Phase 8 - Stealing the Show

This is a little story of the whirlwind that was last week.

April 26 was fast approaching and our team knew it. We were ready for what can only be described as the 3 craziest hours of our lives. Since the beginning of the semester we were told time and time again that the game needed to be ready by that Wednesday (the 24th). Our goal in the last week of polish was simple: Steal the Show. Arachnotron was good, and not in that “oh it is good” kinda way, it was more like “wait this is a student project”. But the game didn't matter for the show, it was how we presented the game that did. If our trailer wasn't as kickass as our game then the entire team would suffer because we'd basically be doing ourselves a disservice to all the blood sweat and tears that we put into the game.

Thus the two goals of the final week were born.

1. Make the best damn trailer ever seen - For this we brought on Spencer, one of Matt's friends who is in Champlain's film program. He helped us a whole ton and basically created strike teams within our team to get B-Roll, scripts and interviews!
   
2. We need to finish the game on time - For this we divided and conquered. The artists had to get done lighting the environment while the programmers bug fixed and us designers polished everything. The main goal was to essentially do enough on the project to make yourself redundant and get off of the build. Monday we managed to have half of the artists, Chris and I off build. Tuesday the rest of the team was working into the wee hours of the morning fixing bugs and cleaning up the game while Chris and I played through builds the team sent us to find an squash as many issues as fast as possible.
   

All in all the final week was insane and super fun. I will upload the video from the show once the VOD becomes available (it'll either be here or on the post mortem post that follows!)

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