The Half-Year Gap

It's strange, you see I really have fallen into a half-year gap but it's only half as enjoyable as I thought it would be. My course has now officialy finished, I'm done. Not in the "here's your diploma, have fun" kind of way though. More in the "oh it's a shame to see you go" kind of way. I have officialy quit my course, deciding this is not the right one for me. That in itself wasn't an easy decision as it meant I had to find a new course to follow in an entirely new setting. If this wasn't best for my future than what would be? After listing all the pro's-and-con's and having made my decision I haven't looked back however. I had made my choice and fully supported it.

In fact one of the few pro's in favor of my current course was the people I had met. They sure were a lovely bunch and were closer to me than I sometimes care to admit. Losing them would surely be something I would terribly regret. I decided to postpone quitting my course by half a year in order to do one last project with them. It turned out to be one of my best decisions ever. We had a lot of fun slaving away at "Time Therapy" and became even closer as a group. I also grew closer to some new people, who became a huge inspiration for me.

We, as Quark, became an extremely streamlined group all completely used to each other and the proces. Not everything went smooth of course, but overal I think we have become a group extremely well capable of handling our own projects, which is something we'll put to use in the future. You see even now that our project is over and Time Therapy is done we are still working on projects together, the most important being a great concept for a website which I'll share at a later stage. These projects keep us all in contact with each other and may eventually even earn us some money. Hopefully.

Last Thursday it was time for the assessment in which we had to explain how we handled the project and would be awarded EC's for our work and different aspects of the project, for example Quality Monitoring & Implementation. The assessment went extremely well and everyone went home with more than the 30 EC's you should get for a project, the top one getting about 49 I think. After the assessment we had two days to spend with the group before it would all be over. We stayed at a members house those days and went dining out together, which was great fun. It's always the smallest members that eat the most, strangely. After those two days it was time for one final thing: the Global Game Jam.

If you're wondering what the Global Game Jam is this might point you in the right way: http://www.globalgamejam.org/wiki/basic-questions#what I'll also give a brief explanation. The goal of the GGJ is to bring many game enthousiasts together to form groups and build a game over the weekend, following a certain theme. The theme this year was Extinction and our group was, unsurprisingly, Quark. Sadly Daryll and Hanny couldn't come so it was just the four of us and a new person we had met there. Over the weekend we were working hard, or hardly working, on a game that would be awesome and would gain us first place. We ended up with a card-game that involves bluffing about one's allegiance, trying to suck up to both leaders in order to advance and win. Though the game was not at it's best yet, which is logical as we only had 3 days, we did WIN the GGJ at our location. I can't think of a better way to end my fantastic time I had at Communication and Multi-Media Design.

Thanks to everyone who I met during that time and who is awesome. We'll surely keep in contact.