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No snappy headline today.


As of this afternoon, I’m no longer an employee of Mythic Entertainment.

The parting was on good terms on both our sides… and driven more than anything else by my family and I’s simply wanting to return to the Southwest.

The fact that I’m moving on to a really fantastic opportunity (which I’m not sure I can talk about yet) also doesn’t hurt. :)

At any rate, as you can well imagine, things are REALLY HECTIC for me right now. More later.

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  1. #1 by Gar on February 19th, 2006

    You don’t think he’ll do “MMORPG Moons for Dummies” as an expansion pack?

  2. #2 by Heartless_ on February 19th, 2006

    I don’t know…. “MMORPG PvP for Dummies” or maybe “MMORPG Ranting for Dummies” could do equally well for him!

  3. #3 by Rags on February 19th, 2006

    Lum! Holy heck in a hand cart! I go away for a week and everything goes topsy turvy.

    I wish you luck in your future endeavors.

    Southwest… that’s so many places, Austin being the leading favorite, but Tucson, Phoenix, and LA/San Diego as other opportunities. If you land in Arizona, let me know. I still owe ya a beer from Vegas =)

  4. #4 by Heartless_ on February 19th, 2006

    Epic Games is also SW of his location I believe -_o

  5. #5 by Xanthippe on February 19th, 2006

    I suspect the weather will be nicer than DC, although whether you actually ever go outside is another question. (But if you want to, you _can_. Anytime. And that’s the important thing!)

    Good luck with the change! I hope this does not mean that you’re going to be muzzling yourself.

  6. #6 by GM Darwin on February 19th, 2006

    *Pssst* Can you sell me some real-estate in your new game for cheap? We will split profits.

  7. #7 by styles on February 20th, 2006

    Good luck Lum.

  8. #8 by Ashay with Chilibreath on February 20th, 2006

    Good luck in all you do, take care of the fam! Thanks for the book signing again… remember the ebay queen! Value++ !

  9. #9 by Gamergod on February 20th, 2006

    If I had a guess which I don’t, and insider info which I don’t I’d have to say Stargate gets a new Dev????

  10. #10 by D-0ne on February 20th, 2006

    Grats Lum, I think… Remember, some of us believe Raph has MMOG design all wrong. Worlds, not rules, no theories, just dynamics and chaos. Just saying.

    Good luck, that’s for sure. All the best to you and yours and one tip from the experience barn.

    Moving is Hell. Anything you care about move it yourself. Anything you can sell, throw away or give away before the move, please for your, sake do.

  11. #11 by Dren on February 20th, 2006

    How many times has somebody at the office asked if they can ,”Have your stuff?”

  12. #12 by Kaje on February 20th, 2006

    Great, Lum designes game, “taxi to victory” becomes feature. ;)

    Good luck down there. You continue to give hope to us database code monkeys.

  13. #13 by scrappinak on February 20th, 2006

    Best of luck, Scott.

  14. #14 by naum on February 20th, 2006

    /gratz

    Good luck on the new endeavor.

  15. #15 by Riprend on February 20th, 2006

    From the looks of it, I’d say Lum sold out for a bag of bagels. Moving up in the world!

    -Rip

  16. #16 by funtax on February 20th, 2006

    I KNEW I should’ve had him autograph my copy of the Dummies book a couple weeks back.

    *sigh*

    Good luck out there, Scott. You’ll be missed at Mythic.

  17. #17 by Grimwell on February 20th, 2006

    Good show!

    I hope it’s Texas or ‘zona, if it is SoCal whatever raise they gave you won’t be enough!

  18. #18 by ReptileHouse on February 20th, 2006

    Congratulations on your newfound opportunity, Lum. Glad to see you getting the opportunity to do new and exciting things.

    Condolances to all the other great folks at Mythic for your loss. :)

  19. #19 by =j on February 20th, 2006

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_Base

    Sounds SW:G-ish to me. Is Lum going to the dark side? Or perhaps he will bring balance to the force?

    I think a nerf bat would have been a good going-away present. =]

  20. #20 by alex on February 20th, 2006

    A Austin-based MMORPG developer?

    OMG Lum works on Shadowbane 2!

    Sachant, tell us about it! =D

  21. #21 by Baroo on February 20th, 2006

    No, no… he’s working on UO 2.

  22. #22 by isildur on February 20th, 2006

    Good luck wherever! Enjoy design; it’s better than… well, just about any other job I can imagine.

  23. #23 by Boanerges on February 20th, 2006

    I have a guess totally off the charts but wholly plausable as well.

    SOE Austin (the fine folks who brought you NGE SWG) are supposed to be working on a DC comics version of CoH. If correct it would mean Scott and Raph would be working for the same boss…

    Congrats on wherever your journey takes you.

  24. #24 by Apache on February 20th, 2006

    Maybe he’s an employee of EA :/

  25. #25 by Heartless_ on February 20th, 2006

    Apache you do not speak that name in the hallowed halls of Lum.

  26. #26 by Eso on February 21st, 2006

    Good luck to you sir, you will be missed at the office.

  27. #27 by Merkwurdigliebe on February 21st, 2006

  28. #28 by Sachant on February 21st, 2006

    I can neither confirm nor deny blah blah blah (that’s for you alex. ;) )

    Phoenix/Arizona is hardly in the middle of nowhere. It’s LA part II. Everytime I go back there to visit my familly they’ve got some other new super shopping center built and 2x the cars on the roads. If only they’d learn how to MERGE.

  29. #29 by Maxzius on February 21st, 2006

    Would be great, though, Sachant…

    The SB2 thing, not learning how to merge ;)

  30. #30 by Ren the TechieChick on February 21st, 2006

    We’ll miss you!! Good luck out there and try to avoid that big ball o’ light called the sun.. Evil sun!!!!

  31. #31 by Brinstar on February 21st, 2006

    Can’t blame you. The DC area doesn’t have much going for it, IMO.

  32. #32 by Furiously on February 21st, 2006

    Great. Now my thane will never get fixed……

    Seriously though, congrats.

  33. #33 by Phreeze Phrame on February 21st, 2006

    Wow, they really are serious about radar bannings….

    I jest. Good luck here in Austin, and SW oughta be a hoot with your input.

  34. #34 by Hank on February 22nd, 2006

    WHEN DOES THE OPEN BETA START? I wont be in there for the phat lewt, nope just want the game to be well tested.

    Gratz and good luck.

  35. #35 by Tess on February 22nd, 2006

    Awww, well, I’ll be sure to randomly bump into you someplace, no matter where you go, since I think of all the times I randomly bumped into you, only one of them was anywhere within a hundred miles of Virginia. :)

    Best of luck at your new job! Cheers!

  36. #36 by =j on February 22nd, 2006

    Admit it, Tess. You’re stalking him.

  37. #37 by Landslide on February 22nd, 2006

    Lum – I bet dollars to donuts that if you visited two cities in the next week, and reported from both locations on which cardinal direction your new job could be found in, people would have the building triangulated to the nearest Starbucks.

    Spooky :)

    Now, go make a difference.

  38. #38 by brad on February 22nd, 2006

  39. #39 by bluesalt on February 22nd, 2006

    Tabula Rasa?

    The alignment of Richard Garriot and Lum the Mad is one sign of the apocalypse.

    In my “End of reality” chapter of my MMO based holy book that is.

  40. #40 by YellowAjah on February 23rd, 2006

    We’ll miss you, Scott! Good luck in your new endeavor, and enjoy your new surroundings!

  41. #41 by Stara on February 24th, 2006

    You better tell us what game you’re working on, so we can preorder it. :p

  42. #42 by Nicademus on February 25th, 2006

    You people know nothing. He’s not working on UO2, he’s coming back to UO to do Raph one better! Prepare for UO ol skool Rennaissance of the Newest Age! FOA Leader will be brought to justice once and for all.

  43. #43 by Slyde on February 25th, 2006

    i heard Lum’s working on WW2 Online now :)

  44. #44 by Tess on February 26th, 2006

    =j said:
    “Admit it, Tess. You\’e2\’80\’99re stalking him.”

    I’m sure he’ll be in Australia ANY DAY NOW. And when he is, I’LL BE READY.

  45. #45 by Ryan "Skraeling/Merlin" on February 28th, 2006

    Wait hes going to CRS (cornered rat software?) hrmm ill have to bug toto on aim to get some details…

  46. #46 by EmpSauce on February 28th, 2006

    QQ

    You forgot to say goodbye on the pendy boards :(

    Good luck friend. If you end up in Phoenix, be prepared for some wicked heat.

    “Toastyyy” ~Ala Mortal Kombat

  47. #47 by poena.dare on March 6th, 2006

    Lum’s leaving? Waitaminute, I just recovered from the firestorm that ensued when he was hired!

    Good Times.

  48. #48 by Lilathe on March 10th, 2006

    Oh shizzle and damn…. you might be working with me soon then. I have always loved your writing style and your strange, weird, unusual slant on things. But you have no idea how much all the techies yell at me :P

    Good luck and I “think” I hope it is on the same project that I am on.

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