{"id":2569,"date":"2013-10-01T17:58:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2013-10-01T17:58:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:58:58","slug":"back-to-work-unless-you-work-for-the-us-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/10\/01\/back-to-work-unless-you-work-for-the-us-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to work! (Unless you work for the US government)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Eurogamer is OVER, and the longest sustained 4 days of my gaming existence spent standing up is now over. Hurrah! It was fun for the first half day, then a bit tiring, then a bit exhausting then OH MY GOD WHEN DOES IT END. Not helped by the &#8216;DAGGA-DAGGA-DAGGA&#8217; of incredibly rubbish arcade music blasting at 900 decibels nearby. Plus \u00a37.50 for a pizza smaller than a Democracy 3 promotional badge. Bah humbug.<\/p>\n<p>I never know what to think about the economics of trade shows. I don&#8217;t like the whole idea of them in principle, but i understand the purpose they serve (for those lucky enough to live nearby) and I can see how it makes the job of games journalists much easier, although frankly, I still think the best games will emerge if everyone could just send simple polished betas of their games to the press, without insisting on demonstrating them in person, with a lot of hand waving, excuses, blagging, and offers of free champagne to any journalists as they try to form an impartial view of the finished product. But ho hum&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Eurogamer is now behind me, and I can look forward to not one, but TWO (yes&#8230;count them..TWO!) games releases in the next few months -&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/democracy3\/index.php?src=cliffski.com\">Democracy 3<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redshirtgame.com\/index.php?src=cliffski.com\">Redshirt<\/a>. Reaction to both at the show was great. We will be showing Redshirt at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmcomiccon.com\/london\/\">ComicCon in London<\/a> soon, and if you are staggeringly wealthy and want to see me talk about games marketing (and who wouldn&#8217;t?) I&#8217;ll be talking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamesintelligence.com\/game-marketing-europe\/conference-agenda.php\">this event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also managed to squeeze in a new <a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/forums\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=36&amp;t=8312\">patch for democracy 3<\/a> today, that fixes and improves and tweaks all kinds of things, so that&#8217;s rather good.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few hours, something fairly rare has been happening, in that the US government has done it&#8217;s best to re-create season six of The West Wing by actually shutting down, although I don&#8217;t think there was as much dramatic music and Josh Lyman shouting in this case. Every cloud has a silver lining though, it means I can now run ads like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/democracy3\/index.php?src=cliffski.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2570\" alt=\"leaderboard_shutdown\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/leaderboard_shutdown.jpg\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/leaderboard_shutdown.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/leaderboard_shutdown-300x37.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/leaderboard_shutdown-317x39.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Eurogamer is OVER, and the longest sustained 4 days of my gaming existence spent standing up is now over. Hurrah! It was fun for the first half day, then a bit tiring, then a bit exhausting then OH MY GOD WHEN DOES IT END. Not helped by the &#8216;DAGGA-DAGGA-DAGGA&#8217; of incredibly rubbish arcade music<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Back to work! (Unless you work for the US government)<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/10\/01\/back-to-work-unless-you-work-for-the-us-government\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-democracy3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}