First and foremost: NaViGaWriMo is delayed until January, which is a less-holiday ridden month. I will be spending December working on other misc. projects so perhaps I will post about them during the month instead. Come January, though, Genki Genki...
You may or may not be familiar with NaNoWriMo, or Nation Novel Writers Month, where authors (and well anyone) attempt to finish at 50,000 word novel in a month. Well, novel writing isn't really my thing, but I do dig game design and programming, so when I came across a self-proclaimed National Video Game Writer's Month it seemed too perfect to pass up.
So part of my graduation process was a Portfolio Show, where I sat at a small desk, which I covered with a PC, a laptop, a PSP, and a book, and explained to visitors what I did my 2 years...
Well hot damn.... It's finally over. As of this evening I have a Bachelor's in Visual & Game Programming. And it all ended in a very anticlimactic way. No finals, no cramming -- in fact I was done with classes...
So people are getting up in arms about a supposed new ARG (alternate reality games - think www.ilovebees.com, the viral marketing campaign that got thousands of people to flock around payphones to unlock info about Halo 2) that rewards "players" with photos from the next-gen Xbox...
Sorry but I'm unable to grab my photos off my camera tonight so I'm going to leave the details of the day for a later post. What I can do is give you an idea of what I saw.