Second Bixly Arcade Tournament

It's that time again! In case you weren't around for the first Bixly Arcade Tournament, we've decided to give everyone another chance to get acquainted with the Bixly Arcade. I built it, I want to share it with everyone...especially those that did not have the opportunity to play them in their childhood.

For this tournament, we are featuring the game: Puzzle Bobble 1. In case you've never heard of it, Puzzle Bobble is a strategy color matching puzzle game created in the 1990's for arcade addicts. The point of the game is to shoot the color ball that randomly appears on your arrow and match it with the already existing bubbles on various stages throughout the game. If 3 or more of the same color bubbles attach to each other, then all 3 bubbles will burst opening you up to other colors. It's not that simple though, there are strategies involved, geometry and precision is key to this game.

So, bring your steady hands (even graphing calculators) and join us at the Bixly office for some Bixly Arcade action! The fun starts Monday June 18th, 2012!

Unfortunately we have to have rules so here they are:

RULES to the 2nd Bixly Arcade Tournament featuring Puzzle Bobble:

* Puzzle Bobble Tournament is open to ALL employees of Bixly starting June 18th, 2012
   and will run until July 15th, 2012.
* Participating players DO NOT have to register to participate.
* Participants may play as many times as possible to obtain the highest score possible.
* Scores will only be valid when game is played on the Bixly Ultimate Arcade.
* Players may play on their own time when available but MUST NOT interfere with work.
* The top score will be displayed on top of the Bixly Ultimate Arcade. Players are
   responsible to record their scores if they beat the posted higher score and
   MUST have at least 1 (one) witness present to submit that score.
   NO WITNESS = NO SCORE. No Exceptions!
* The winner of the Puzzle Bobble Tournament and prize will be announced during
   luncheon on June 16th, 2012.
* PLEASE NOTE: There are many versions of Puzzle Bobble on the Bixly Arcade machine but
   the ONLY Puzzle Bobble 1 will count. Each players are responsible to make sure they are
   playing the correct version in STORY MODE (NOT versus mode). Cheaters and violators will be  
   immediately disqualified from the tournament.

Questions: please see Vana at his desk or email at vana@bixly.com.

OH..did I mention that the Grand Prize is a 7" Android Tablet? OH YES!

Second Bixly Arcade Tournament

It's that time again! In case you weren't around for the first Bixly Arcade Tournament, we've decided to give everyone another chance to get acquainted with the Bixly Arcade. I built it, I want to share it with everyone...especially those that did not have the opportunity to play them in their childhood.

For this tournament, we are featuring the game: Puzzle Bobble 1. In case you've never heard of it, Puzzle Bobble is a strategy color matching puzzle game created in the 1990's for arcade addicts. The point of the game is to shoot the color ball that randomly appears on your arrow and match it with the already existing bubbles on various stages throughout the game. If 3 or more of the same color bubbles attach to each other, then all 3 bubbles will burst opening you up to other colors. It's not that simple though, there are strategies involved, geometry and precision is key to this game.

So, bring your steady hands (even graphing calculators) and join us at the Bixly office for some Bixly Arcade action! The fun starts Monday June 18th, 2012!

Unfortunately we have to have rules so here they are:

RULES to the 2nd Bixly Arcade Tournament featuring Puzzle Bobble:

* Puzzle Bobble Tournament is open to ALL employees of Bixly starting June 18th, 2012
   and will run until July 15th, 2012.
* Participating players DO NOT have to register to participate.
* Participants may play as many times as possible to obtain the highest score possible.
* Scores will only be valid when game is played on the Bixly Ultimate Arcade.
* Players may play on their own time when available but MUST NOT interfere with work.
* The top score will be displayed on top of the Bixly Ultimate Arcade. Players are
   responsible to record their scores if they beat the posted higher score and
   MUST have at least 1 (one) witness present to submit that score.
   NO WITNESS = NO SCORE. No Exceptions!
* The winner of the Puzzle Bobble Tournament and prize will be announced during
   luncheon on June 16th, 2012.
* PLEASE NOTE: There are many versions of Puzzle Bobble on the Bixly Arcade machine but
   the ONLY Puzzle Bobble 1 will count. Each players are responsible to make sure they are
   playing the correct version in STORY MODE (NOT versus mode). Cheaters and violators will be  
   immediately disqualified from the tournament.

Questions: please see Vana at his desk or email at vana@bixly.com.

OH..did I mention that the Grand Prize is a 7" Android Tablet? OH YES!

We had Parmesan Chicken this Monday for our special Monday luncheon and I think it went rather well again. For those that still don't know...come in on Mondays to the office to enjoy the best lunches provided by Bixly!

 The team sits down for a nice meal and chat.

Caleb and Shane make weird faces to show how good the 

food is.

 Dave's happy that he's having a good day.

 Dave tries to chat with Adam, but Adam wants no part in

this conversation. Poor Dave.

 Cris and Liz are distracted while Chris takes their food.

Shhh...I won't tell anyone Chris.

 Lean, mean and cuisine! Randy shows off his plate while

showing off some muscles too! "Eat up kids!"

You can see in the background that Adam's had his fill

for the day..oh yeah, there's Liz, Chris and Randy in the

picture as well!  :)

Badminton in the office!!!

Forget the treadmill and sit-at-your-desk exercises, here at Bixly we go all out with a full sweaty game of Badminton. That's right, a half-court with a badminton net, birdie and rackets. Want to get your heart pumping? Let's play a one vs one or a two vs two game!

Challenge: if you can beat Bryant at a game of Badminton, he will buy you lunch! So come on in to the Bixly office and get practicing already! Sign up below in the comment section on who you want to play against or who you want to partner up with and who you want to go head to head with!

Watch out! Liz in the back going for a kill shot!

 Shane and Jeremy playing some 1 vs 1.

 Bryant's got some moves. Here he's jumping for a kill shot!

 Even Adam (our CEO) gets into the action! Swing away boss!

Nick and Jeremy partner up to play some 2 vs 2. They win!

Bixly Arcade is Officially Back Up and Running!

My apologies to all that have wanting to play the Bixly Arcade for a while now. I've finally managed to fix the problem and get the arcade back up and running! Come one, come all and enjoy it without even losing a quarter!

For those that don't yet know, the Bixly Arcade is located in our warehouse section.

Pho Monday went well...

As a little surprise to Adam and the rest of the staff, we had a Pho luncheon on Monday! I think it went well, didn't you?

 Caleb loves his Pho! Two thumbs up!

 Bryant, one of our very humble developers, chows down on the noodles.

Shane inspects the noodles to see if it's up to his standards.

Josh puts more of the good stuff into his Pho.

Prepare to be Hungry

So it came up in conversation after a standup one day, that one of the developers was making breakfast. Well, I was hungry so I said she needed to send me a photo of her breakfast (so I could live vicariously through her)

Not only does it look delicious, but I'm pretty sure she is a professional photographer... And I'm also sure her food is a professional food model... Check this action out.

Whaaaaaaat?! Oh man that looks good... I shouldn't have even posted that! You know what I just ate for breakfast? Pizza... Cold pizza... Cold, three day old pizza...

Someone make me some rice and tapa...