The Aftermath

Well, I've just woken up on the first day of being out of work. I remmeber how much this sucks, just now it's having been working somewhere I was enjoying myself. Good thing is I've learned alot (mainly about lego games) and have some idea of where I want to be soon. After chatting with my boss on thursday for a while, for some advice on stuff to go into a portfolio he suggested to 'make a game' so looks like I'm going to have to have a play about with some programming and making some little things with Game Maker or Adventure Game Studio. Been a while since I've played with any of these. Thinking of maybe making up a scene in the Dragon Age toolset, for a short video to go along with it, something dialogue heavy would be the best sort of thing, show off the old scriptwriting.
However, though what he had been talking me through was good advice he also said get modding and I'm glad that some Ad, B and myself have already got this on the go and from what I know we have a few more people on board with us. So Lucid is now full steam ahead with me not fannying about with this work malarky. I've pitched an idea to my other compadres, more about this during the presentation possibly, though I'm not sure if it's something to be pitching while going for marks. No idea if it'll help or just get boring, but certainly afterwards will get on the go after we've got the main dead farm up and running.
To summarise the experience, putting the fact aside that I met some rather sound people along the way, I have really and thoroughly enjoyed my time at TT Fusion. It's been an absolute blast. The atmosphere is really easy going, the help I've recieved has been beneficial, though some of it I was only grasping the last couple of days. Big bold statement is what Stas says, and what I've learned during the design process is making decisions about what is actually going to be there and giving some clarity, rather than just, might have a rock there, might have a generator. Big decisions will decide whether a level works or not.
So I think that's about it for my time at TT. I'd just like to thank Ste, seeing as he may read this. You helped me alot there and I'm grateful for everything. Hope to catch you down the line somewhere and hope you enjoy working there. Don't let Chris convince you to play World of Warcraft either ;) And hope you did well yesterday and got that distinction.
Other than that I'm glad to be out of Wilmslowe and not spending three and half hours getting there and back in a day. Will be nice to have a chill for the weekend before getting back to it on monday. See everyone then (Y)