Archive for April, 2008
“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real”
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
This quote by Jules Verne was engraved at the entrance of my High School, on a giant marble pillar in the middle of the building.
Every day, going to school, I was reading it. There were times when I even felt pissed off just by looking at it, because reading that meant 8 hours of stressful lessons coming up.
I never really appreciated what he meant with this quote until today.
I was 14 at the time, the good old Amiga days… I was much more addicted to videogames back then than I am today, and there was this fantastic, revolutionary game that came out called “Hunter“.
Hunter was the very first “sandbox-style” game, a game with a fixed storyline but where you could literally do what you want, explore, do missions, or just walk around in an open world scenario. This was still in the very early stages, you could explore a few islands, get on cars / boats / etc but in a limited way.
I remember clearly, at the time, imagining that kind of adventure in an extremely realistic and huge world, where you could have an immersive complete virtual life experience, and I was thinking: “I wonder if one day we will get that. It would be the perfect game.”
Well, that day is today.
Grand Theft Auto 4, just released by Rockstar games, is the game I was imagining when I was 14, and it took 16 years of advancements in Technology to get to this point, but it did happen.
Jules Verne was right.
History, according to Luca Luciani
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
And we keep wondering why all major Italian companies are either going bankrupt or getting bought for peanuts by foreign multinationals.
The idiot you will see in the following video, Luca Luciani, is Chief Marketing Officer at Telecom Italia Mobile. He earns around €800.000 a year, and to motivate his subordinates he prepares a wondeful speech about Napoleon’s masterpiece victory at … Waterloo.
What else to say? Chief Marketing Officer? Go back to the elementary school, moron.
Thought of The Day
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
Berlusconi is back! YEY!
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
Elections are over in Italy.
These two persons you see here on the left are the ones who will take care of ruling my country for the next few years.
A mafioso (Berlusconi) and a poor mental retard with revolutionary manias (Bossi).
lol.
Moondus, Take 2
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
Moondus, the 3D platform I am working on with my colleagues at Virtual Italian Parks, is coming along extremely well.
We finally reached production stage, and clients interested in publishing their content with our engine have just started to arrive as well! :)
A lot has changed in the background since I last posted a video about it, and I think the final result we achieved is nothing short of amazing, especially for guys like us that worked in 3D engineering for the very first time.
