The One About Part Time Jobs & Internships @ IAHGames

Rushing to finish writing my Granado Espada article for Playworks magazine so this will be a realllll quick update since I'm desperate for time.

There are some part time and internship positions available at IAHGames. Working hours are weekdays from 9am~6pm. These are the positions available:

1) QA Tester (Granado Espada)
2) Customer Service

If you are interested in any of the positions, please send an email to community@ge.iahgames.com stating the following:

For those seeking internships, please state how long your internship term will be and attach your resume of school results, part time jobs you have taken before and extra curriculum activities that you have undertaken in your school.

Subject Title: Internship - [Position Interested: QA or Customer Service or both]

Please also send in your answers to the following questions:

1. Why did you apply for this position?
2. Tell us about a challenging situation you have faced before and how you dealt with it.
3. What do you think is important for an online gaming company to succeed?
4. What are your expectations towards working in IAHGames in this position?
5. If you were any item in Granado Espada, what would it be and why?
Any other comments you may have?

For those seeking part time positions, please send in your resume with the following:

Subject Title: Part Time Position - [Position Interested: QA or Customer Service or both]

Please also send in your answers to the following questions:

1. Why did you apply for this position?
2. Tell us about a challenging situation you have faced before and how you dealt with it.
3. What do you think is important for an online gaming company to succeed?
4. What are your expectations towards working in IAHGames in this position?
5. If you were any item in Granado Espada, what would it be and why?
Any other comments you may have?

We regret that only shortlisted applicants will be notified to come down for an interview. We are looking to fill these positions quickly, so for those interested, please apply asap!

The One About The Tragic Treasure Hunter

Once upon a time, when everyone was high on Vietnamese G7 coffee...

"Hey guys, Mr Pocket is asking us what name we want to give the NPC for the lottery event during V3.4 launch," Kaioujin says.

"Singapore Pools? Casino Royale?" MeepokTah casually suggests.

"Hmmm... it's an NPC, not a place, so it has to be more of a person's name," Kaioujin says.

Contemplative silence until MeepokTah bangs his table in a 'Eureka!' moment.

"I KNOW! I KNOW!!!" he exclaims.

All eyes turn to him in anticipation.

"We'll call him... TIKAM MAN!" he proclaims proudly.

"HAHHAH! Ya! We should name him that!" the rest of the team responds enthusiastically.

*Facepalm*

"TIKAM MAN!? Eeeeew!!! I violently object! That's so not classy at all! Can we have something slightly more sophisticated?" I groan.

"Hmm... true... I have an idea!" Kaioujin exclaims.

Finally, a voice of reason.

"Yes, bro?" I grin, happy that Kaioujin is on my side.

"We'll call him Hron! Hrin's evil cousin!"

By now, the rest of the team is rolling in laughter as I growl at Kaioujin.

"So... it's settled then! Hron, the Tikam Man!" MeepokTah concludes.

"Eh guys, come on. It's bad enough that he is the security guard for my Treasure Mission. Do you really have to subject him to further torture with such an awful name?!" I protested. Just the sound of that name gave me instant goosebumps. I was starting to have serious regrets about raising objections. Maybe Hron's fate might have been different. He could have had a cooler name, like Willy Wonka or Darth Vedar.

Hrin's Faithful Security Guard

No one is listening to me now, being deeply engrossed in loudly fantasizing about some random ludicrous background story about Hron the Tikam Man being some long lost cousin of mine and how we nearly romanced until *gasp* we discovered we were cousins!

Gosh, they really should keep their day jobs...

So there you have it, the tragic tale of Hron's origins.

For those of you who do not know what 'tikam' means, it means 'Random Pick' in Malay language. The term 'Satu' means One and 'Dua' means Two. The full article should be up on the website soon, after Kaioujin finishes up his soap opera script of Hron The Tikam Man. But in the meantime, enjoy some screenshots of the event:

Privileged Treasure Hunter...


...gets downgraded to Hron the Tikam Man!

The One About V3.4 The Masquerade Trailer

One day more to the launch of V3.4 The Masquerade!

Hopefully all goes well or else Meepoktah, Kaioujin and me might have to end up missing the Video Games Live concert tomorrow... (Noooooooooooooo!!!)

Just uploaded the trailer, so enjoy!

The One About V3.4 The Masquerade Launch Date

Just a quick update!

V3.4 The Masquerade expansion has been postponed by one day, to Friday instead. Maintenance will also be shifted back by 1 day to this Friday, 19 June 2009 instead.

Gosh I should start using Twitter for such short updates instead...

The One About 'From IMC to You' Episode 1

First of, here's wishing Desanggria's Granado Espada Blog a Happy 2 Year Anniversary! Thanks for being so passionate about GE and for writing so many interesting blog entries. :)

We've been sending some of your feedback and suggestions gathered from the feedback forum and tickets about Granado Espada to IMC regularly. Our faithful liaison over at IMC is a really nice and humorous guy - someone whom we endearingly call Mr. Pocket. He very kindly responded to some of these feedback. I felt that his insights were really valuable and would like to share with you guys some of their responses.

Disclaimer: The following is tentative and is accurate at this point in time. Thus, please do not take this as the gospel truth that will never change over time or due to unforseen circumstances.

Suggestion: A cash shop item to reset stance skill points.

This is already developed. It will be added in V3.5.

Suggestion: Allow rearrangement of characters in Barracks.

This item is one of the 'most wanted' stuff across all the various GE versions. However, since it isn't an extremely critical factor that affects game play itself, this development has been postponed till a later time. Someday this patch will be applied!

Suggestion: A small window to see characters' equipped items in Barracks.

Yes, we're making this feature.

Suggestion: Higher spawn rate of monsters for Bahamas Ancient Territory.

The spawn rate is dependent on the number of players in that map. Currently, the spawn rate per player is already high. Anyway, in V3.5 you’ll have a brand new upper-grade Ancient Territory called "Chaos Requiem of the Heavens". There are really, really lots of monsters there, and even huge EXP card rewards from the pioneer monument! You'll like it!

Suggestion: Players want to allow their skill bar to be made customizable so that they can set the skills they want and also have different items to use.

This is extremely hard to program because of the complex nature of the GE system. But we will try to make it, so someday it will be applied.

Suggestion: The Key of Truth-A key that mystically fits on all locks,doors and boxes.

There’s really lots of stuff that must be “unlocked”. We can’t make that type of MacGyver Key.

(ROFL!!! I LMAO when I read that MacGyver part. Mr Pocket and his wicked sense of humor!)

Suggestion: A server-time clock

I’ll discuss about them with the rest of the IMC staff and let you know if there will be any further developments on this.

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That's all for now. If you would like to make further suggestions, you may do so at this thread.

Drop me a comment and let me know if you guys enjoy this type of blog entry and I'll continue this as a permanent fixture as a 'From IMC to You' type of blog series.

The One About Hellena's Tarot Deck

We're just one week away from V3.4 The Masquerade launch! So far, testing has been going pretty smoothly, thanks to our efficient QA Shinobi.

We'll be having a mini teaser game starting Monday called Hellena's Tarot Deck. For 4 consecutive days, there will be a different set of tarot cards revealed daily with alphabets hidden inside. You will then need to unravel the code word at the end and SMS to a specific number to receive an exclusive pair of unreleased wings.

Here's a sneak peek at the teaser:

The website will be re-skinned as well to have a whole masquerade/circus feel to it. Check it out:

And of course, here's the lovely poster!

Someone was asking me about Master Scrolls release in V3.4? Tentatively, it's part of the item release plan. We are planning to tie it in with some type of event, however, this will depend on the approval and feedback from IMC before we can proceed. That's all for now! Drop me a comment if you guys have any questions in regards to V3.4 and I'll pick a few to answer in my next blog entry.

Meanwhile, we are looking for alpha testers for a web based IAHGames virtual world which is currently in development. It's a very closed door event since it is still in its very raw stages and we would need constructive feedback for the further development of web platform. More details available here!

The One About MeePokTah's Auction

MeePokTah's auction is coming up in 4 days' time! If you haven't already done so, do pre-register by emailing gse@iahgames.com

I'm reallyyyyy looking forward to this auction because MeePokTah himself will be auctioning off his valued 'GE treasures' collected from all over the region:

Some of his precioussss items include... Granado Espada Korean Novel

Super rare Korean Royalist VS Republican silver foil poster! There is also another poster that is yet another gem - a concept art poster which I don't have the photo of.

Hmm... what else? Oh, a Granado Espada water bottle from Philippines:

Then of course, the super limited edition 2009 GE diary with stickers:

And since MeePokTah is the King of All Things Auspicious, he absolutely insisted we auction off something auspicious. And so, what better item than our lil' Fortune Cat?

Meow?

I've gotten very fond of the slideshow function available in Flickr, so well, here's some of the other items available during the auction:



There's also one or two little surprises in the auction as well, but I'm not going to ruin the fun by revealing them here! ;)

More details about the auction available here.

The One About V3.4 Logo

V3.4 The Masquerade logo is ready! Here's a sneak peek:

Since it's the masquerade, why isn't there a mask?

The earlier version did include a mask, but since the logo would be too small to notice the mask, the creative team decided not to crowd the logo too much. So the mask will still around, but placed at the subtext of 'Deception takes center stage' instead. More updates coming soon!