Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Internships, Gold Masters, and Smiles

It is three days away from my summer vacation, and it is on the second day of this snow storm we are getting. Something doesn't seem to add up to me here.

I have no doubt in my mind that this summer is going to kick so much ass. I am incredibly happy to announce that I was offered an internship at 38 Studios as a QA Tester. I'm sure you can imagine that there was no way in hell that I could turn that down, so I'm sending my acceptance letter today. I'll be working closely with the QA Leads, and I cannot wait.

I am currently sitting in the Emergent Media Center waiting for a small group of middle school students to come by for some job shadowing, and I have a nice, cool bottle of Mountain Dew to keep me company (did I mention that it's 8:45 in the morning?!). Monday night I pulled my first full all nighter of college -- I usually give myself at least 20 minutes of sleep, but that was not much of an option that night. Team Work (our team name) had our Gold Master of our UDK game called Recognition due yesterday, and we are all incredibly happy about how it turned out. We want to continue to add some polish and make some tweaks to the gameplay, and when we feel like it's fully done, we'll be creating a ModDB page, and I'll be sure to link it here.

Last night was the 2nd Annual Game Demo Night at Champlain College, and it was a lot of fun. Get a bunch of nerds in a room together with a projector, computer, and sound system, and there is bound to be a small competition of Robot Unicorn Attack. Various teams showed off their games last night -- not including our team (most of which was sleeping after our work-filled night) -- and they were really great to see. I made some friends and really felt like this is one of the best communities at Champlain. I'm hoping that next year as a senior I can do my part to make it better.


Summer is just 2 papers, 1 presentation, and 3 days away, and I'm smiling.

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