Macguffin Games

As we ring in the new year…

To coin the phrase, it’s been a hell of a year.

Macguffin Games has come a huge way in the past twelve months.  What was originally me trying to figure out how to code in my guest bedroom has turned into a project with three full-time developers (more on that in a minute), over 11,000 lines of our own code, and an impending 1/15 deadline for PAX East that I’m 100% certain we’ll hit.

And speaking of three full time developers, I’d like to officially welcome Whitney Sternberg to the Macguffin Games team as our main coder.  She is indeed related to Graham – they’re siblings.  I’ve known her for over ten years now, and have always been impressed by how responsible and serious she was.  As a note, this is in stark contrast to Graham… sometimes we wonder about his getting dressed in the morning.  I personally think he has some sort of Wallace and Gromit contraption that catapults him into his fashionable clothing.

When Whitney was interested in working on the game full-time, I jumped at the chance to have her.  It was a fantastic decision; in a nutshell, she’s one whole hell of a lot better at it than I am!  Life may take her in other directions past PAX, but I will try to tempt her into staying with the huge wads of cash we’ll be flush with at that point.

Err.. yeah.  Moving on.

As I’ve said in a previous post, I realize there isn’t a lot out there about the game yet… that’s a good thing, I think.  Prior to the last couple months, there was way too much about the game that just existed vaguely in my mind.  With the addition of Whitney and the looming presence of our deadline, progress has accelerated hugely.  I expect that after our 1/15 deadline we’ll be able to talk intelligently about the game on the blog.  And heck, maybe even in other media outlets.  Who knows?

So – from all of us here at the Macguffin Games team, we wish you a Happy New Year!  2010 is going to be a big year for us.  Stay tuned.