Absence Meeting.

Had a team meeting today, which went really well. For one thing, our team is so far ahead of the others, I don't mean to sound big headed, but we already have our concept document, concept art (more on this later), and have already pretty much got our engine figured out. W0000000000000t!!!11!!!1!1!! Lance has got down on paper the first 2 levels, and bearing in mind the game will only have 3, we are pretty much done on that front. He's produced a concept document, which has to be handed in next Wednesday. The good thing is that we will hardly have to change anything before hand in, which is always good.

Sarah showed some absolutely amazing character concept art, it's stunning! She really is such a talented artist, and I'm so happy that she is the head of our art team, I just hope we (the art team) can do her concepts justice. Ollie's been working on trigger events and lip synching, I modeled, textured, rigged and animated a character and popped him into the game engine, the other Dan produced a really nice looking level..with a super sexy 3D skybox, while Leander is certainly on top of the programming. Of course there were some members who decided that they didn't need to do these tasks; sure they were only tests, but if someone isn't going to produce test work, what's to say they'll produce the final assets?

I'm really really stoked right now, it's so cool that this game is finally moving from words on paper to actual visual assets...I can't wait to get started!!

We've organized a trip around Manchester next Monday to gather some reference material and textures. After which I think the team is off back to Lance's for some films and food. Sounds damn good to me.

If you want to see Sarah's fab art, which I'm sure you do, then the magical web number you need is: http://bitkari.com/absence/ (concept art is in the MEDIA section)

That is all.