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BRAD will leave ASPYR to join FERAL

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Posted 18 August 2009 - 12:59 PM

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Posted 18 August 2009 - 01:10 PM

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Posted 18 August 2009 - 01:12 PM

Holy cr*p!
That's totally insane!
This guy just hasn't stopped changing jobs in the last few years. No doubt this means we can expect to see a whole bunch of ridiculously cool and exciting stuff from Feral in the next few years. Till Brad heads out to found his own dev/porting house or whatever hair-brained scheme he has in mind.
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Posted 18 August 2009 - 01:47 PM

Wow.
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Posted 18 August 2009 - 01:59 PM

Wow Brad, will you ever make up your mind?
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Posted 18 August 2009 - 02:35 PM

The big news here, of course, is who's going to maintain Alice? NOBODY!

At least he'll still be around and with a Mac group to port the sequel, I guess. :-)
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Posted 18 August 2009 - 07:55 PM

Wow. First Glenda and now Brad. This can't be good for Aspyr. Who else is going to have the dedication to maintain older titles like CoD, KOTR, and Jedi Academy? I wonder if Brad will stay long enough to see The Force Unleashed through to release? Here's hoping that Feral is bringing Brad on board to head up a Batman: Arkham Asylum Mac port.

Best of luck to Brad.
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Posted 18 August 2009 - 08:00 PM

I always knew Brad was a British spy. I mean, come one, Brad Oliver. :glare:
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Posted 18 August 2009 - 11:42 PM

Yippee, my favourite porting house gains another employee! :happy:
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Posted 19 August 2009 - 04:44 AM

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Posted 19 August 2009 - 06:36 AM

A rather unexpected career move. Feral is really concentrating the Mac game porting talent at the moment, hm?

I expect Brad to have adopted a Brit accent and the habit to have crumpets for tea by January next year.
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Posted 19 August 2009 - 07:47 AM

Wow!

I think this is good news since Feral really seems more invested in Mac gaming than Aspyr does now. Feral is good people too. ;)

However I wonder what this will mean for Mac NWN 2, a title that needs continued support. I haven't yet played it because of my graphics card but will purchase it when I get a new iMac when Apple releases them.

Congratulations Brad! :happy:

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Posted 19 August 2009 - 08:19 AM

View PostTacohead, on August 19th 2009, 01:47 PM, said:

However I wonder what this will mean for Mac NWN 2, a title that needs continued support. I haven't yet played it because of my graphics card but will purchase it when I get a new iMac when Apple releases them.


I don't think Brad wasn't working on the NWN2 build. I've just given up on Aspyr, the NWN2 build is far out of date by now and no expansion packs are going to be released :/

I just went out and bought the PC expansion packs and used the PC version I bought used here on the forum a while back, installed via Crossover and installed into a CrossOver Chromium Wrapper, had to apple a No-DVD patch but the game runs like a dream with all the goodies under MacOS with no need to restart :)
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Posted 19 August 2009 - 09:46 AM

View Postteflon, on August 18th 2009, 02:12 PM, said:

No doubt this means we can expect to see a whole bunch of ridiculously cool and exciting stuff from Feral in the next few years.


It's been happening for a while already - the last great porting house for Mac.
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Posted 19 August 2009 - 10:45 AM

View Postbookman, on August 19th 2009, 11:46 AM, said:

It's been happening for a while already - the last great porting house for Mac.


True, but they are expanding so things gotta be going good for them
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Posted 19 August 2009 - 02:11 PM

View PostMagnum, on August 18th 2009, 12:59 PM, said:

Wow Brad, will you ever make up your mind?


You people may think you're funny, but you're not. ;)

View PostTacohead, on August 19th 2009, 06:47 AM, said:

However I wonder what this will mean for Mac NWN 2, a title that needs continued support.


I started on the 1.22 patch a few months back, then when it was nearly ready for our QA guys, 1.23 came out on the PC. I synced that up and when *that* was nearly ready, it turns out a 1.23 "hotfix" patch was in the works to fix up those issues. So now we're waiting on the 1.23 hotfix on the PC side so as to try and stay current. Beyond that, who can say. I'd sure like to think we'll get a NWN2 patch out before I leave but if not, it'll land in one of our other Mac guys' laps.

View PostdevSin, on August 18th 2009, 01:35 PM, said:

The big news here, of course, is who's going to maintain Alice? NOBODY!


Alice is pretty much "done" at this point though. I mean, barring a switch by Apple to another CPU architecture or something... ;)
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Posted 19 August 2009 - 02:12 PM

@brad

is it correct that you will go to london und work as a producer by feral as edwin does ?
has your resignment any negative effects on the recently announced star wars port ?

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Posted 19 August 2009 - 03:25 PM

View Postdr.zeissler, on August 19th 2009, 01:12 PM, said:

is it correct that you will go to london und work as a producer by feral as edwin does ?
has your resignment any negative effects on the recently announced star wars port ?


I'll be a programmer working remote. I've still got a month left at Aspyr, which is partly intended to minimize the impact on the Mac Force Unleashed schedule. We have 2 other guys with excellent experience working on the Mac port, so it'll be in capable hands once I'm gone.
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Posted 19 August 2009 - 05:41 PM

How've you found London so far?
wet miserable and depresing? or fun, frolicking and splendiforous?
Also curious where you'll be living. North or South? Brixton? Kensington? Walford?
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Posted 19 August 2009 - 05:57 PM

Brad is the ball in an employment game of Pong. Let's see how many jobs he can bounce off of before he hits the wall! And yes, that one was me trying to be funny with just a bit of poignant truth thrown in to make it cerebral. You see with me, humor is more than just a Yo Mama joke. It's ball-kick too.
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