Yes, we passed the first gate

Yes, we passed the first gate. Congratulation to all of us. \^o^/

The presentation this Monday was going well. A lot of people showed up early to help cleaning the room. Some people had also came to lab on Saturday - starting preparing the room. Our hard work paid off. The industry panel was impressed with the room set-up for the presentation. Good job to everyone!

Preparing the room for industry panel presentation

From 4 thesis games we had (Co-Signers, Vinyl, Ludology, and Mars Rescue Rover), only 2 games passed the first gate. It was sad for those people who didn't make it. Our team was lucky enough to pass the first gate together with Co-Signers. Frankly, I believed that we would pass the first gate. Our thesis topic was interesting: audio synthesia!

It was true  that in game audio technology was far behind the graphics technology. Almost no game (except those music games), takes audio seriously. Audio was often forgotten, too in prototypes - at least on our last semester prototype. Audio is just a sound effect! That's why we want to do more with the audio in game.

Mike, our lead producer presenting our game to the Monday industry panel

It was interesting, too that some of the industry panel member gave more stress in the graphics and art than the audio in our game. Our game is indeed focusing more on the audio than the graphics. The visual we are going to use shall represent the audio. Overall, they seemed interested in our game.

Some even said our scope is small and that's what the student thesis game should be. Indeed our game scope is small but the audio technology behind it is challenging. We want to do more than we had already done in the prototype: audio layering, better static spawning for any kind of music, particle effects, and so on.

Showing off our game to the industry panel member

Again, congratulation to our team. I couldn't wait to see who will come to enforce our game. I also hope those who enforcing our team would keep up with the work flow and good working attitude we have. Btw, had I ever mentioned our current team member?

This is the original Vinyl team member:

Lead producer: Michael Heiberger

Producer: Brianne Christiansen

Engineers: Me (of course), Jason Thummel, and Jason Kanagaratnam

And this is the link to our presentation which everyone praised as the best presentation ever in EAE: http://prezi.com/cr32athjux-m/vinyl/