Ba-dum tish

So it’s Friday which means two things: Weekend and Pie. To me it also meant something else today, namely stress. 21th of January is the official deadline for every project in the minor Game Design. It became time to close the chapter that is Time Therapy or, as you may know it, Alec Thorne: Memorabilia.

We had to turn in everything we had at exactly 12:00am. It all had to be handed over neatly on a disc containing the game itself, our Game Design Document and every interview result, sketch or moodboard we had left. Naturally to get this all together meant a lot of stress the previous night. Although, thinking back on it I’m rather stress free at these times. All of the work does take up most of the night though so I’ll have to do with some extra sleep during the weekend.

Even this morning everything was still being put together until, at about 11:15, we were finally able to burn the disc correctly. And then it was done. The project was ready to be assessed by the teachers. Everyone had worked hard to deliver the best product possible. My focus these last weeks went mostly to the editing and exporting of the intro sequence using some great images created by the amazing Concept Artist Hanny.

When we started playing our game on the disc that would be handed to the teachers there were some mixed feelings. See if you’ve been working on something so focused for such a time you only start to pay attention to the things that can be improved. I could still spend hours tweaking the intro sequence to be even better despite everyone saying it’s actually really good as it is now. Seeing everyone’s hard work come together to form this product was immensely satisfying though. This is something we created together, in which each of us had our part to play. And we played them wonderfully.

This week was also a start of something very exciting. I finally got to go to my first drum lesson together with Robin. Even playing some simple rhythms(lovely word) was amazing and I can’t wait for the second lesson. If only there was an easy way to have your personal drum kit at home without waking the entire neighborhood. Ah well, I’m more than satisfied with my keyboard for now, though I think it’s only a matter of time until he’s accompanied by another instrument. Some things are just too awesome not to have.