Category: Bad Day LA

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…