Sorry for no updates.It’s holiday for most of us : ) We’ll start to update here again in late August, beginning of September : )

As you might notice there aren’t to much to read here. That’s mainly because many of the people are away at the moment at nothing really happens right now. We start to update when things get going again : )

Since Nixi and other members at Databox won’t read this blog for a few days, I will do a sneaky thing : p

Some month ago I found a nice looking sketch of an enemy when I scrabbled around Nixis sketches. It was a rejected sketch of an enemy for PoH. I loved it, but it was turned down or forgotten about. Soooooo I thought I post it here so you can have a look at it and say what you think about it : ) Is it just me that likes it?

It’s been around +30 degrees Celsius today and no wind. I went out to fish around 7 pm and I stoped around 9pm when it was still to hot (about 23-25+). It’s great that the summer has arrived : ) It looks like it will be the same tomorrow, so I’ll be a the beach (work morning, get a tan, work at night). To bad that not every job can’t have this work schedule.

As I said a few days ago, the first weeks of June it’s moslty bad and rainy weather  here in Sweden and it mostly rains on “midsummer eve”. But after that the summer usually comes : ) No exception this year, today it’s about 25 degress Celsius (77+ Faherneheit) and this next week will be the same … all sunny : )

Yesterday a nice/strange thing happened when I drove out to the coast to fish (in Ängelholm). Suddenly all cars started to use their horns and I though -”well it’s probably some students that have taken their degree”. Then the next moment a Koenigsegg drow up at the side of my car. First I thought of trying to race, but I guessed that would just seam pathetic :p so I didn’t. Koenigsegg makes the car in the area (in the town of Ängelholm) so I guessed it was out on a test run.

Koenigsegg just bought Saab from GM so it will be interesting how that will turn out.

I know, no updates regarding PoH (it will probably slow down this sunny week : )

Today it’s “Midsummer eve” here in Sweden and no one is working because everyone is partying and celebrating summer, … in the rain :p

Since we have many people outside Sweden I first thought that I was going to tell you about how and why we celebrate it, but the text on Wikipedia was good so I though Wiki could tell you why : )

-”In modern Sweden, Midsummer’s Eve and Midsummer’s Day (Midsommarafton and Midsommardagen) were formerly celebrated on June 23th and 24th, but since the 1950’s on the Friday between June 19th and June 25th and the following Saturday. It is arguably the most important holiday of the year, and one of the most uniquely Swedish in the way it is celebrated, even if it has been influenced by other countries long ago. The main celebrations take place on the Friday, and the traditional events include raising and dancing around a huge maypole. One typical dance is the frog dance. Before the maypole is raised, greens and flowers are collected and used to cover the entire pole.

Raising and dancing around a maypole (majstång or midsommarstång) is an activity that attracts families and many others. People dancing around the pole listen to traditional music and many wear traditional folk costumes. The year’s first potatoes, pickled herring, sour cream, and possibly the first strawberries of the season are on the menu. Drinking songs are also important at this feast, and many drink heavily.

Because Midsummer was thought to be one of the times of the year when magic was strongest, it was considered a good night to perform rituals to look into the future. Traditionally, young people pick bouquets of seven or nine different flowers and put them under their pillow in the hope of dreaming about their future spouse. In the past it was believed that herbs picked at Midsummer were highly potent, and water from springs could bring good health. The connection to fertility is naturally linked to the time of year. Many young people became passionate at Midsummer, and this was accepted, probably because it resulted in more childbirths in March which was a good time for children to be born.”

So now you know more about Midsummer eve than most Swedish people :p

Many of our friends at the University of Gotland and also some of the Databox people are leaving the island (Gotland) for the summer. Therefor things will probably not move as fast as they have done before summer but we’ll try do the best we can anyway : ) Things will probably speed up in a few month again.

Today there’s nothing really more to post.

It sounds really good, but the fact is that during June it’s mostly shitty weather. Normal is that in April and May we have really great weather with about 15-25+ degrees (Celsius) and then when summer should start in June we have a month of kind of bad weather with rain and about 15-20+ degrees.

So why do I write this? Well, it’s because it’s been typical “Swedish summer weather” now for about 2 weeks now and it’s so boring : ( Well I guess the summer will start here late in June so in a couple of weeks it will be all nice I think : )

Later today/tonight we’ll have the first big meeting since GGA and will discuss all the feedback we got. Everyone has written down all the feedback they got/heard from the people playing PoH. At the meeting we’ll decide what things we’ll have to redo and tweek.

As you might already know, a friend of ours is making the first teaser for Penalty of Heroes. It originates from a sketch we made a couple of months ago. So far we have seen two teasers/trailers that use the same concept, both video game trailers and trailers from movies. I had not seen them before we started working on our teaser, so I can gladly state that the concepts were not stolen, but right for 2009. We’ll release this teaser very soon : )

Anyways, we are currently sketching on another trailer. The trailer has more of the story to tell obviously, but we tend to keep it short and none spoiler wise. There’s nothing more disturbing than watching a trailer that slaps you in the face and says “this is how the movie ends” or shows the last boss in action. No one wants to see that and we’re planning to keep it that way. However, we need to find something that’s interesting. And believe me; not giving away too much, is going to be tough.

* Jens comment *
We’ll see if this “story trailer” will be made (I hope so). It’s more about having time or finding someone to do it and also convincing the other on the team that it’s a good idea (hope our teaser making friend can help us out). This trailer will tell the “pre story” and set the mood for the game and the time frame for it to be done is about the beginning of the summer (June). We also had thoughts of doing a one minute movie about each character, but we haven’t got the time to do it as good as we want it to be, so we decided not  do it. Though we’ll present them on this blog in a similar way in this following month. More of that in a few days : )