Year End Update – So What’s Been Going On?

It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything here. I’ve had several updates on Facebook (not public) or to a lesser extent, Google+ (slightly more public but not fully), but I should probably provide some updates as we near the end of 2014.

This past year got off to a slow start professionally following the transition away from my Kontested startup but toward the middle of the year, picked up nicely. The offers I was expecting in my prior post sadly, failed to materialize for different reasons. One was due to financial issues within the company (where I still have many friends and have great respect for). The other was due to geopolitical machinations in April that caused the company to reconsider taking a bigger position in the US at this time (hint: it was a very large Russian company).

After those two things went away, I decided to stop “looking for a job” but instead work on expanding my consulting business. And in so doing, I’ve continued doing work with Q-Loc, but added on-going positions/projects with Digital Development Management, Six Foot/Grey Box and Digital Domain.

Each of these is exciting in their own ways and they cover very different areas (F2P online gaming/AAA PC gaming, AAA console gaming, port work, localization, QA, VR, mobile in the West and China, etc.). As it’s turned out, I’ve had to turn down more potential work simply because there’s not enough hours in the day and the need to balance my time between these four clients.

Moving into 2015, all of my clients from 2014 will stay my clients for the foreseeable future, though the mix of time spent with them may change a bit.

On top of these projects, I’m still participating on a few board of directors and boards of advisory functions that fill in what little time I have remaining. One of the more notable new ones is for IEP.

In any event, I wish you all a happy new year. I’ll see some of you at CES, Dice or GDC in the first quarter.