Sometime everything is against you, like today I had to do a  lots of paper work for our company and bank so we  finally can  get pay for our other game Exhaust. It’s god dame boring but have to be done, it’s 30+ Celsius (86+ Fahrenheit) and all the girls are running around in there new summer clothes outside dozenth increase my concentration either,  maybe i well grade myself i swim in the ocean after this.

Oh I forgot, the politician weekend this week and then your not allowed to go through the  town naked :/ to bad

Eight of the members of Databox Games are stage on Gotland in our home office, it has it’s benefits that you can just turn your head or walk over to the other office when something is unclear. It’s easy to see when people work and make progress or mistakes. The good part is also the bad party, because when you work on the same ting all the time you can easily blind yourself with your work, or take design question for granted if you over heard some people in the team working.

Those are the reasons why I’m very happy to have Jens that always question how things are or progress, so I don’t overseen some important stuff. As he said yesterday “I have to drag out information from you”, this is because I sometimes believe that everything is crystal clear, but if something is not it well easy / early be discovered by the people.

** Jens comment **
Well I have a tendency to take the role of “the devils advocate”, this so important things are not forgotten or things overlooked because no one take care of them. Also I’m quite a control person so I like to know where things are, and when things will be done. So it’s natural for me to “drag out” information from Håkan :p Håkan is also from the northern part of Sweden, so it’s in his genes to not tell me everything :p

Anyway I (and other people  on the team) got some good info from Håkan yesterday, so now everything is crystal clear … I think :p

As we say in Sweden -”communication is A and O” (means communication is everything).

Since I (Jens) moved to Gran Canarias for two week I take it easy and only work 6-8 hour a day, 5 days a week (at home normally 10-16 hours daily)

Here’s my nice day:
07.00-09.30 Getting up and work
09.30-10.00 Breakfast at with my sister
10.00-15.00 stay at the beach or the pool with my sister
15.00-18.00 work outside on the balcony (when my sister’s working)
18.00-18.30 dinner
18.30-21.00 work
21.00-22.00 Watch my sister at her music show
22.00 —- party, go to a bar, go in the city, eat, watch a movie

We should move Databox Game down here and I think I will address this at next meeting. No more snow, rain, cold, dark Sweden, just sun, heat, sea, cheep beer and girls in bikinis every day.

* I would guess all happy sweet games are made in places where it’s like this and all dark games are made in countries like Sweden, Finland and so on. But who wants to make sweet and happy games anyway :p ?

Left to right: Jona, Jakob, Tekei, Dwarf, Nixi

Yepp, we work mostly in pairs. This mainly because of two things:
You can get good feedback right away and if someone should be sick or can’t do his job, the other person can jump right in and continue where he left off. When programmers do this it’s called “extreme programming”, so it’s kind of like this we work: Håkan/Jens (me), Dwarf/Niki, Baba/Jakob, Jona/Tekie. So no lead just couples :p