No snappy headline today.
February 17th, 2006
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.
You don’t think he’ll do “MMORPG Moons for Dummies” as an expansion pack?
I don’t know…. “MMORPG PvP for Dummies” or maybe “MMORPG Ranting for Dummies” could do equally well for him!
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 =)
Epic Games is also SW of his location I believe -_o
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.
*Pssst* Can you sell me some real-estate in your new game for cheap? We will split profits.
Good luck Lum.
Good luck in all you do, take care of the fam! Thanks for the book signing again… remember the ebay queen! Value++ !
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????
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.
How many times has somebody at the office asked if they can ,”Have your stuff?”
Great, Lum designes game, “taxi to victory” becomes feature.
Good luck down there. You continue to give hope to us database code monkeys.
Best of luck, Scott.
/gratz
Good luck on the new endeavor.
From the looks of it, I’d say Lum sold out for a bag of bagels. Moving up in the world!
-Rip
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.
Good show!
I hope it’s Texas or ‘zona, if it is SoCal whatever raise they gave you won’t be enough!
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.
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. =]
A Austin-based MMORPG developer?
OMG Lum works on Shadowbane 2!
Sachant, tell us about it! =D
No, no… he’s working on UO 2.
Good luck wherever! Enjoy design; it’s better than… well, just about any other job I can imagine.
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.
Maybe he’s an employee of EA :/
Apache you do not speak that name in the hallowed halls of Lum.
Good luck to you sir, you will be missed at the office.
Yes, please finish UO2.
http://merkwurdigliebe.homestead.com/files/UO2.JPG
I can neither confirm nor deny blah blah blah (that’s for you alex.
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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.
Would be great, though, Sachant…
The SB2 thing, not learning how to merge
We’ll miss you!! Good luck out there and try to avoid that big ball o’ light called the sun.. Evil sun!!!!
Can’t blame you. The DC area doesn’t have much going for it, IMO.
Great. Now my thane will never get fixed……
Seriously though, congrats.
Wow, they really are serious about radar bannings….
I jest. Good luck here in Austin, and SW oughta be a hoot with your input.
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.
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!
Admit it, Tess. You’re stalking him.
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.
maybe this: http://www.cheyenneme.com
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.
We’ll miss you, Scott! Good luck in your new endeavor, and enjoy your new surroundings!
You better tell us what game you’re working on, so we can preorder it. :p
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.
i heard Lum’s working on WW2 Online now
=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.
Wait hes going to CRS (cornered rat software?) hrmm ill have to bug toto on aim to get some details…
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
Lum’s leaving? Waitaminute, I just recovered from the firestorm that ensued when he was hired!
Good Times.
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
Good luck and I “think” I hope it is on the same project that I am on.