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But this last month has put that hectic period in 2007 to shame. In a little less than a month I’ve gone from “no concrete moving plans” to actually arriving in Japan with my three giant bags and a very grumpy daughter. I sold my cars, my furniture, and tens of pounds of books. We got rid of a huge amount of things and yet still needed around one hundred boxes to pack up our three bedroom house and ship it over to Japan. On Monday I registered as an official foreigner with my local city office, today I opened a new bank account, and tomorrow I will (hopefully) sign off on an apartment. Next Monday I am supposed to show up at work in Shibuya<\/a>. By the end of the month I hope to have a place to live, power, internet, and a phone. It’s been an insane month!<\/p>\n So anyway, this is my roundabout way of saying that I’ve neglected the blog a bit lately, especially since so many horror games are released around this time every year. My game systems won’t be here for another month, but I have my DS and games like Nanashi No Ge-mu and Mitewa Ikenai are quietly calling from their spot on the local store shelves. I hope to be back in proper posting form by the end of the month–thanks for sticking around.<\/p>\n
\nLike this, but on the ocean<\/p><\/div>Just over a year ago I had one of the busiest months of my life; when the game studio I was working for shut down, I suddenly found myself out of a job. In the span of about three weeks I had several job interviews, I flew to LA, New York, San Francisco, and finally Japan, I moved all of my things from one apartment to another, I attended a game development conference and I paid a lot of money to a lawyer. The only reason I even remember June of 2007 is that at some point Paul Reiche of Toys for Bob<\/a> suggested that I document things as they happened, which I did.<\/p>\n
![Shibuya<\/a>. By the end of the month I hope to have a place to live, power, internet, and a phone. It’s been an insane month!<\/p>\nSo anyway, this is my roundabout way of saying that I’ve neglected the blog a bit lately, especially since so many horror games are released around this time every year. My game systems won’t be here for another month, but I have my DS and games like Nanashi No Ge-mu and Mitewa Ikenai are quietly calling from their spot on the local store shelves. I hope to be back in proper posting form by the end of the month–thanks for sticking around.<\/p>\nAlso, check out this interesting interview about the sound design in Dead Space<\/i><\/a>. Via Destructoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just over a year ago I had one of the busiest months of my life; when the game studio I was working for shut down, I suddenly found myself out of a job. In the span of about three weeks I had several job interviews, I flew to LA, New York, San Francisco, and finally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.crab.rutgers.edu\/~seduffy\/Japan2007\/shibuya.JPG\"){kind=link}