Ludo-whatnow?

[prog]

Just had reason to touch up my LinkedIn profile. Re-aimed the Volity link to the increasingly useful company page Zarf made, changed my profile's headline from "Software Consultant" to "Software Consultant and Ludocentric Entrepreneur", and added this graf to my description:

I am also the president of Volity Games (http://volity.com), a little startup I run with a few friends. Through various experimental web-based projects, as well as a blog and occasional TV show we produce, we study games as a communication medium, and seek innovative new ways for people to come together through play.

Half of me is rolling his eyes, and half of me says "Yeah, sounds about right."

Comments

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I had no idea what volity.com was about until now. And I've had an idea for building an online game (not an original game, an old pencil-and-paper game) and was pondering what platform to build it on.

[xach.livejournal.com]

Wow, volity.com's a lot uglier than I remember it. Those desaturated grayish shades of blue and green remind me of canned green beans.

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

Volity.com is a site design I pulled out of the place one usually pulls site designs out of, at the last minute.

I can see where you're coming from re the sidebar whitespace (greyish-green-space). I could change that, although it kind of eats the rest of the page if I make it much lighter or darker than it is now.

The rest of the page, I'm still pretty happy with. Including the blue and green stripes. Sorry. :)

[xach.livejournal.com]

When did it change? It used to be prettier...

[prog.livejournal.com]

I think you're thinking of the Volity Network website (http://volity.net), which Rob Oliver designed, and which is Still There.

[xach.livejournal.com]

Ah, you're right. Sorry for the confusion.

[radtea.livejournal.com]

"Ludocentric" is a lovely word. Gotta figure out how to work it into casual conversation!

[dianamp04.livejournal.com]

Perhaps instead of saying "a little starup I run with a few friends" which kind of sounds like your belittling your own company, why don't you say "s start up I run with a few colleagues" or something?

[prog.livejournal.com]

Good idea, thanks.

I was surprised at the down-on-myself quality of the description that used to be there, and removed several such sentences while adding that one. But you're right, it's still got too much false humility attached. (It's a bad habit I get from working with radiotelescope. Haha.)

[dianamp04.livejournal.com]

Well stop that! :-P To you, it's false humility, to other's it's "wow, even the president has no faith in this company. Must suck big time"

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

See, now I don't know if you mean my devil-advocating ways have ground you down, or if you just picked up my own enormous self-antipromoting habits.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Definitely mean the latter. You're not the only source of "Gee, I sure do suck" in my sphere, and I was doing it before I met you, but I consider you a significant vector for the habit anyway.

Believe me, I'm a big fan and promoter of criticizing other people. (See above.)