Comments on: YDreams wins honorable mention at the MIX09 Showoff Competition http://www.ydreams.com/blog/2009/03/26/ydreams-wins-honorable-mention-at-the-mix09-showoff-competition/ The official company blog about technology, projects, corporate life and all things YDreams Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:07:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Maria Palma http://www.ydreams.com/blog/2009/03/26/ydreams-wins-honorable-mention-at-the-mix09-showoff-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1576 Maria Palma Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:47:43 +0000 http://www.ydreams.com/blog/?p=297#comment-1576 Thank you Artur Thank you Artur

]]> By: Artur http://www.ydreams.com/blog/2009/03/26/ydreams-wins-honorable-mention-at-the-mix09-showoff-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1575 Artur Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:52:37 +0000 http://www.ydreams.com/blog/?p=297#comment-1575 Congratulations Congratulations

]]> By: Pedro Costa (other) http://www.ydreams.com/blog/2009/03/26/ydreams-wins-honorable-mention-at-the-mix09-showoff-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1571 Pedro Costa (other) Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:37:53 +0000 http://www.ydreams.com/blog/?p=297#comment-1571 (Not the same Pedro Costa) Hi! I "follow" your company since your first incursion in the games industry(my main interest). Your growth during the years surprised me, as well as many people, whether Portuguese or Foreign. (the Portuguese tvshow about tecnology "2010" was always talking about your works) During all these years I saw Ydreams with great admiration: Admiration for your work, commitment, innovation and results. Now Ydreams is bigger and better than ever! I hope you keep having success and dare to Dream! ( Personal desire:I hope one day you forget the past bad experiences and start slowly to invest in games industry again. I know that your goals changed, and such a thing would need to be very well analyzed. I'll drop here one thought of mine: There is an independent AAA quality Portuguese game project, that has been recently canceled due to investment problems (I guess it was being financed by venture capital). They have the most part of the game engine done. For what has been seen in some youtube videos released by the company, the game engine was in a quite evolved stage, and showed good skills by the software team. In my personal view, they had a very 'occidental' game design, based mainly on the software technology, and lacking on ideas and innovation. Ideas and innovation is something quite abundant at Ydreams :D! Of course that the fact that they were being financed by risk capitals may bring some property issues. So far they had raised 5 million euros. They probably need more 2-4 million euros. ) NOTE1: Company:Move interactive: http://www.move-interactive.com/ 5M€ -->http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:3FcQT-oNJTgJ:www.gesventure.pt/blogs/20071114_Focus_Move%2520Interactive.pdf+ugo+volt+milhoes&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a NOTE2:Any similarity with Mr. Hideo Kojima's GDC keynote is purely coincidence. :D NOTE3:If my desire seemed to had a high "a**hole quotient", then you got it wrong. I'm a modest guy, just excited. I obviously am very ignorant about the whole thing I described, but just felt like saying it. NOTE4:I'm currently on my 1st year of computer science. Every Portuguese student of informatics is being inspired by your innovations and creativity, and seeing your company as a top place to work. NOTE5:Move interactive didn't pay me to say this! I just like to support my country's enterprises. The one's I like! Sorry for the long reply! (Not the same Pedro Costa)
Hi!

I “follow” your company since your first incursion in the games industry(my main interest).
Your growth during the years surprised me, as well as many people, whether Portuguese or Foreign.
(the Portuguese tvshow about tecnology “2010″ was always talking about your works)

During all these years I saw Ydreams with great admiration: Admiration for your work, commitment, innovation and results.

Now Ydreams is bigger and better than ever!
I hope you keep having success and dare to Dream!

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Personal desire:I hope one day you forget the past bad experiences and start slowly to invest in games industry again. I know that your goals changed, and such a thing would need to be very well analyzed.
I’ll drop here one thought of mine:
There is an independent AAA quality Portuguese game project, that has been recently canceled due to investment problems (I guess it was being financed by venture capital).
They have the most part of the game engine done.
For what has been seen in some youtube videos released by the company, the game engine was in a quite evolved stage, and showed good skills by the software team.
In my personal view, they had a very ‘occidental’ game design, based mainly on the software technology, and lacking on ideas and innovation.
Ideas and innovation is something quite abundant at Ydreams :D!

Of course that the fact that they were being financed by risk capitals may bring some property issues.
So far they had raised 5 million euros. They probably need more 2-4 million euros.
)

NOTE1:
Company:Move interactive: http://www.move-interactive.com/
5M€ –>http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:3FcQT-oNJTgJ:www.gesventure.pt/blogs/20071114_Focus_Move%2520Interactive.pdf+ugo+volt+milhoes&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a

NOTE2:Any similarity with Mr. Hideo Kojima’s GDC keynote is purely coincidence. :D

NOTE3:If my desire seemed to had a high “a**hole quotient”, then you got it wrong. I’m a modest guy, just excited. I obviously am very ignorant about the whole thing I described, but just felt like saying it.

NOTE4:I’m currently on my 1st year of computer science. Every Portuguese student of informatics is being inspired by your innovations and creativity, and seeing your company as a top place to work.

NOTE5:Move interactive didn’t pay me to say this! I just like to support my country’s enterprises. The one’s I like!

Sorry for the long reply!

]]> By: Maria Palma http://www.ydreams.com/blog/2009/03/26/ydreams-wins-honorable-mention-at-the-mix09-showoff-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1569 Maria Palma Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:21:31 +0000 http://www.ydreams.com/blog/?p=297#comment-1569 Thanks for the support Pedro :) Thanks for the support Pedro :)

]]> By: Pedro Costa http://www.ydreams.com/blog/2009/03/26/ydreams-wins-honorable-mention-at-the-mix09-showoff-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1567 Pedro Costa Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:52:01 +0000 http://www.ydreams.com/blog/?p=297#comment-1567 Congratulations, it’s really important to have one’s work recognized by their peers. Keep pushing the limits of our dreams. Congratulations, it’s really important to have one’s work recognized by their peers.

Keep pushing the limits of our dreams.

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