadmin saves the company?"
Well, here you go.
Somebody owes someone a beer.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Human head asplodes?
/terribly sorry
//really
///heh
FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE
I thought this was talking about a corporate monster gaining a mind-of-its-own, if you will, and no longer needing executive heads. Oh wait, that never happens.
"protected by a firewall" (of the physical, not logical variety) and "celebrating with a cookout" -- how better to celebrate your company's near brush with disaster? /well, *I* thought it was humorous. //glad nobody was hurt and very little was damaged
Peter
The very instant I saw they were behind the new Mark Ecko game, I couldn't help but wonder...
I live in Madison and I didn't heard anything about this.
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
[PET_PEEVE]
Are they based OUT OF (meaning NOT IN; somewhere else), or are they based IN (meaning IN; not out of; i.e., not somewhere else) ??
[/PET_PEEVE]
I don't think there is an official word yet, but I believe I heard the fire started in a storage area for another tenant in the building. It's sad that the place burned, it was a renovated roundhouse next to the railyards here.
I'm surprised noone was hurt in this blaze... 2:30am on a Friday? That's prime development time..
XenoPhage
Technological Musings
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me
Stupid exaggeration. The fire must've came out from the lower Apex storage floors though
... company robots vow to carry on anyway.
Employees suggest updating your fire insurance before buying any of their games, since the newly patented pyro-realism features are sure to turn the gaming world upside down!
Being an independent developer is difficult at the best of times. Best of luck in finding new digs and getting back up to speed.
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
"Good luck looking it up on the net though."
You just have to know how to phrase it.
Yeah, because, you know, *YOU* are the ultimate arbiter of what games deserve to exist.
I can't be the only one having visions of Office Space dancing through my head.
"And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire... "