Jithin Rao

Here on the last day of 2009, I sit at my desk, thinking about the events that happened through out the year. Very very eventful! Majority of them being downs, the ups have their significance as they just washed away all the downs that I had. And one of the couple of ups were, my first game’s release and its progression in sales, “100 All Time Favorites” with more than 20k+ copies SOLD (actually this part is very confidential).

Very happy with what so has happened with the title, a rewarding moment after tons of set-backs when we were in production. Very happy that your first game has a rating given from various sources as 6.5/10 and above, its makes me happy for the really good start from my team, my studio and of course an unforgettable milestone in my career. Plus, the title had made me known to more people in the industry, new contacts and friends in the industry and that seems to be promising.

The energy gained from “100 All Time Favorites” seems to get carried into another adventure, but it’s still not the moment yet to be happy about. Hopefully that’s something I would see for the future to be all about in 2010.

Seems awkward, but I am happy that I had my 2 games release on the same year. My first project, started 3 years back, as a Lead Programmer (at 7seas Tech, which I left after 1 year of development) KRAZE too got released this year end soon after “100 All Time Favorites” got released. Say now officially I am not with the team any more, but I am happy for the hard work and commitment the team put up for the project. That’s a good second step for 7Seas on the PC front.

2009 has been an year full of games again. And on the personal front, its the year that my sister (even if she introduces me as her cousin, which is the fact but I call her as my own sister) Jyoti got married to Sreeji (chakkike otte changaran – mallu quote means Made For Each Other).  Her new world, her new family, her new priorities and everything changed for good and forever.

My sibling younger sister, Janani, scored really better (I really mean really better) marks than me at her 12th grade and joined for BBA, that’s another immense happy moment for me. A moment of recognition for my sweety.

Ex-Roomie’s Marriage!!! HIT – Hitendra Barse got married! Hey family MAN! Wish a Happy and Blessed Life ahead for Hit and Kiran!

Apart from the wonderful things that happened, I wouldn’t never want another year with the repeated downs from this year. Same old story of betrayal at peak, not only from one person, a couple of people at regular intervals stamped on various roles of my life which has been branded on to my memories with no solution to dissolve them at any point of life. I should be thankfully for the my GREAT friends (Roma - Malju Spirit, found her this year, 2009 (mallu + gujju, come on you are not a mallu), Nirav ( A Gujju Guy! One Roomie Power) , Yoganath (Bro- Help always on the way) and Hitendra (Second Ex-Roomie power) I had through this period helping, consoling and reminding of the spirit I lost on these incidents.

Thankful to the power behind the good health of my parents (they have been under a lot of pressure, which is not at all in my hands but all I can do now is hear to them) and people around me, I wish everyone a Wonderful New Year yet to come!

PS: No plans till now, I am gotta run off with DYNAMIC ALLOCATION of Celebration of 2009 and start off 2010 rit away! This post is not intended for a people to read, its just to remind me what happened to me in 2009. After all I am too a human, WHO FORGETS!

BTW, a resolution, mmm…. still thinking of something. I need to think of a resolution which I can break!

CHEERS, see you in the next episode of my life, SEASON 2010!

The movie has been in a lot of hype for a long time now, knowing that James Cameron is one the best directors in the world whose story telling methodologies have been creating sensational flicks in various age groups of people. With Avatar, according to me, he still maintains the very same pace. Avatar is not a packaged with a base story line that’s complex or pitched for a more sequel based movies but very simple old wine in the new bottle. You know the kind of inspirational movies that shows that at times self confidence helps you win the biggest battle of your life. More than the story its the narration of this story with James Cameroon’s vision of an ET life is more than stunning than the story. He sets the standards for the industry to target for and that’s really, I mean really GOOD!

There has been a lot of movies where you had the featured ET life forms on earth and humans on their planet and all sorts of things, but this was one vision that makes me feel that I would be like to be a NAVI! Extremely detailed environment(MY FAV PART OF THE MOVIE – IT WAS WOW!) and really good creatures/animals/humanoid visions on that kind of an environment. The vision of “Biological Network”, oh boy something you will have to see and figure out is WOW, where do he get the inspirations from? Its like a p2p network we have with computers today! Throughout the movie, the humans, pictured in a negative money greedy (typical serial fashioned Indian mother-in-laws in south movies, even kill the first daughter-in-law to get a new daughter-in-law for her son with more dowry style!) being negative aspect for the movie shows 2 distinct vision of humans, scientists who says – MORE KNOWLEDGE and business men – MORE MONEY. So yeah we have more distinct people back on planet earth!

Inside the Making of the Movie

Coming back on the story telling, James Cameron just touched the expectation that I had for the movie, good story telling, very very convincing display of his version of the ET life forms, using the the latest CG techniques and technologies known and created for the movie AND the movie a is great EXPERIENCE! You will need to EXPERIENCE it, its a must watch if you are James Cameron/CG/Sci-fi/ET/Hollywood Movie Lover. There would be a lot other sites which can give you an insight of what is in store for the movie, but I stand with director for not breaking the experience that’s there in the movie for the viewers. So you guys should go and watch the movie, its 200% money value entertaining movie!

My First Trip to ‘PANDORA’ was AWESOME! I wanna go for the trip once again may be not in 3D this time, want to know the experience it in 2D too!

HATS OFF to the LEGENDARY VISIONARY – JAMES CAMERON!

CHEERS!

nVidia has disclosed that they have come to deal with Nintendo in getting the next gen Nintendo DS to have Tegra in it. As Tegra has claimed to be the next wave in handheld console gaming, as said by the nVidia CEO, seems to get the Big Fish in the league, but Nintendo is yet to disclose on it. Until Nintendo says so, I am not gonna, you know, expect this. It’s NINTENDO, they do anything, and they do it own their WILL! They had once upon a time refused to use the Compact Disc Technology from Sony, later adapted it for Wii.

So it’s not easy to convince Nintendo like that. Let’s see whether nVidia has been able to convince Nintendo or not. According to me, Nintendo should be doing it, we need to see a platform (handheld) to compete with sony so that the market improves.

Right now, DS is lagging only with the quality on visual experience, and Tegra can enhance it, a new feature addition may or may not enhance but the thinking of the possibilities of games like God Of War for a handheld like DS with the innovative hardware features like mic and touch plus a competitive graphics processor can really push the user experience to a different envelope, provided the game developers exploit it.

Well, I am not that old enough to give a suggestion to Nintendo, they know the market too well and they know to how to get people buy their hardware and their games as well, hope they will do something I would like to see them doing.

CHEERS