HomeStation Presents: Caption This Picture #17
by Olivia_Allin, HSM photographer
We have a very special entry for you this time, because this time it’s a developer getting lampooned!
nDreams, for a long time, seemed to be a bit on the quiet side when it came to community outreach. They were the surrealists, locked away inside the funhouse behind the warped mirror reflected in Terry Gilliam’s eyeballs. No one knew much about them, except that their head guy was from Eidos and they made ARGs like Xi.
Then they brought in Joe Dale.
Joe is a bit like Steven Adler in the Guns N’ Roses lineup: he looks like the nice guy who somehow ended up in the wrong neighborhood and decided to stick around for a few beers. On the surface, Joe seems quite normal: he enjoys football, does not wear mysterious facial hair, and like the editors of this site, made the jump from consumer blogger to developer. And he golfs. Which, of course, proves that he is far too capable of holding a conversation about the sorts of things you might hear on Wake Up To Wogan and thus is obviously too normal for the world of video gaming.
But then you dig into his Twitter stream, and you realize that no, he is not quite normal, is he? There is clearly more than a glint of the Fraggle Rock in this boy’s eyes. Which, I suppose, would need to be there: to be a product manager for nDreams, with the vast scope of duties that entails and the challenge of translating nDreams’ esoteric mindwarp madness into something that the Radio 2 audience might comprehend, you have to be more than a little mental behind the Oxford collar.
And thus we present to you nDreams’ Joe Dale, doing something related to nDreams’ new SkyDIEving application. HSM readers, you know what to do: caption this picture!
August 24th, 2013 by Olivia_Allin | 16 comments
Olivia_Allin is a team writer, photographer, model, curator, graphic artist, researcher and comic relief for HomeStation Magazine; she lives in Texas with her boyfriend, and Home is more than just a game to her. Years ago she discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. On weekends, to let off steam, she participate in full-contact origami. She saw a Bigfoot once, made a sound you never want to hear twice, and was so proud of her Special Olympics gold medal that she had it bronzed. She is, in her own words, adorkable.
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