Meet the Devs: Kirk Tome (2015.05.26)

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   dude that's like my favorite shirt it's ever been worn and this like weird studio thing thank you it's like the best color ever and like these guys are idiots like your shoes are great but the shirt is where it's at everybody welcome eat the dead I'm James view this is Kirk tomei Kirk are you doing terrific thanks for coming on so when we just get right into it how did you get started in 2 star citizen actually I had heard about the Kickstarter but really didn't follow the development cycle of a star citizen until I found out that my former

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   colleague and friend Kay Letourneau was working here asked him about the possibility of joining the studio and that's kind of how everything started you're the first person through the world to call calyx a friend by the way oh that's pretty chipper take that galax so how bad you get started the gaming industry um I I've been making games for over 22 years Wow actually funny story-- prior chiz starting at my first game company which was interplay I was selling games at a company called a cad software one of the games we sold was dark matter we sold a lot of copies this duck commander um and then finding out that one of the games that interplay made out of this world it was difficult

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   to finish I actually called up there BBS this is how long ago this was and found hints to finish the game on interplays BBS at the same time there was an ad for joining the studio as a customer service representative did that went through a kind of standard path for designers which is going through QA head of QA and then beginning design yeah that was in 1993 1993 yep Wow I was five years old you were on top of the world that is great to hear so what about star citizen interest you the most what's really awesome the star citizen is that we were able to make for the community a world in which out of nothing we create this

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   experience that is exciting enough for people to want to log into every day I mean we're based on your feedback we're able to make a virtual world in which I would be excited to join and then make my friends have encounters and we're making we're creating work you know right now we're small and but we're expanding and making it larger and larger and eventually it'll be something that you can just jump into an experience as almost like a secondary life so is that what you want to start servicing to be absolutely want starts isn't me this expansive University you want to be a part of I want it to be a experience in which it you can experience in which you can make

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   it euro so you know as as common as as count as communist cars are now I love for you to know what it's like to own several spaceships in your space home eating your space friends having space parties you know this is great it's it's really a way to give the players an experience that they've only imagined before but now can experience for real I want space friends this transcript from how do I get space I had so ask you some rapid-fire questions right mm-hmm question one favorite movie up how to say this weird but akira matter soon

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   yeah favorite video game a street fighter which 13 second strike what sorry that's time i love pairing yeah but third strikes way better a little too fast remember good honesty fast as editing Sofia it's like this means second starting third strike is just so minimal to me like it is but the speed is kind of kind of a biggie I mean three is really good too it is really a man who's your main um actually I just like him count yeah Hugo bro no interesting yeah and if there's old school I'd be Zangief yeah you guys just once you get used to him he's really he's actually way quicker than you think he would yeah because his animations her are there I'm he's really lanky but the admissions are really fast now keep all

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   that info and last question what's your favorite stick leave that in to leave all is in this is good everyone watch this favorite ship in star citizen my friendship is probably Super Hornet finally it's kind of opie really yeah it's very maneuverable it's really tough it has great armament second favorite ships probably gladiator only because I took it from its kind of baby steps to fight ready and working on that as my first ship from start to finish is an experience that I'll never forget nice well thanks for joining us again thank you I'm James P you this is Kirk tomei he's a dev and you know how