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RCT3: Soaked is number 4 in the UK PC charts (beaten by leadfoetus though, damn), and 21 in all formats chart! Whoo! Pretty good news. We're selling well in the US too, but no charts yet. Speaking of RCT...

On Thursday I've got to talk to a bunch of students that are coming into the office for a look at 'how we work'. I've got to talk them through the artwork process and generally explain how we do graphics for the game, and show off some of the models and concept artwork. Scary stuff indeed... it doesn't seem that long ago that I was in exactly the same position, and hassling people like snarx for advice on getting into games. :) Should be interesting though.

Recently I've been buying random games on a whim rather a lot. That's not to say I've been spending a lot of money, as all the games I've bought have been around £10 or less, but even still. Ebay's buy it now makes impulse purchasing way too quick! Most of what I've bought has been out of sheet curiousity though, and the opinion that if there's something that interests me (artistically, usually) about a title then there's little point in me passing it up. Evne if I only play for a couple of hours then it's still worthwhile for me as reference material.

This week I'm really exhausted. I'm doing solely illustration work during the day, which is great - I love doing it, but I'm also doing other illustration work during the evenings, so I'm feeling a bit stretched. Apologies to soundslikebuuu for her having to suffer a sleepy and drained dock in the evenings right now! Still, things are pretty good and although I'm busy, I'm pretty happy with what I'm getting to work on right now. Right, back to the drawing!

Well, RCT3: Soaked seems to be ready to ship - it comes out next week in the UK and USA. It's funny though, because we've been so busy recently working on the NEXT add-on pack that the release of this completely snuck up on me. It'll be interesting to see how it goes down though. Fun fun fun!

There's a good trailer for the game available to download HERE (65mb).

So, now at work I'm working solely on the next RCT expansion, which is going pretty well and I'm enjoying it. I'm still doing characters and illustrations and stuff, so it's pretty good to work on. I'm still not really a fan of this sort of game, but hey. :D



Speaking of games, I've got a weekend of gaming lined up, with lots of Gamikopians coming over for multi-player gaming madness. I just got Kuri Kuririn Squash and Micro Maniacs, so I've got new games to add to the classic Death Tank, Bomberman, and the newly acquired Taiko No Tatsujin.

Right, I'm going home before I suffer an injury from the foam dart gun battle that's raging in the office right now. Admittedly I instigated it with the purchase of two more guns, but hey! ^-^