Ninjabear

Those who know me know I have a lot of people I look up to. One of these guys is Tiago Sousa, aka Ninjabear. In a country with only a few people making games and even fewer in big companies outside Portugal this guy was handpicked by a team that was being formed in Germany! They wanted the best of each craft and they saw a demo he developed, Illuminatu. Impressed, they contacted him and he went to Crytek.

Sometime later in 2004 Farcry was released, one of the games with the best timing to reach the market I can recall. It came out right before those year's heavyweight FPSs, Half-Life 2 and Doom and was the first "next-gen" FPS at the time.

Now Crysis is out and it's probably the best looking game out there at the moment. It looks so good the four main guys who did the effects were nominated for this year's VES awards. Guess who was on that list? You're right.

Well the results came out yesterday and Halo 3 (not Crysis) won.

For me Tiago was the great winner of the night. It's rare for a portuguese guy to be working in games and I can't recall the last time one of "us" was nominated for an award in this field. He is setting an awesome example for all of us and he's proof people whould be doing what they like to do in order to achieve better results.