5/05/2002 02:55:11 PM|||Travis|||

5/5/02
The days are creeping by. My dream last night involved.... old dorm type memories. Everyone was moving to different places. One memory is of a plane landing. The airport had a runway where planes landed and right after touchdown they went underneath a building. One of them didnt make it all the way onto the runway and hit the top of the entrance while trying to go into the tunnel. Flames errupted from the down below.
Today.... I have to do 154. I want to drop the class but that isnt really an option right now because I told sean I would do it for him and he is doing the 178 so I feel obligated. My head is slightly clearer, I need a long run today.
1- Develop a strategy for the guerrilla raid.
2- Draft the first PR
3- Get the layout of the website looking agreeable.
4- Change the layout of the current website
long term
1- Launch a successful marketing campaign.
2- Get publisher funding
3- Improve diabetes health
4- Graduate college
5- Get a girl

5/4/02
Ouch my head. I got to go get Jay and make our site for the new name DIGITAL ARCHONS. I think this is the one. It has a good conotation and is pretty sexy. I decided to structure the goals as the five things I should do today. Then if i want to add in five distant goals, that will work too.
1- Get the company website up
2- Get the game website changed
3- Read the marketing book
4- Read another book on writing press releases
5- Write the press release draft
6- compile the email list of game mag editors and website people.
Well shit god damn ass motherfucker. I am pissed off today for some reason. Well the company website is up but it looks like a pile of shit. The game website was untouched, the marketing book is not read and there was no work on either the business plan or the press release. I did compile the list of editors though, got around fifty. Need more... way more. I guess it wasnt soo bad. I dont know what is pissing me off so much. I think it is the amount of work..... starting to get to me. There is so much to do.
5/3/2002
Cant remember the dream... it was on the back of my mind. I got a lot of thinking done last night about the player controlled hierarchy. I think we might have something if we market it like that, but I dont want to to come off sounding hoaky. The other REALLY big idea is to launch the poltical system of the game well before the game itself, and allow fan sites to help develop the actual factions of the game. That way will are certain to get a following of people dedicated to the game already. I need to have something for them to do during this phase, negotiation etc. Something. We should assign resources first and allow the different players to have a bunch of ships to give out amonst their governments. Then we can establish who wants bases where, etc. It should be a role-playing experience from the get go. I just have to make it FUN. ARCANE LABS. WE FOUND A NAME.
1- Write the business plan
2- Get the Arcane Labs site up
3- Modify the eschaton site.
4- Improve diabetes health
5-write a grant
6- finish school
7- find a job
8- get a girlfriend
Well the name didnt work out so well. As it turns out there is already someone with arcane studios that is making a game. So bo ho. Ok I found out that PR will make this company and am going to launch a massive PR campaign set forth with the guerilla tactics. What it really needs to be is a contact data base of phone numbers and emails. I fire the emails and then call them to make sure they got it. So there was no work on the b-plan today. The site is not up, and the game site is not modified. I think i need to stick with five goals from here on out, 10 is a bit many. Need to sleep.... smoked some pot. Met a business consultant. I understand them now.

5/2/2002
Dream- I am at a airport and planes are falling form the sky, commercial airliners and military planes. There is some goal or purpose these planes are trying to accomplsih, such as win a ware i think, but failing. They all end up craashing, and i get the impression I am to go where they left offf and fix this problem. I finnally board a plane but it turns into a simulation and the left wing has a bug where it gets caught in a situation where it keeps moving in a circle, even after we remove the engine from the simulation. Only looking back now do I realize how strange that is, in the dream it was perfectly acceptable to transition from reality to simulation. There is also these fake pussies that keep coming out of nowhere, and I start having sex with them, sometimes in front of people.
Ok some wierd shiet to say the least. But here are some goals for today.
1- Write the Business Plan
2- Modify the Website
3- Improve Diabetes Health
4- Finish school
5- find a house and get Logan to move in
6- find a job
7- write a grant proposal
8- get a gal
9- Get an MBA at Harvard

5/1/2002
I had a dream last night. We were on this mountain top in some sort of park, solving a mystery. We were interviewing people and talking to them. Then some of them for no reason decided to jump off a cliff down into a parking lot for fun. Later on I was traveling back home to MT in my truck. Cody was with me.
Goals should be distant and they should not change from day to day.
1- Write a damn good business plan
2- Improve Diabetes health
3- Finish school
4- Fix the webpage
5- Find a job
6- Find a house
7- Read a book
8- Find a Gal
Well I DID get some good work done on the business plan. I mapped out product growth cycles for a number of games, and will get some more tomorrow. I want to do Asheron's Call, Jumpgate, and some other UN-successful ones to show that there is a risk and I know what I am talking about. Talking to the New Pencil guy was AWESOME. I didnt realize he was the CEO until afterwards and we had a good discussion about the gaming industry, how to pitch investors and other such good stufff. Tommorrow... lets seee is a thurs. Morning class followed by Chris' class and then I am done, considering I never go to 178 or 154 anymore. It is a shame. Tomorrow I work on finding a couple more game stats, maybe some international ones too, to balance things out.
4/30/2002

Well if feels like there is no progression for the business plan. I want to have a working copy by this weekend, but other things keep creeping up and demanding attention. i will have to neglect other things, such as the grant proposal for example. It is all a matter of prority. No dreams to speak of- excpet for the hallucination of a black cat on my pillow, reminded me of cody.
1- Write a business plan
2- Write a grant proposal
3- Do homework
4- Patch up the webpage
5- Make a video
6- Read guerrila PR
7- Read why we get sick
8- Write the game design doc

Wild manic thoughts ran rampant today from around 11-2. Interesting, i wonder what fueled it. We narrowed the search for the modeler down, making some calls tomorrow to get some specifics about the entire modeling process. I have a pretty clear picture of what needs to be acomplished for certain parts of the business plan. I have seven days, and need to devote around fifty hours. My calculator tells me this is seven hours a day. Holy shit. I should check my schedule and allocate the time..... weekends are free time remember. I can get it done. Everything else must be de-prioritized however. I WILL HAVE A WORKING COPY FOR WED. Then I will begin the revision process, so it will all be ready for E3. I also need to make the publisher proposal. My daily goals also should be solidified, so the same ones come to the top everyday. Focus, focus. Well tomorrow I will wake up and then make a bunch of phone calls for the spaceship modeler, with the specifics on how the model needs to be made. I have class from 2-3 and from 6-9. I have time from 11-2, 3-6, and 9-12. Nine hours of productivity, I should be able to get a good chunk taken out of the b-plan.
4/29/2002
Well we stayed up until 4 or so and it ruined me. It is so silly to do that shit, I am just really tired and in effective in the night which then carries over into the day. It was disconcerning what a big deal both Jay and Jake made about my spelling. I dont think that they have too much faith in me. I am going to prove otherwise.
1- Get the publisher proposal in order
2- Get the game design doc up and running
3- Get the grant proposal down
4- Take care of HW for classes
5- Launch Ixtek's PR campaign, and do it right
6- Meet more contacts for the diabetes research
7- meet more contacts for Ixtek
8- Write the actual business plan for Dad and other small time investors
9- Incorporate the comapny
10- Contact international publishers

Sunday, 4/28/2002
Today is the day of the meeting. I am hoping Peter Levine has emailed me some advice by now, but he probably has not. I guess i will go it alone. I need to research stock structure before we have this meeting, so we can develop a plan to meet our needs.
Inspired from the research last night- ShadowBane was like us and they pulled off good PR. They positioned themselves behind EQ, and solved all the things people did not like about it. They also signed with 2 smaller international publishers before landing a deal with UbiSoft. Seeing how the American market is tight and usually other nations have a hard time getting good games, this is a good strategy. I should find out what other games signed with smaller publishers first.
Goals are
1- Create a Vision for Ixtek that everyone agrees with
2- Create a P R campaign for Ixtek similar to Shadowbane
3- Contact smaller international publishers and date them
4- Get the business plan and publisher documents in order to send to smaller publishers before E3
5- Tell everyone I want to be labeled the Vice- President of Sales and Marketing or the CEO
6- Write the Grant proposal
7- Do 178 HW
I enjoyed reading a bunch of stuff on game design while assembling an official looking design doc for us. Hopefully there will be a bunch of stuff that hops out at me after I get everything we currently have assembeled. I had a shitty case of writers block today, or maybe not writers block persay but suddently all my writing sounded shitty. Maybe it was my mood.
Well there was no official meeting today on stock or titles. I think i was ahead of myself when i was trying to get my position to be CEO. If I want to have a fancy title, it will come when I do the work that said fancy title person would do. And So I push On. Tomorrow I will work on the Grant Proposal in the morning and during the day. Interwoven with Jay's class and then gym and then 178 HW with Cameron along with re-stringing my guitar.


4/27/2002
Goals for today were to email Peter Levine, tim and Mary-margret. All acomplished along with emailing the press in Brazil. I also wanted to spend a large portion of the day on the diabetes research which happened but not to the extent I wanted.
Tomorrow I want to have a good understanding of what type of stock structure Ixtek should use. When we meet in the afternoon I want to have a vision speech prepared for the team. We have to raise synergy, motivation and the level of commitment. I really want to output all that i think about what I like and dont like and what I should do in the company. It can be sumerized as not doing anymore coding, because I am not that effective and dont find it personally satisfying at least right now. I will help out as needed, but would much rather handle all business relations. Make it clear that I want to be the one who will get this project financed, somehow. By communicated my commitment hopefully I can get others to commit, both time and money.
Finnally got the plan ready for what needs to be accomplished for E3
My goals
1- Get a company synergy for Ixtek
2- Establish my position as CEO
3- Finish a well crafted business plan for a publisher
4- Finish a well crafted business plan for my father and uncle
5- Write a decent proposal for a grant to research Diabetes
6- Get a job with ExpertCity in Communications
7- Find a girlfriend
8- Get more members for our team

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