Meet the Devs: Dennis Daniel (2015.03.24)

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   Hi, I'm Dennis Daniel. I'm the IT manager here in Santa Monica Cloud Imperium Games. I heard about Star Citizen when they were doing their first Kickstarter back uh I think uh late 2012. I think I'm most excited about the the story in Squadron 42, but I'm a huge explorer, so I'm very excited about jumping into the PU and trying to find new places and new races and new people to fight. I would say my favorite food in all the world has to be sushi. Favorite music

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   band? That's kind of tough. It's a actually a local band uh up in Ventura, California called Durango 95. That's kind of tough. Okay. I would say probably one of my my favorite movies is definitely Star Wars. I mean, that pretty much sent the genre, but uh I definitely also love the noir feeling of the original Bladeunner with uh you know, just had a very pulp feeling with a lot of uh you know, kind of dark future and it was very visceral. So, I definitely love that. Let's see. Well, my probably the game I play the most I love is probably the Home World series. just the the

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   story and being sucked into their universe. It was just um so intense and great storytelling. I loved it. Of course, when I was really young, um I got to play Wing Commander when it first came out. A friend of mine told me about the game, but I didn't believe him it was even possible back in those days. And I came over to his house and he showed me the game. and I felt bad for him because I ignored them for the next 12 hours and pretty much just played the game straight through until I finished it. So, those are two of my favorites. One of my favorite uh hobbies or used to be don't have a lot of time to do it would be scuba diving. Um spent about a year in the Philippines uh learning how to deep dive and uh do all

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   kinds of exploring and stuff like that. So then my other hobby would be probably traveling. Um, pretty much most of my life I did a lot of extensive world traveling. Spent uh a year traveling Europe and Asia and then a couple years later I did another trip back to Asia. Favorite ship has to be the original Constellation. Um, when I first saw the constellation come out for Star Citizen, I was just like blown away what I could do to see a game finally have, you know, the level of fidelity that I wanted and multi cruise ships where all my friends can jump in there at the same time and go exploring or, you know, you know, just be together as a whole. I think that's what's most exciting about, you know, that particular ship and game. Keep the faith being it here in

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   Santa Monica. I know how much time that these guys put into it. All facets from development to uh ship art, even to the, you know, video production team. I see people here, they're just working so many hours a day to try to make this dream come true. And, you know, even seeing Chris Roberts putting such an extensive amount of time. I mean, everybody is not just working on the game because it's a job. They're here because they're living it. And they want all of you to experience the same things that they want to experience as well.