PixlBit

I see you found your way here also from Giantbomb and 1up.com :-) more the better~!

Ah Matt Townz, great to see you made it over brother! I remember you from back in the days of 1ups glory. Good to see some of the old guard make their way here!

Seams this is the place to be for 1up folks! though I have no idea how to follow people so if I don't follow right away I am sorry >.> I am still learning too!

I guess I look at this in terms of the larger producers. My background is business as is my masters degree :p so I spend a lot of time watching the industry because this industry means so much to me.

I don't think we are in the golden age right now, we were, and we can usher in a new one! It will take time and a restructuring of the gaming business industry for sure! However I think the potential is still there...it will take time.

I guess I look at the innovation through the 90's! We saw insane things come out of literally a whole field of developers and independant publishers. Games were made to challenge the mind, and stun the heart with some of the greatest stories ever told! They took us on adventures we'd never been on and had us talking about various easter eggs we'd found that made reference to the ultimate geek culture that surrounded us. 

I guess today, the focus is more on numbers and less on creativity, we see a dive into the lowest common denominator, and that just shouldn't be! I believe creativity is within everyone, and we just need to reach out to spark that curiosity in society again.

*Mini-me mimic*

I need a home, and I think GiantBomb is too big..the thing I liked about 1up was that it was a small tight knit community. It was small enough that we really knew each other! I hope here I can get that same feeling, and make as good of friends, and watch this grow.

I see Ben made his way here too! 

1up was the community. The website was something else but the community, the people and the feeling you got when geeky folks intereacted. It was like a pair of custom suit that just fit. With it ending, it brings about a lot of odd feelings, but I know in my heart that it ended a long time ago...we were simply going through the motions.