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Clear Skies was a 45 minute machinima movie created using EVE Online and Half-Life 2 to tell the story of a snarky, down-on-their luck courier crew swept up into the politics of the EVE universe.

I say "was" because now it's a series of movies with the release of Clear Skies 2.

Even if you don't play EVE Online, it's a fun space opera story in the style of Firefly, which uses both graphic engines to amazing use. If you haven't seen machinima before, this is a good place to start (then followed by Red vs. Blue).

And now, back to work and hermiting.

So recently, my company released a huge change to one of their games that has some people upset, some people happy and many people talking....

That's right, the EVE Online: Apocrypha expansion released today.

I'm actually excited about this because I contributed a handful of missions and some other content support to this release. It's my first video game work, and I'm really excited to see how it looks "in the wild." I'm installing the expansion now. It was a very different experience from my usual work, and I'm not used to working creatively with such a large team, I learned a hell of a lot from it.

So, if you find yourself playing in a series of missions hunting down a rogue drone, I likely had something to do with that. :)