And finally, here’s the public announcement of my marriage engagement with Ms Roma Reghu.
I did the Digital Invitation Card myself.
Getting tensed a bit, hope everything just goes good. Everyone’s wishes and blessings appreciated.
Have a lot of shopping to do.
CHEERS
Well well, its quite sometime that the event took place, but I have been super busy with my next project and the shifting to rented flat (a 1 BHK) that I couldn’t put up the feelings behind the FICCI function. FICCI BAF Awards is a division on the FICCI (Indian Chamber of Commerce) dedicated for the appreciation of achievements by the VFX, Animation and Gaming Industry around 32 countries. For the time being, as I have seen, most of it was Indian, but there were a couple of entries from outside India too.
It was me and my core team including Jitesh, Luell and Ankit who went for the event at Hotel Renaissance Powai, Mumbai. We started from pune at around soon after noon. The function was scheduled to start by 6:30 pm. We didn’t want to miss or late for the function so we made sure we have necessary time to reach.
At the function we did see a couple of bollywood stars who happened to come for the FICCI FRAMES function. After a lot of roaming around in the premises for, sight seeing 
, actually we were looking at the exhibitors and found that Intel and nVidia were exhibiting the 3D PCs. It was a different experience. But I still prefer it the 2D way for now.
It was a good opportunity to see a couple of familiar faces as well as new contacts on that occasion when Ubisoft Pune’s First in-house project was appreciated with a “Special Jury Award” in the Console Games category. Standing on the stage after receiving the award, yet again I hear it, the anchor spelt Ubisoft as U-B-I Soft! I was like errr, its Ubisoft! But again doesn’t affect much, the anchor’s words of appreciation did the soothing soon after it. BTW, I did tell the jury and the audience that we, as in UBISOFT PUNE, will be back next year too. Soon after the function it was a 3-4 hours drive back home with the heavy trophy of appreciation and a satisfaction of the hard work done by the team for “100 All Time Favorites”.
HAIL TEAM 100 ALL TIME FAVORITES! Another feather to the cap!
After quite sometime, rather very tough month of Jan and Feb, am back on the blogging again! Well past 2 months I have been behind my next project at Ubisoft. Kind of a tough change and make over but the team’s response has been really good. I could prove only one point “Smart Answers thru Action speaks more than a Word of Confidence for a Probability Question”, well its a practical approach. There was a question at one point of whether it is possible to achieve, logically if the directions are clear it is achievable and me and my team just proved it. Still we have a long way to go, will come back to you on this later.
Jan being engaged on the next project it was in Feb I had a couple of external commitments on behalf of Ubisoft :
Both the visits were truly distinct from each other and an experience of knowing what “Indian Gaming Enthusiasts” are thinking about Ubisoft Pune. Well, I thought its more better to put down the IGDS 2010 reactions first and then in an other post about ID Animations.
I must say that Indian Game Developers Summit was a very well organised attempt from Salt March. The Summit didn’t have any kinds of hiccups as far as I know, well the organizers just proved they are good and really professional. Rather on the organizers, I was a bit disappointed on the games that were on display, even though there were a couple of games developed in India, none of them were on the stalls that were purely developed in India. I couldn’t see much of the game developers displaying their games except for the technology providers like Adobe and nVidia. That was kind of sad. Even though Ubisoft had a stall it was only to know how the event goes so that we have an idea for the next.
It was very strange to see people asking you that Gameloft pune was taken over by Ubisoft, so what mobile game are you working on? It took my patience to the limit to make people understand that Gameloft is long gone and now we are exploring platforms other than mobile. And the result is “100 All Time Favorites” for the Nintendo DS. May be the news would penetrate to the crowd in India only when the device/platform is familiar for the people. Still, spreading this awareness about Ubisoft Pune was really a pain.
May be this is last time I would be attending a summit with a process to be shared, but I am sure next time I will try to give the people visiting our stall a hands on experience of not only Ubisoft Games but Ubisoft Pune’s games too.
The summit has given a lot of new friends, new contacts, new experiences, etc etc. Thanks to Salt March!
With a smile at the heart for the appreciations for my session at IGDS 2010, a summit review site :
And a learnings from the more than Critical but a misunderstanding of my attitude or words for a process that I was explaining at :
I am signing off for the day!
CHEERS
