In reviewing our incoming links this morning, we came across one titled “And Now For A Taste Of Things To Come”. We of course clicked it out of curiosity, and were surprised at what we found.

The incoming link pointed to our review of Fury, developed by Auron, and was part of what appeared to be a resignation announcement by one of their developers.

In this announcement, “Doolwind” states the following…

“We had a great new game coming up, great people and some awesome tech made by the engine programmer. It’s a shame that I’ll no longer be working with the team, but unfortunately there are some things I just can’t change.”

The words “just can’t change” were linked to our review, which scored the game a 4.0 out of 10. Good or bad, a review is simply one individual’s opinion of a game, and while some may agree with it, others will often criticize it.

Whether the “things I can’t change” comment was referring to the negative press the game was receiving overall, or the actual issues listed in our review is unclear. Below is the post in its entirety.

And Now For A Taste Of Things To Come

I finally resigned from Auran a couple of weeks ago. I’ve wanted to try running my own software development company for a while now and I’ve been asked to write a book based on my programming personality test. I thought I was going to be contracting at Auran; however it seems they’ve run out of money, or projects or something and I’ll now be contracting 3 days per week at the company I used to work with, MVH. While I’m glad to be leaving Auran, I’m going to miss the team I was working with. We had a great new game coming up, great people and some awesome tech made by the engine programmer. It’s a shame that I’ll no longer be working with the team, but unfortunately there are some things I just can’t change.

As fate would have it, my 4th anniversary for being in the games industry comes up tomorrow. While I’ll still be working on games tech as a contractor, I’m officially no longer a full-time game programmer. I’ve now moved into the realm of entrepreneur and business owner. I’ve also just moved into my new home and am more over moving than I’ve ever been. I’ve set up a small home office with a few computers, whiteboard etc ready for the business to begin. I’ll keep you posted with how things go, however I’ll still keep this blog primarily game related.

Tags: Auron, Fury, resign

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2 Comments » pagefault on November 5, 2007 11:21 pm Actually, he was working on Battlestar Galactica as stated in some of his earlier blogs. From my understanding it meant the team that was Battlestar Galactica was over and he was going to be moved to Fury… :) Pagey sandrar on September 10, 2009 6:47 am Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.