Ziray Studio Labs

I’m sure many of you are wondering what I’ve been working on at my real job. I’ve told a few people with little to no understanding on their part due to the fact that the games are so different from what the names imply. Well, I did some searching online and found images of the games.

Monopoly Express

Sorry Express

Operation Rescue Kit

I am 95% done coding Monopoly and Sorry. I am now waiting on the designers to get me the rest of the assets (such as the animations and graphics) so I can complete and polish the product before we give it off to be shown to the world.

These games have been announced a while ago so I’m ok in talking about them. We are always getting in new products that are pre-release. The companies that send them to us don’t want us showing them off before they have announced them, so sometimes I can’t really talk about it. It’s kind of like working for Apple again where we would sometimes get marketing information a few days prior to Apple announcing promotions and we were suppose to keep it to ourselves until they officially announced it.

Our office looks like a day care center sometimes with all these toys on people’s desk. It’s a lot of fun to see what the next toy we get in will be. It’s kind of like that movie “Big” where Tom Hanks’ character gets a job as a toy tester.

So by now, I figured things would be getting back to normal. My condo closing was pushed back yet again to around the 17th. If you didn’t already know, I started with this purchase back in April. It is now July and I still don’t have a permanent place. I moved out of my Berryfield apartment on the 30th, did my laundry there for the last time and totally moved out. It was a good feeling. Even though I had lived there for four years, it was nice to move on. We shall see what the next four years brings.

The only good thing about living in this temporary condo, is that I am here rent and utility free. That means all my paychecks go into my pocket (and then out again to pay off the loans), but it will help me save up some money before I have these high mortgage payments to pay off.

As soon as I can get a stable internet connection and get settled in, I’m going to start posting a daily, or semi daily photo to this blog so that people can see some of my photography without being overwhelmed by my large galleries. So look forward to that.