5/12/05 - The third draft of Space Orphans was completed on 5/10/05.
Copyediting has begun as has work on the fourth draft. As I am unsure
when copyediting will complete I cannot give an estimate on when the
fourth draft will be completed.

Details of the next generation X-Box are rumored to have been leaked.
The copy I saw mentioned a ridiculous number of pixels that can be
displayed per second. Apparently we have jumped straight from
reasonable frames per second to the unimaginable future where we
count pixels per second using the word billions.

Last night I attended a Boston Post Mortem meeting. I was discussing
with a friend of mine who develops games for the cellphone how his
portion of the industry will probably be doing a lot better than the
rest in the coming years. Reviewers, publishers, and at times
customers demand more. More content, more features, more textures,
more levels, more gameplay, and better AI. At the same time they want
all of this to work with a graphics standard that has been raised
beyond belief. Maybe Lorne Landing's decision to take Oddworld
Inhabitants from the games industry to the film industry actually is
justified. Does it matter that the game industry has more income than
the film industry? A film takes less time to make. In some cases it
takes less people to make. The question is, on average, which takes
more man hours? In the game industry the man hours average is
increasing. The film industry's man hours are staying about the same.
With the exception of MMORPGs, I hope games can go back to focusing
about game design and leave concerns about technology behind.