Hello from Jim Landes!

[Jim_Landes]

Thanks Jim,

Are you still playing Pbm games yourself?

Regards,

Walter.

(sorry about any english errors, I speak several languages but English grammar is harsh for me...)

Hello Walter,

I seem to have missed your question above, my appologies.

No, I have not played a PBM game since around 1993.

I returned to college and had to focus my time on studies, and then jumped into the corporate world with 90 hour weeks, a family and just no time to devote.

Since then I spend my free time making games.

Kindest regards,

Jim

Jim,

It is good to see you still involved in games. I enjoyed playing Warband with your (and all of your team's) mods. It is cool that you have managed to stay in the game industry -- I got drawn into the corporate world and stayed there once I had a family. Finding time for even playing games has gotten tough.

I remember playing Epic and Legends back in the day. It is amazing how much fun some of those simple games such as Epic were just because you were in a game with so many other people.

Terry (from Rolling Thunder Games)

Hello Terry,

Great to hear from you and my apologies for my tardy reply. Yes, I went back to the game industry in 2009 by taking a position heading up an interactive media program at a community college in Michigan.

I spend my days teaching computer science and game design and theory to young minds to help them shape the future of this industry.

In my spare time I have established a new concern, Gwythdarian LLC, a multi-media consulting firm and we are heavily involved in creating a new web based MMO using procedural generation techniques I have developed over the years. The end result will be quite astounding and we hope to have an alpha by this summer.

I did the corporate grind for many years, and while the money was great, I wanted to live a life that provided more value. That is what I say to people who ask me "Why did you move to Michigan?". I decided to live a life of value rather than living a life just for a paycheck. I found that the corporate world was not personally satisfying and that I was dying a bit every day.

Kindest regards,

Jim