Interzone Craziness

~2 months ago I had to suspend my position at Interzone Games due to unpaid superannuation and shaky payroll. This week it all came crumbling down…

A growing collection of quotes and links about Interzone Games, Big Collision Games, Michael Turner, Marty Brickey and Greg Chadwell.

The summary as I understand it:

This week, Michael Turner from the US office, came to Australia to take the intellectual property for the game. The game would then be finished by another company in the US.

This is while the company has around $1.6 million of Australian debt which includes unpaid Australian business tax, unpaid payroll tax, unpaid employee wages and entitlements and unpaid employee superannuation.

When Mike was met with questions as to how these debts will be resolved, he left the premises. He then came back that night after dark and changed the locks of the building. He barred employees from their workplace (personal belongings still inside).

This was met with peaceful protest and many questions that went unanswered. Then the media were contacted and the police were called by both parties, etc etc.

Most notable was the climax yesterday where employees were ordered off their own workplace by a spokesperson of the Department of Commerce?!

The link above has many links to news reports please check em out if only to bump up exposure
It was quite surreal seeing it laid out on the ABC News last night. :/

pumpkincrumble.com

Chrystal and I are becoming ovo-lacto-pescatarians (still eat eggs, dairy and seafood) for at least 6 months as a kind of experiment on the viability of doing it longer term.

This is mostly for sustainability reasons (Many animals cost like 8 times their weight in crops, ie if we ate the crops instead we could feed 8 times as many people.) with some humanitarian reasons thrown in (usually after watching a documentary or reading about it

Anyway we’ve set up a blog called Pumpkin Crumble where we’ll post thoughts and photos of stuff we’ve cooked or ordered at restaurants etc. It’s a little bit more interesting and tricky to come up with tasty meals when all the best ingredients are off limits so it should be funtimes ><;

Wish us luck and checkout the blog if you feel like it!