Georgia is Gaming
Brian Crecente, the night editor of Kotaku, says:
I received an interesting package from the State of Georgia over the weekend. It was from the Digital Entertainment Liaison for the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Film, Music and Video office.
Inside was a copy of the “Videogame Style Guide and Reference Manual” and little pack of press releases singing the praises of Georgia and pointing out that the state has become “a hotbed for video game industry development.”
Hotbed you say? Read on…
October 13th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
the problem with all this is that what they have to change most about georgia is the climate. game devs still complain about the e3s that were held in georgia as being terrible for various reasons with one of them being how the southern humidity affected their west coast cushioned bodies.
short of building a series of biodomes to house trasplanted bay area denizens, i don’t see georgia being able to shake this unless they are ready to cost georgia taxpayers money giving insane incentives to get companies to relocate there.
October 15th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Being from Mississippi and having lived in the East Bay for a year, I can say that Atlanta’s “heat” reputation is undeserved. IMHO, it feels almost as nice here in GA as it did in CA. August was hot, but Hayward was hot for about 2 months in 2006… with no A/C!
At least in GA they wouldn’t dream of building apartments without A/C standard.
Of course, MS, AL and LA are far worse than Atlanta. The humidity in GA is tame by comparison.