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BDLA PR Tour Wrap-up
Last week I flew back to the US in order to undertake a Bad Day LA preview press tour. I’d had intentions to write a daily update of the tour but just couldn’t find the time or energy. Anyway… better late than never. Behind the scenes the tour actually began several weeks before my flight…
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BDLA Stirs Controversy
Writer Paul Rice recently wrote an article for the Spare Change News discussing the response that Bad Day LA is garnering from some homeless advocates and coalitions. Seems there is some confusion over stereotypes vs. reality, satirical social commentary vs. uninformed disparagement. Remarks from both sides in the article below… Video Game Divides Activists By…
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IGN: Bad Day L.A. Preview
I had hoped to send regular updates from the road while on the Bad Day LA PR tour… as it turns out, an unhappy combination of hectic schedule, serious jet lag, and sleepless nights led to no such updating. If I can get my brain to function while on the 12-hour flight back to the…
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Bad Day LA PR Tour
Leaving Hong Kong this morning for the US. Will be taking Bad Day LA to a variety of game magazines for preview coverage. Over the past two weeks the development team working on the project has been busting ass to get the demo levels ready. The game I’m leaving with today looks great, plays well,…
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BDLA Trailer Goes Wide
A quick note to everyone who helped to raise awareness about the Bad Day LA trailer, watched it, and registered it on their wishlists: Thank You! In less than a week you helped to raise the GameStats.com popularity of the game from 0 to 29.4! For an independently developed game that has had zero marketing…
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They Just Left Us Here to Die…
Reading about the hurricane disaster, which continues to unfold in Louisiana since Katrina passed through the region, I am repeatedly struck by a “truth is stranger than fiction” feeling. For instance: Employees at A.J.’s Produce Co. on Chartres Street in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans, spray-painted bright-red stern warnings for would-be thieves right on…
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CCT Game Calendar 2006
Wanted to take a moment to bring some attention to a very cool calendar project built around video game art. From the project’s website: CCT Game Calendar 2006 Borne as my private initiative, inspired by the Pirelli Calendar, project aims to create something that will be able to affect non-gamers consciousness of video game industry,…
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IGN: Bad Day L.A. Trailer and Wallpaper
Woot! The Bad Day LA Trailer is up on IGN! IGN: Bad Day L.A. Trailer and Wallpaper Bad Day L.A. Trailer and Wallpaper Not just your usual traffic jams and riots. by Tom McNamara [0] September 1, 2005 – In the movies Los Angeles has long been a town ravaged by one kind of destruction…
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Bad Day New Orleans – An Act of God
I came across this brilliant article while reading about the destruction caused by hurricane Katrina… “Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city,” stated Repent America director Michael Marcavage. “From ‘Girls Gone Wild’ to ‘Southern Decadence,’ New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open…
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Bad Day LA Posters
Some Bad Day LA promo posters sure to upset Hillary Clinton. You can grab the full size versions here.