Some Wii Action

I played my new Boom Blox game on the weekend. It was pretty fun. It’s a pretty simple game – using the Wii remote to aim at stacks of blocks to throw a ball and remove the special gem blocks in as few throws as possible; it takes a bit of lateral thinking. It’s a fairly kiddy game but I love my puzzle games. I can see how it would become a competitive game shared between a few people; Azreal would love trying to out-do me (or anyone else).

I also played Wii Tennis for an hour and surprised myself at how poorly I did. I actually got worse. I even went to the training drills to practise my aim but it hardly helped. I did win a few games but unfortunately I came out with a lower score than what I started with. I scared myself off playing because I don’t want to decrease my score too much! I think I’m just too impatient.

One of the Frag Dolls, Jinx, is leaving the group to work for Xbox in Sydney. How awesome. I’ve played with the thought of working for a games company – either developer or distributor. In Australia I’d either have to move to Sydney to work for a distributor to work in the marketing department (which would be awesome and probably something I’d be able to do without too much of a change) – but moving to Sydney isn’t something I would want to do. But here in Brisbane we have a fair few developers so I’ve considered working as a project manager however that would be harder for me to get into as I currently have no IT project management experience (currently working on that career move on the web side of that at the moment). I’ve always come to the conclusion that I didn’t want to work in the games industry because I wouldn’t want to tarnish my love of gaming with working in the industry. That’s probably true for the technical side of things. But the thought of working for Xbox marketing is awfully tantalising. Although I’d probably get stuck marketing something like Barbie’s catwalk fashion show or something like that.