Lemon -> Lemonade is how denrei rolls
thedenrei posted in Uncategorized on August 8th, 2006
Its an unforgiving life for a refugee here in Madison WI. Its been over a week since flooding forced my entire apartment complex to relocate, and it looks like move out day will over take being allowed back in. It seems that our underground basement/garage became completely filled with water to chest/neck level, floating the cars it housed. The result was in the form of a damaged, hazardous transformer and a pool of filth and gasoline. My roommate: “Fun half day of helping cute girls in sports bras push their cars out of the garage turned into shitty half month of homelessness”. My beloved roommates, bless their little hearts, didn’t clean out their fridge when the power initially went out, opting to save that task for about 5 days later, after spending the weekend away. (I have my own mini-fridge where I keep my stuff ((I love you Mom, Dad)) which was cleaned out in a responsible and timely manner.)
But, as I’ve been instant messaging to concerned onlookers, lemon -> lemonade is how denrei rolls.
I’ve been taking daily showers in the University Gyms available to students here, and used this opportunity to start working out. This means I’ve had to up my diet from a single chipotle burrito every day to a burrito and a large tuna sandwich. Also, I drink far more milk than I’m comfortable with, which is bought from a nearby convenience store at a price much higher than I’m comfortable with, at a time much closer to the expiration date than I’m comfortable with.
All of this means that I’ve spent a huge amount of time in the UPL and PubCrawl has been coming together brilliantly. Tony and I have been working most our waking hours on it. Our time is split between describing to one another of how great the systems/we are, and making an interesting/productive test. Its a little heart breaking to have these models that I’ve invested so much effort into to make normal mapped shlopped in here with bland maps, but its also great to see them in the engine in any form.
Please keep in mind as you play these milestone tests (crossblast, pubcrawl, whatever we do next) we definitely do NOT consider these complete upon release and hardly “games” at all – they are short term tools meant to hone our skills and technology for games to come, and we’re excited to share what we’ve done with people who happen to be interested.
P.S. for those of you who tried crossblast and it didn’t run – please do give this one a try. If it doesn’t work, it would be very helpful to us to get a comment letting us know. Part of the purpose of distributing these is to reveal various machine-specific problems. Our QA department consists of my roommate’s dell laptop and Tony’s girlfriend’s desktop.
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