Farsides - Free Software Video Game Studio http://farsides.com Free Software Video Game Studio Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:42:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How We Work While Traveling The World http://farsides.com/2012/01/13/how-we-work-while-traveling-the-world/ http://farsides.com/2012/01/13/how-we-work-while-traveling-the-world/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:42:30 +0000 Xavier Antoviaque http://farsides.com/?p=410

Over the last 6 months, I’ve been experimenting with a new lifestyle. While working at Farsides, I’ve been spending the majority of my time traveling. When people hear me saying this, it usually raises a few eyebrows:

- “You mean you’re going on holidays, right?”

- “Have fun, but this is going to make communication difficult – you’ll lose focus and go slower”

- “How can you afford this?”

The truth is, it took us a while to figure out how to make this work well. You just can’t expect to work like in a “normal” office – some habits have to be re-learned. But you also get a lot from it. And the usual glittering I see in many eyes when I talk about my lifestyle tells me more people would love to do this. I hope this series can inspire you to do the same : )

In this first post, I’ll focus on some of the methods we used to tackle the issues associated with remote working, especially regarding the communication.

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]]> http://farsides.com/2012/01/13/how-we-work-while-traveling-the-world/feed/ 0 Decide the next step for Card Stories! http://farsides.com/2011/12/19/decide-the-next-step-for-card-stories/ http://farsides.com/2011/12/19/decide-the-next-step-for-card-stories/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:36:39 +0000 Tartaruga Feliz http://farsides.com/?p=395 Help us to decide the next big feature of our beloved game!
http://stats.farsides.com/survey/index.php?sid=15462&newtest=Y&lang=en

COOL!! \o/!!

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]]> http://farsides.com/2011/10/27/card-stories-at-cite-des-sciences/feed/ 0 Finally! :) http://farsides.com/2011/10/24/finally-2/ http://farsides.com/2011/10/24/finally-2/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:52:46 +0000 Xavier Antoviaque http://farsides.com/?p=383 After months of cooking and alpha-testing, the first beta of Card Stories is there :D

If you have 5 minutes to spare, I invite you to come and try it – need feedback please! :p

cardstories.org

]]> http://farsides.com/2011/10/24/finally-2/feed/ 0 The Octopus attack http://farsides.com/2011/07/21/the-octopus-attack/ http://farsides.com/2011/07/21/the-octopus-attack/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:20:15 +0000 Tartaruga Feliz http://farsides.com/?p=253 Well, what can I say? Mission accomplished! We had tons of fun, and even if I scared everyone on the RMLL with my horrible Octopus costume, when we went back to our stand, there was a lot of kids having fun. What else could we want?

Watch the video here

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