So Pico Day was amazing. I met everyone and their mother Im pretty sure ;)
I'm going through the weekend in my head and trying to remember all the names and faces.
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Highlights for my experience
-I'm a few months from being 21, so I was prohibited from going into the bar/arcade that everyone was meeting. I was completely fine with talking to whoever was outside at the time, I assumed a few people would take smoke breaks relatively often. Jaxxy, Tomamoto, RicePirate, and LeftHandedSock told me straight up that they were willing to chill outside with me and talk, which was pretty fucking cool of them. Then to top it all of Tom followed suit and we all discussed about Newgrounds's future as well as the movies Warlock and Strange Days which I will be watching in the near future.
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-Luis made sure I knew what a batwing was, Tomar demonstrated beautifully.
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-HaniaLee and I teamed up to gracefully lose a game of Pool in the NG office. She was really sweet and pretty damn funny. (Apparently stripes and solids are called bigs and littles in Australia?)
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-Turns out El Cid went to the same program that I am currently in, he's a talented man and we talked for hours about pretty much everything. I've been in a class with his little sister for the entire semester and I had no clue... very small world.
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MasterAardvark fingered my mouth, and the proceeded to tell me a story about how he recently bathed his hands in Oney's filth ;D
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-Oney took some pretty candid photos of everyone and drew dicks on the projector :)
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There were plenty more great moments....all in all this was a lot of fun and I'll definitely try to make it out there again.
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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
So I set an extremely high standard for myself and for a final project, I was to animate/code an interactive narrative that could split off into various routes at critical points of the story. It ended up with 52 scenes(each about a minute long) and 29 possible endings. I chose a style that was effective but simple enough that I could produce in a mass amount in 26 days.
Well I just presented the project today to multiple groups of audiences of all ages and genders and nothing broke, the game worked just as it should. People loved it, some came back and tried again for a better ending. The challenge was won. I will be submitting it to newgrounds in ~2 weeks. I plan on adding achievements to encourage multiple playthroughs.. possibly even more content.
