Happy New Year!   Let's hope 2012 is better than 2011 was!!  I got sick during my one week off, but I'm almost over it.  It's been amost a year now I've been working at Full Sail, and I'm still enjoying it.  I'm getting tired of moving from apartment to apartment, but hopefully I'll be able to settle soon.  I haven't had much time to work on my Pantheon project, but I'd like to post some updates soon.  
 
Last month was crazy for the teams.  The schedule was messy because of the Holiday vacation.  They seem to be ready for their Beta month of production.  I hope their two weeks of vacation didn't rob them of their motivation.  I'm very excited about the Pirates game.  I hope they don't have too many balancing issues.  The stealth game is more worrisome.  They have gameplay issues that need to be fixed already.  We have some plans in place, but traditional solutions are not good enough for this group.  They are very persistent in coming up with more creative solutions.  
 
I'm very excited for the Hobbit movie coming out next year.  I know I won't get to see Smaug until the second movie.  I'm very happy Peter Jackson is directing.  Hopefully, he will be able to erase the memory of the old cartoon version and replace it with a movie superior to imagination.