Sometimes in life, its good to reflect back on what has happened over the year – and what better time to reflect then your first year’s anniversary. Yes, exactly one year ago on the 2/2/08 Cheese Media was officially launched by two delicious developers who envisioned the year only getting better. How wrong we were. But why hide your mistakes when you can look upon them and laugh. Not all of these moments have happened in this past year as many of them have happened before Cheese Media was alive in the days of the old Cheese Games. But who cares, the fact that they’re rememberable seems to justify their absurdness.

Let’s get started.

5. Getting a Fan Email

You have no idea how happy Pete and myself were when we got our first fan email about Cheese Media. It was not long after we read the email that we both realized that we had reached out to someone. Yes. We reached out to someone. I remember opening the email and read it out loud. “w0uld u b intested in sum disc0unt v1@gra. i sell chep 5 cnts a p0p u by now”.

4. Hiring Pete (Petter West)

This has got to be one of the greatest moments and rightfully deserves a place on our Top 5 Moments. Some monkey that used to program for me had died and I was walking down the streets at 4am at night when I bumped into Pete and said “Wow, nice T-Shirt. Do you like the Who?” naturally he replied: “I also make video games and animations” then I said “So what?” and he said “So maybe I can join your company” and I said “What makes you think I own a cheap multimedia company?” and he replied “The Pants” and then I said…well actually this conversation isn’t that interesting but I’ll write it down anyway.

3. Earning 5 Cents in One Day

There is something incredibly satisfying about Google Adsense. Not just the fact that you make money, but the fact that we live in a world where anyone can slave away all day making craptacular games, films, music and animations and earn 5 cents in a whole day. A million thoughts rush through your mind over all the things you could possibly do with that 5 cents. Will you buy a single grain of rice? Buy 1% of a Big Mac? Take you friends out to a coffee shop claiming “I’m paying” and when they drink their cups of coffee and the bill arrives you can tell your friends you only paid for the hand wipes? Or Buy an Easter egg, fill it with thumb tacks and give it to the person you love most? The possibilities are amazing.

2. Predicting the future

If there’s something developers like to do, it’s estimating release dates and looking ahead. So when we launched Cheese Media, what would be more natural than writing a blog post about how many releases the year would have. The Cantor, tons of films, Pivot ‘as well as another game or two’. Sounds orgasmic! But how well did we really do?

Well, guess what! The only release we had in a whole year was a single song. And what happened to all that awesome content we had to promote Cheese Media? The Last Eagle had to be taken down only a few weeks after release and the Pivot demo was later intentionally removed due to pure suckage. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking – there are fortune tellers who can predict the future better then us. For what’s it worth though, Pivot is still in development and is set to be released on the same day that Duke Nukem Forever is out, and we do intend to release The Cantor and a few new films eventually. But until that day comes, we’ll both have to keep predicting the future.

1. Releasing Splat Attack

Imagine you have just finished programming the worlds greatest arcade game, imagine you are about to release the most graphically advanced game yet and imagine the world has stopped to watch you release it. Well stop imagining, because that never happened. On the contrary, people were expecting the worst game in history – and that was being optimistic.

Now days, both Pete and I agree that it sucks. Unfortunately though, at that time we really thought that, or at least tried to think that it was decent because deep down we both knew we had just made something as thrilling as an invisible roller-coaster. Idiotically, we sent it to Mr.Chubigans to be included in his mini website “Simplex Bits”

“Its not quite what Im looking for in the SB line…It needs to appeal more…” -Mr.Chubigans

Everyone had pretty much the same opinion on Splat Attack, see if you can catch the blatantly obvious similarities in these quotes.

“Splat Attack sucks” -Blueflare

“It’s not the Ultimate Arcade Game. That much is for sure. It wasn’t great in gameplay. It wasn’t visually thrilling.” -Captain Ventris

We were torn, we knew that it sucked, and that last element of hope was dying. But just before we thought that all hope was lost we got another fan email, I was as eager as ever to read it, I opened it and read it aloud.

“What the f*** was that crap you call Splat Attack? You owe me 5 minutes of my life you bastard! I hate you!!!”

Once again I sighed and noted that we were getting real good at reaching out to people.

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