A little over 3 years ago Gas Powered Games took a chance on me and welcomed me to the GPG family. No other company would give me the time of day. Over the past 3 years GPG continued to take chances; first by having me take over the Supreme Commander 2 AI and again by allowing me to create the AI system for their current project from scratch. There aren't many companies that would give that level of responsibility to such a junior engineer.
However, all good things must come to and end.Yesterday I gave notice that as of November 1st I would cease to be an employee at Gas Powered Games. In three weeks I will no longer be working for the employer I spent 2 1/2 years of my life hounding for a job. I wish all the best for GPG and all of its employees in all of their future endeavors and I am very thankful for the opportunities I was given to grow as an engineer.
November 1st starts a new chapter in my career as I join the ranks of Uber Entertainment. I am very excited to have the opportunity to work an such an epic project as Planetary Annihilation. With the amount of talent located in Uber's office this project has huge potential.
I will continue to update my blog as development progresses on Planetary Annihilation, so keep checking back as we go for awesome!

15 comments:
Best of luck with the change over :)
I'm looking forward to Planetary Annihilation (I'm a backer :) ), so good to know you'll be adding AI input in there!
It's just a shame that you won't be contributing further to the AI in GPGs next game (which I'm hoping is Sup Com 3!), but one projects gain is anothers loss I guess.
Oh my god, yes! Congrats on the switch! It must be a wonderful feeling to be able to work for two great companies.
Will you be doing AI for Planetary Annihilation?
Yes, I will be doing the AI for PA.
you are at uber!?!?!? SWEET!
i love GPG, but have been hoping ever so much to see you join UBER to work on their AI!
This is great news Sorian, all the best on the new job!
I hope that PA will be SC3, with you on board i know that it will be a great game.
Cross-posted your good news to Reddit!
http://www.reddit.com/r/planetaryannihilation/
That's absolutely awesome! Go ahead and join the #planetaryannihilation irc on irc.esper.net :) All of us are waiting to give a big high-five to you :D
At least we'll have great AI in PA now. I hear they guys there could barely make something walk in a straight line, so you must be a massive help for them ;)
This is Uber Awesome news Sorian :)
Shooting for awesome just got realistic with this news.
Wow, this is even better than I hoped...
Good luck to you and Uber!
I guess it does makes a difference what games you are working on, welcome back to the RTS genre...cannot wait to see your ideas for the AI...
Great to hear dude. GPG have lost their way a bit in the last two years whereas Uber are going amazing places.
I suggested that Uber add a "Recruit Sorian" stretch goal. Glad to see they already knew that having you on board just made damn good sense.
This is truly great news!
Yay! Sorian AI from the start :-)
Looking forward to battles against it.
Why did GPG fire you? I don't mean to be insensitive, but I find it weird that they will fire a talented AI producer like you. Company politics, perhaps? Or the company is losing money and needs to downsize its staff?
GPG didn't fire me, I left to join Uber.
Oh, sorry. My bad for misunderstanding. Well, good luck to you and your new career!
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