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-Super Meat Boy regarding Super Meat Boy

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Twitter - TubaticPrime

Highlights from my blog include:

-2010 Sucked: Fable III Exemplifies the Year in Disappointement*Promoted Blog
-Keep It Complicated, Stupid
-What Wii Gaming is Like for Me*Promoted Blog
-I, The Author: How I Stole the Declaration of Independance*Promoted blog




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Way of The Samurai, Shadow of the Colossus, Castle Crashers, Jet Grind Radio, ICO, Super DodgeBall, Canabalt, Final Fantasy VI and X-Com are some of the finest games ever made in ever

Xbox Live: Tubatic
PSN: Tubatic
Wii Console Code: 3554-2775-5012-0810
Tatsunoko Vs Capcom Code: 2107-0561-3043
Brawl Friend Code: 1762-2359-5359 "Tbatc"

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Players can elect to summon "cartoony" versions of bats, bombs, guns, and flamethrowers. These types of items can be used to destroy objects or even other summoned items (e.g., a club can be used to hit an animal; steak can be attached to a baby to attract lions; rockets can be lobbed at a man).

-From the ESRB description of Scribblenauts

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"Right after getting back to Japan, [Miyamoto] suddenly said: "You know we're including golf now." Apparently he'd stated in an interview that this time round golf shots would be determined by the backswing, even though at that time a golf game didn't exist in any shape or form!"

-A Nintendo Staffer explaining why Golf was added to Wii Sports Resort

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"I have seen the Summa that everyone talks about. And I want to pour gasoline on him and cut off his ear. "

-Pendleton21 after listening to the disavowed Podtoid 94: So Baller

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"question, did you play with controller or keyboard?

because controller is unplayable"
-Luc Bernard re: the first release version of Eternity's Child on Steam

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"Just because u like a game doesn't mean u have to give it a high score"
-excerpt from the epic trolling on the Prototype review, inFamous/Protoype Wars, June 2009

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I Love My Job in QA! Tubatic | 8:56 AM on 07.09.2008 12 comments

I've mentioned before that I work in QA. Beyond, that I can't talk about the specific projects we're working on or the companies we do work for. However, its no industry secret that I work with cell phones and related tech. Its cool enough getting ample hands on time with the newest phones. But the big fun comes from figuring out how to convert/break nifty new features like slide out keyboard inputs and touch screens. This can result in moments at work that make me pause and think how excellent my job really is (which I already love, despite its challenges). For example, the other day, one of our developers calls me over to get my opinion on touch screen functionality for a game that we had never done touch functionality for before. Between figuring out how much functionality was expected, and giving my opinion on good gameplay experience, I effectively "produced" that portion of development. This blew my mind. A tester in his native environment. I didn't just become Shigeru Miyamoto or Keiji Inafune, and I haven't passed into the public face marketing side like a Jade Raymond. But right there, at my little job in the "little" cell phone porting industry, I just had a real design decision come under my professional consultation. Pardon me if I geek out, but that was amazing! Few people will ever experience the effects of that decision, and likely no one will even know I had a part in it. But I'm looking back at my pre-teenage, Gameboy toting self, with those big, game designer dreams, and he's totally spazzing out with joy. My name is David, and I work in the game industry. I add testing and design advice to give the game more depth. Only then does the game become complete . . . Attached photos: