A lot has happened at work recently! There was lots of hustle and bustle over the new Cash shop, evolving items, and Halloween Event. And of course to top it all off there were the usual MC's to attend to, all at the saaame time. It's been quite exhausting, but I'm glad we managed to get through it all and deliver everything to users smoothly (for the most part whee ).
There was also the Halloween Decorating contest for the office, where the art department made our tribute to Super Mario Bros. Ghost house. It was also a lot of work, but it was really fun to have a change of pace from the usual workload and to get into the Halloween spirit!
I'm really excited this month to be able to wear the new Wild Things MC! I'm happily riding my golden roc, which I've named Nick. Why Nick? I'm a fan of the Nintendo DS game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, and I've been playing #2 recently. If you've ever played the game, you'll know that the main character Phoenix's nickname is Nick. And since I like to think the roc looks like a baby phoenix, thus I've named him Nick XD
I've seen a lot of discussion on GCD about how the roc strongly resembles the chocobo from Square-Enix's Final Fantasy. I love Final Fantasy myself (but personally I prefer me some Kingdom Hearts! whee ) and Final Fantasy is undoubtedly also well loved by many Gaia users, and of course Gaia staff. I think giant bird mounts are made quite popular by Final Fantasy, but I also think that many stories, anime, and games draw inspiration for their designs from many of the same places.
I think if the users who love chocobos also love the roc, and would like to think of the similar design as a tribute to Final Fantasy, then they are totally welcome to think that way ^____^
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Well in any case, I'm really happy that so many users enjoy the roc, because I really enjoyed working on it >w< heart heart heart *pets Nick*
until next time, I'll try to post more than once every 2 months. redface
 superphi · Fri Nov 16, 2007 @ 08:17pm · 4 Comments |
