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I'd name mine Leviathan.

AHHHH! Love this series! I love the NES style, MM has it's own distinctive art style that will never get old. I'm glad they continued the tradition!

Nice!

There was a version of Doom that was used by the military.

From Wikipedia;
America's Army (also known as AA or Army Game Project) is a series of video games and other media developed by the United States Army and released as a global public relations initiative to help with recruitment. America's Army was conceived by Colonel Casey Wardynski and is managed by the U.S. Army's Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis at the United States Military Academy.[2] Wardynski envisioned "using computer game technology to provide the public a virtual Soldier experience that was engaging, informative and entertaining.

Money Slave took it farther then I would have but there's some truth to what he's saying. I can't remember the name of it but they made a movie where children are told they are playing a video game, and actually controlling fighter jets and fighting a war. It may seem crazy now, but in 50 years...

With that attitude you were probably better off. That sounded a lot harsher then I mean it to, what I mean by that is any industry (especially game development) is not an easy or a fast track to success. You will never be a millionaire, there's always exceptions but from an average salary perspective programmer's, artists, and sound engineer's are not paid exorbitant amounts of money. This is try of any art related field, you work for next to nothing and even if you never make it big, you're doing what you love and that's what's important.

Nobody is going to walk into any big game company with an idea and no experience and be taken seriously. Which again is true of almost every industry. A lot of new graduates I talk to expect to be paid ludicrous salary's simply because they have a degree. It's not their fault, growing up people train you to believe this so you'll educate yourself as much as possible - which is a good thing.

A degree helps, but I know more people who spent their time creating instead of going to school and are farther ahead then most. It's what you do with your knowledge (paid for or self learned) that counts.

That's my perspective, I'm a programmer, and the owner of company that makes iPhone and iPod touch games.

Momohime FTW!

Definitely MP1!

Why do you care what you look like? Your in a room with your friends, they shouldn't judge you and you shouldn't judge them. If it's fun, play it, just because your a guy doesn't mean you can't dance in front of other people.

St. Pete's in Florida to visit my grandparents (grandmother passed away shortly after).

Those have to be the cutest cosplay's I've ever seen in my life. Zelda's costume is superb (and she's stunningly beautiful I might add), and the one of them smooching made me all warm and fuzzy inside :)