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fusion94Jun 04,2007

Blogging and Drupal

Originally I was going to use this domain name to tell the story of Damage Studios, a San Francisco based game development studio that I founded in mid-2002.

Now that I'm doing more and more work with the Drupal CMS I'm going to use this site as a journal to reflect that work.

Here are the first bits:

  • I hope to release a few Installation Profiles as well as a starter module in the next week or so.
  • I'm also working on completing a performance test report on Drupal using memcache and opcode optimizers.
fusion94Dec 14,2006

How Damage Studios was named

When Damage Studios was started (Officially Oct 9, 2002), myself and the other 2 co-founders spent some time trying to come up with a name for the company that conveyed who we were as well as trying to tie that name into Video Games.

I remember sitting in my living room on Twin Peaks in San Francisco spending about 2 hours with the other co-founders in front of a mobile whiteboard trying to come up with something we all liked.

At one point during the discussion Chris DiBona mentioned using some combination of all the co-founders names. We ended up writing our names on the board as such:

Anthony Guntharp
Chris DiBona
San Mehat

After playing around with some variations someone put up:

Dibona
Mehat
Guntharp

Which if you take the first letters of all the founders last names comes out as DMG. DMG is an abbreviation of the word Damage and is used primarily in role-playing games and computer video games in general.

And that’s how Damage Studios got it’s name.

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