Beta

Beta for RYB was yesterday. I can honestly say that it is the first time I ever remember not needing to crunch the night before to make sure everything is done. I mean yes we worked the night before hand but we were done and went our separate ways at 9:30, all confident in the work we had just produced.

I don't want to brag or anything but on Monday when we showed our game off to the rest of the class I have to say our game looked the most fun and most complete out of the class's. Everything about this project is just clicking. It has been a beautiful experience working with all of these fine gentleman.

We have gold master in two weeks and all that's left for us is to play test, tweak, and polish. I believe that we are going to have a wonderful game come end of the semester. I find myself wondering if maybe there's some mojo surrounding me, because this is the second year in a row where I feel I worked on the best game in the class. Maybe it's just coincidence I do not know.

As far as Interactive Storytelling goes, I am having my decision to write a linear game reinforced by seeing what is happening to my classmates. Quite a few of them are dropping their branching dialogue paths in an attempt to actually finish their scripts. I on the other hand am sitting pretty and not stressing out about the script as it was never my intention to include branching dialogue.

The UN project is pushing forward and I'm applying to work on the Quality Assurance side of the project now. The high level concept of the actual game is what Brian George and I came up with at the start of the school year and I feel that as I will hopefully be graduating next year that I should take a step back and let others finish what we started.

I am also planning on being very dedicated to Senior Team Project as it will probably allow me to make one of my best portfolio pieces so I am not sure if I would be able to continue on the UN project this fall and as such I do not want to be in a Lead role and then abandon the project. So this "transfer" to the QA role would be beneficial to everyone involved.