Good April! It\u2019s Almost Warm! Pillow Castle is thawing! Life is good.<\/p>\n
We were able to discuss a lot of the \u201churt feelings\u201d created by our halves presentation this week, and feel that we addressed a lot of the concerns with our pitch and with thoughtful conversations with those affected. Hopefully no one thinks we\u2019re a bunch of ego jerk heads. If they do, they should come hang out with us. Or we\u2019ll come hang out with them. Or whatever. Maybe just camp outside their house. Hold up signs like \u201cWe Love You!\u201d This is getting weird.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s interesting how something that we viewed as innocuous could in fact be taken so wrongly. A lesson on perspective and on audience. We neglected to think about the audience that wasn\u2019t interested in a team from the ETC doing well and being a strong team at the same time — they are interested in the project work, the measurable results, the hard and fast academic bits and bobs.<\/p>\n
We aren\u2019t the best team at that stuff. Let\u2019s just put that out there. No one would accuse any of us of being academics if we weren\u2019t in graduate school, and there is definitely a gulf we as a team half to cross from \u201cartistic expression\u201d to \u201cacademic expression\u201d. Xiao and Albert are definitely able to communicate on that level a little more concretely than the rest of us, and so we need to rely on them a little bit more to tell the factual aspects of our development process more clearly.<\/p>\n
We also need to think about how our peers will consider us after this presentation. While we originally didn\u2019t think that by showing us having fun we would be alienating people, it\u2019s fair to note that jealousy is a thing that exists, and ignoring it doesn\u2019t mean that it will go away. We in no way intended to inspire jealousy in our peers — in fact the opposite: we wanted to inspire them to have the same kind of fun — but according to some, that plan fell on deaf ears.<\/p>\n
We regrouped and gave a damn good pitch presentation on Wednesday full of facts and figures and numbers. It was a little weird to spend the previous five days being embroiled in office politics, only to find that half of those people we were concerned about weren\u2019t even in the room during the presentation nor were they intending to contribute feedback. That was either very good luck or a weird sign that we had our priorities crooked.<\/p>\n
No matter – we have three and a half weeks to complete preproduction on the entire first chapter of the game. That\u2019s a serious endeavor, and one we all plan to attack with fervor. Forget all this GDC nonsense and academic this-and-that, we as a team have a damn game to make. Lately we\u2019ve forgotten that. Time to kick the tires and light the fires.<\/p>\n
We are not fighting aliens. But we ARE fighting bugs!<\/p>\n
Take care out there,<\/p>\n
-Pillow Castle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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