Semester 2: Post 5

It's been a while since I felt so much like shit. First the Greg LoPiccolo disaster, now the Greenlight debacle it's been a bad couple of weeks. I made a poor presentation for the greenlight, it didn't hit all the points and what's worse I spent a really long time on it. What kind of precedent am I setting for the team if I keep on failing to do my job well. I remember during the presentation seeing the other producer rub his face like my father did whenever I'd bring a report card home. I cannot let the team go on spring break with morale being this low.
There are a few things that could raise morale: The next presentation could be amazing, the playable boss fight could be very fun in the first iteration, I could talk to each individual team member to discover their concerns. I know one member is concerned about the writing and I hadn't heard about that until recently even though the concern has lingered. How can I overhaul the plot without hurting feelings? I need to take a more active role. I've left most of the departments to their own devices but I need to just be over 2 times the producer I was last semester.

Minor concern: bad things started happening after I shaved. Is my team going to associate bare faced Jacob with failure Jacob?

Semester 2: Post 4

Semester 2: Post 4

The meeting with the Harmonix guy went badly. I don't want to talk about it. I learned to overprepare for something that vital.

The time has come to abandon the idea of having all the backend stuff done first. It was a wonderful dream but it's been too long and the blueprints aren't all C++ yet. One of the programmer has moved on to gameplay programming and we'll just fix everything that breaks as we go along.
2 weeks from now we are going to have the boss playable, he might not be great but he'll be playable. 1 week from now we are challenging greenlight. It's been a while since I had to do a powerpoint presentation. I hope Edmar doesn't dislike my presentation style. I know I don't like my presentations but everyone else does. I've been in theater though during this semester so I probably won't choke during the presentation. 

Semester 2: Post 3

Semester 2: Post 3

Finally! Visible progress! New UI! New Lighting! 

I'm always thinking about Dan Shredder,Dan Shredder is my life. My life is finally picking up and becoming exciting again. However, we need to get those greenlight deliverables done soon. Greenlight is ambiguously on the horizon. We need to get that done soon but we also have a meeting with a creative director from Harmonix on Monday so we want to slam as much polish in as quickly as possible.

Semester 2: Post 2

Semester 2: Post 2

I know what we're doing next now. we're making the boss fight before we make level 2. It makes sense since the boss will 100% introduce new mechanics and the pacing of the music will be better planned out. I'm happy about knowing that much since we were rather unfocused until recently.

We will be seeing a lot of new stuff added to the build by post 3 and if not that is cause for alarm. We will hopefully have a new fret board in tomorrow. The assets are done they just need to be implemented.