Hi.

[digismack]

My name is Tyler Morgan. I used to live in Hattiesburg, but in September of 2003 I moved to the south caribbean island of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. I work for a PC gaming company down here. Hi!

[usm_designer]

you the kid that worked at walmart and won a gaming tourny and then got a job testing?

[digismack]

That would be me. But you got the story wrong. It's more than a job testing, I'm the "Chief Gaming Officer" for the company. I'm the mediator between the company and the gaming community. I'm basically the project lead.

Funny how stories get mixed up after passing through several people.

[usm_designer]

well. this was a long time ago i heard that story.. probably wasnt even like that. thats just what i remember

you are hook up tight huh?

i would love a job in the gaming industry.. thats just crazy luck to have a job doing what you love. unreal.

[digismack]

Yah, it's a pretty sweet deal. Just for accuracies sake, here's the story straight from the horses mouth.

I went to QuakeCon in Dallas, TX in August of 2003 with a group of friends from Hattiesburg and Petal. This was my fourth year to attend the event and I had already worked my way up in the event staff. Plus, I was extremely active in the online gaming community and had a few connections with online organisations such as Xcast (a now-defunct gaming shoutcasting station) and The OGL (The Online Gaming League, the oldest and used-to-be most respected gaming competition site on the net).

There was a company there demoing off their site called YouPlayGames. The deal was that you could play Return to Castle Wolfenstein for cold hard cash by depositing funds into your YPG account and playing in servers that changed money between users accounts for each frag.

For example:

Everytime I frag you, $1.00 is taken from your account and I get $0.95 of it put into my account. The company would hold on to the $0.05 as a transaction fee. Everytime you frag me, $1.00 comes from my account and $0.95 goes into your account. Rinse and repeat.

Well, I met one of the guys from the company outside while on a smoke break and started up a conversation. It turns out they had a spot open on staff and were looking for people who showed interest in the company. I had an impromptu interview there during the smoke break and was asked to send in my resume / portfolio after the event.

I got back into Hattiesburg and got to work on piecing together my resume to send in. Just a few weeks later I was flown down to the island (Curacao) and began working for the company. Things were great at first, but then around January a few problems with management arose and by February the company went under.

Luckily I had made a few connections on the island during my tenure at YPG and was able to land a job starting another company for another investor that was willing to give the concept a shot. The new company is called MyGameRoom http://www.mygameroom.com , we have three of of the ten YPG employees working on the new project. We're currently hard into development of FragArcade http://www.fragarcade.com .

My position with the company is that of concept development, project lead, creative lead, and to be the gaming communities eyes and voice in the project. My official title is "Chief Gaming Officer" (awesome, eh?).

Lucky? Yeh. But it's better to be lucky than it is to be good.[/url]

[aaron]

interesting story, I'm anxious to see if your company does well. Can't believe your from Hattiesburg.

[raina snow]

Good to have you back at least on the board welcome home RAINA SNOW

[dasmybaby]

welcome!

[kevin]

Welcome!!

[Butterball]

Welcome home !

[faithram521]

Hey Tyler, I am upset that you have not come to see me when you have come to town to visit, It's Rachel by the way!

[carsalesguy]

yea, i can vouch for him.

we gave him his first real PC Job back around 2000 or so-

[Pirate_129]

Welcome to the boards. I look forward to hearing your perspective.

[amanda]

Welcome! What an interesting story, and such an exotic place to live. Look forward to your posts.

[aaron]

This is an '05.

[amanda]

This is an '05.


Sorry. :( Didn't realize until I reached page 3 of posts made since I left Friday afternoon. :smt118

[carsalesguy]

oh crap it is isn't it

RAINA or whatever- quit diggin them up