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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."
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.
The very instant I saw they were behind the new Mark Ecko game, I couldn't help but wonder...
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
Madison's local news websites aren't the best. It was the historic Train Roundhouse building:
http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/7118931.html
http://wkow.madison.com/News/index.php?ID=10980
Human Head simply rents space in that building, they moved there a little over a year ago.
They are based "OUT OF" Madison because they ship their frigging product OUT OF Madison to the rest of the world that is not IN Madison, got it Grammar Nitwit? It's a term that comes from the physical manufacturing and sales economy the U.S. used to have, and we have not yet seen fit to thow it upon the pyre of "not acceptable idioms".
Not sure why that set me off so badly, but it did.
... company robots vow to carry on anyway.
Jack Thompson was heard saying: finally, I've put an end to Counter Strike!
So what you're saying is that I'm not actually "straight out of Compton" ?
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... "