I’m writing from a hotel tonight, on my phone, so forgive any typos and the fact I can’t see a word count.
Sadly I am not on holiday. I am staying overnight in glamorous Letchworth as I’m going in to the office tomorrow. I try and do this once a month or so in order to have a connection with my colleagues that is more than just bugging them on Teams, and it usually coincides with us all going out to lunch or something.
Tomorrow we’re hosting a small-scale press day of sorts, where a few writers and YouTubers are going to have the opportunity to see how and where we work, plus get a preview of some of our upcoming stuff. These include new Evercade cartridges that haven’t been released yet, and the Evercade Alpha bartop arcade units that are being released in November. Should be a fun day for all.
I’m particularly looking forward to having a fiddle with the Alphas myself, as up until this point I’ve only seen unfinished prototypes and photographs. There’s still work to be done before the November launch, but the samples we have in now should be fairly close to the final product. I’ll be doing my best to get a photo of Treasure Island Dizzy running on one, just to make Neil from The Cave and This Week in Retro happy.
I did not have a fun drive here, though. Insane traffic on the motorway brought things to a standstill for quite some time, though thankfully I’d had the foresight to queue up some episodes of the This Week in Retro podcast to keep me entertained, so I wasn’t flung into a complete apoplectic fury by the sight of endless brake lights ahead of me. I do, however, remain glad that most of the time, I can work from home and do not have to commute.
I’m a bit hungry, but at 11pm in a town as thoroughly unremarkable as Letchworth I feel my options are probably limited. May have to pop out and see if I can score some supper from somewhere, though…
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