{"id":39,"date":"2005-08-22T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T08:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/?p=39"},"modified":"2005-08-22T08:31:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-22T08:31:06","slug":"festival-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/festival-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, its been a bit since the last post &#8211; I&#8217;ve been taking a few days off to enjoy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eif.co.uk\/\">Edinburgh Festival<\/a> (or more accurately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edfringe.com\/\">the Fringe<\/a>). I love this time of year &#8211; all the comedians and theatre and music. The city becomes a bustling mess of chaos; the kind of place where you walk down the street past a man with an enormous foam painted head and hardly bat an eyelid. Of course, the bustle has its drawbacks, especially when I&#8217;m taking the other half out for a nice meal and trying to get around the city, only to be thwarted by masses of tourists who insist on <strong>stopping in the middle of the pavement and looking blankly at the buildings around them<\/strong>. After that happens a few times, I think I could be forgiven for laying into the people around me with an umbrella and shouting <strong>&#8220;Get out of my way, I&#8217;M LOCAL!&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><cough><\/cough><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, some work has been done around that, including more server machine twiddling, web development work for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flamemultimedia.com\/\">Flame Multimedia<\/a>, and a little bit more tools coding. On this week: more of the same, as well as some more promotional stuff to find contracts.<\/p>\n<p>On a brighter note, Sony have finally set a release date for <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.playstation.com\/games\/gamesinfo04_game.jhtml?localeTitleId=1061843&#038;linktype=SSL\">Brave<\/a> (the game which occupied our lives for a good portion of the past few years, for anyone who doesn&#8217;t know). I was worried for a while that SCEE were just not going to release it, but it looks like they were just keeping it in wait for some reason. Hopefully we&#8217;ll see some higher-profile publicity for it, I&#8217;d hate to see it slip past the public. We learned quite a few good lessons from the technology behind Brave, and there are quite a few ideas which we&#8217;ll be reusing in future development. I&#8217;ll be trying to p<br \/>\nick up a copy in September, although being a bit stingy, I&#8217;ll probably wait till they&#8217;ve discounted it a bit first. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, its been a bit since the last post &#8211; I&#8217;ve been taking a few days off to enjoy the Edinburgh Festival (or more accurately the Fringe). I love this time of year &#8211; all the comedians and theatre and music. The city becomes a bustling mess of chaos; the kind of place where you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg1JR-D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}