Hurricane Sandy's Effects on the Gaming Scene_ From Blacked-out Developers to a Guy Who Walked 3 Hou
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
Hurricane Sandy didn’t have an effect on the video game scene the way it would have if it had hit in a city like Montreal or San Francisco, where many of the most popular video games are made. But New York City and the surrounding region does w69 have a vibrant indie gaming scene, millions of passionate gamers, a lot of game shops, the headquarters of the site you’re currently reading and at least one game development studio you’ve all heard of. So, what did this storm do to us all? Nothing too bad as far as gaming is concerned. Nothing that comes close to the destruction it did to lives and homes across the Eastern Seaboard. It was more of a nuisance.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5957343","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Sandy shut down businesses in downtown Manhattan, which remain, four days after the hurricane, without power. Electricity is supposed to be restored today or tomorrow, according to ConEd, the utility whose 14th street power station exploded when Sandy hit. Among those thousands of businesses was Rockstar Games, which went dark when the rest of downtown lost power and wasn’t going to raise a fuss about it. But word was getting out that a new trailer was supposed to hit this week, so they updated fans to let them know it wouldn’t be happening. Not yet. The second Grand Theft Auto V trailer (first in a year!) was delayed because of the storm. While most of the development of GTA V is likely happening in Edinburgh, Scotland, home of Rockstar North, trailers tend to come from HQ in downtown New York. So it makes sense. Rockstar is pretty much across the street from NYU, which has a growing game design and game studies program called the Game Center, run by game designer Frank Lantz. He told me that they’re shut down until Monday but plans are still on track for the second annual “Practice” weekend games conference starting November 9. (Tickets still available.) One of Lantz’s students told me the storm had him playing w69 slot games, because, with no power, there just aren’t as many other things to do for fun. “My girlfriend and I are playing board games each night by candles in our dark apartment,” Game Center MFA candidate Shervin Ghazazani told me. He’s in Manhattan in the Chelsea neighborhood and has stuck around in the darkzone to feed his and his girlfriend’s two cats. “We are rediscovering the joy of classic board games such as Guess Who, Crazy Eights and Blockus,” he said. “Playing these games has helped us through this tough time. I don’t know what we would do each night when we get home for ~3hrs before we sleep.” I noticed Spelltower game designer Zach Gage talking about having no power on Twitter and hit him up. Maybe he had a story about what he was going through? A photo? He e-mailed back last night: “I’ve got no power no water and only recently Internet/cell service in my new 11-floor walk-up 🙂 I’ve just been reading comics, making food runs, and hanging out listening to my
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