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When I started planning this idea, I invited the team along to give me feedback and to weigh in with their thoughts on this because it\u2019s been a very long time that we celebrated May, and this is a tradition I most certainly wanted to bring back to life. Not every day do you get to go through 10 years of hardship and joy and simply just sweep it under the rug.<\/p>\n
They loved the idea! So for weeks we\u2019ve been gathering info and trying to think what hasn\u2019t been said before – everything that doesn\u2019t go through a press kit, or a review or an interview; sharing the stories just as they are, no PR talk, no making things pretty – with the ugly and the beautiful of all of it.<\/p>\n
Luckily through the process I got former and current talent that I\u2019ve had the pleasure to meet through my own business career to help me go through the whole plan and form ideas on how to structure the message we truly wanted to communicate. I had to dig into Cesar\u2019s and Katie\u2019s heads to remember and collect all these memories, but my former business coworkers brought an even much more unique perspective to the whole idea – let the community tell you what they think, too. \u00a0So having said that, I want to give the utmost thanks and love to Robert Allen<\/strong>, H. Hawke<\/strong> and Francis Leroux<\/strong> for all their patience and wisdom.<\/p>\n We do have a lot of memories and things to say, but so do the people that year after year are on the receiving end of things. We have asked some of our new followers and some of the old ones, but considering this is TSL week, I am going to highlight a few of the folks that have been with us since early 2004 and unbelievably enough, they are still around with love and kindness to celebrate the good, and also the very first ones to tell us when it\u2019s not good.<\/p>\n First, we\u2019ve got Catherine Tyson DaCosta<\/strong>. She has been part of the community since 2003! \u00a0As a Speech Language specialist she has got a strong passion for helping people and she has shared so many years with us as part of the TSL<\/em> crowd. She even found the love of her life, Erik DaCosta<\/strong>, on our forums back in the day! They will forever be the happiest most loving story to ever come out from TSL<\/em> days. Not only have they been happily married for what almost feels like forever now, they have got the most beautiful little one called Connor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n According to Catherine, our strong point is determination, and our weakest point organization. While working with us she survived the madness of what truly is the heavy workload of what we do. I must say I agree, sometimes things get chaotic during heavy production. Luckily we have got the talent of folks such as Gavin Greene<\/strong> and Joseph Gagnepain<\/strong> as production assistants that help organize the madness. And I\u2019m not going to lie, it still gets crazy sometimes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Then we have got Kelsey Gardner<\/strong>, who has been the forum princess ever since 2004. Amazingly enough, this lovely young lady started as one of the sweetest members and grew up to be almost as talented as she is gorgeous. She hopes to pursue a career in video gaming as soon a she\u2019s done studying Game Design; among the many things she\u2019s talented about she\u2019s mastered some pretty amazing programming kung-fu skills.<\/p>\n Kelsey states that Phoenix\u2019s good feature is the creativity. She enjoyed seeing the team grow with Cognition. She says our worst is \u201cEpisode 5 of TSL hasn\u2019t come out yet. I love you, but come on.\u201d<\/strong> And you all probably thought I was going to edit these things, well no – I told you we can trust our people, they are never afraid to tell us when we do wrong! Don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s coming.<\/em><\/p>\n The forum rocket scientist, there isn\u2019t anything that Brandon Wiles<\/strong> doesn\u2019t know. With a PhD in the works, our Computational Astrophysics guru has been our living encyclopedia since 2006. Polyglot extraordinaire, including a master in lolcat speak. I would dare to say he\u2019s better than Google<\/em>, and hands down one of the most brilliant minds I have ever met.<\/p>\n For Brandon, he thinks Phoenix highlight must be the teamwork. And now for the bad, he believes that \u201clack of polish in some games\u201d<\/strong> may be detrimental to the quality of the things we do. And he\u2019s not even entirely talking about the technical aspects, but instead little details that could prevent people from fully immersing in the game. Which is true, we do our best to pick up the pieces and build up for launch but \u2013 I guess practice makes perfect. We patch up as much as we can, but we\u2019re consciously trying to accommodate a tighter production revision for before launch.<\/em><\/p>\n Sharing only a few for now – look forward to next week for more. We did gather a few to ask them some questions, to let us know what they thought of us, what they liked, what they think we should do better \u2013 and luckily, we found SO many of you open to help and share. I must say, thank you. Also, if you were on the receiving end of this do expect your own cameo in our official blog, doodle and all.<\/p>\n If you would like to connect with us, or just share what your thoughts for any of our games, please do send us your feedback to media@postudios.com.<\/strong>\u00a0We love to hear feedback from all of you.<\/p>\n #PhoenixPeople<\/a><\/p>\n Community Voice – May 7 Our community has been around before Phoenix even had a name. 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\nSay Mistage<\/strong><\/a>
\nSocial Media Director
\nPhoenix Online Studios<\/p>\n
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\nCommunity Voice – May 14<\/a>
\nCommunity Voice – May 21<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"