it's nearly over!
Well, I almost feel human again. Yay me!
I am done with that module I was working on. It's missing a cutscene, but I have until 12 midnight tonight to update it. I don't know if I'm going to be able to learn how to do that -- and do it reasonably well -- in the next 7.5 hours. Still, that's what I did with this entire module -- contest was announced 16.May, I discovered it around mid-June, then I had that week's vacation ... so all told I've been working on this for around a month. And the last week especially I've been putting in 10-12 hour days on it.
I sure do hope I get paid for this eventually!
Anyway, I submitted it around 11.30p last night, which was 29 minutes before the deadline. Afterward I had a mixed bag of reactions -- I laughed like a loon, I stared at the wall, I tried to think of other things -- but that barely worked.
I've come out of it relatively sane and unscathed. I do have this weird rash, though -- from the stress, is all I can think; it showed up 2-3 days ago -- where bits of my body are itchy and bumpy. They're almost like bug bits, but I've not been out to get bitten by bugs. And I eat so much garlic that bugs find me rather distasteful. I've even got an itchy bumpy spot on my eyelid ... what's up with that? And my back hurts from all the sitting I've been doing. Damn! Anyone have any recommendations for that? I can't just get up and run around the block a few times, or I would.
Anyway, for the past 17 hours I've been taking a break -- playing Lord of the Rings, sleeping, and so on. I would very much like to not do anything to the module today, but I'm not sure that's going to happen -- I am something of a perfectionist, and whereas the module is as perfect I could make it in such a short time, it's not as perfect as it could be. I just hope it's perfect enough to get me a job at the company I want.
After I'm finished doing -- whatever I'm going to do to it -- I will post it up so that those of you with NeverWinter Nights can play the damn thing. I recall that a few of you offered to playtest it for me, and I regret that I didn't have it ready in time for that sort of thing. But thank you for the offers regardless.
I am done with that module I was working on. It's missing a cutscene, but I have until 12 midnight tonight to update it. I don't know if I'm going to be able to learn how to do that -- and do it reasonably well -- in the next 7.5 hours. Still, that's what I did with this entire module -- contest was announced 16.May, I discovered it around mid-June, then I had that week's vacation ... so all told I've been working on this for around a month. And the last week especially I've been putting in 10-12 hour days on it.
I sure do hope I get paid for this eventually!
Anyway, I submitted it around 11.30p last night, which was 29 minutes before the deadline. Afterward I had a mixed bag of reactions -- I laughed like a loon, I stared at the wall, I tried to think of other things -- but that barely worked.
I've come out of it relatively sane and unscathed. I do have this weird rash, though -- from the stress, is all I can think; it showed up 2-3 days ago -- where bits of my body are itchy and bumpy. They're almost like bug bits, but I've not been out to get bitten by bugs. And I eat so much garlic that bugs find me rather distasteful. I've even got an itchy bumpy spot on my eyelid ... what's up with that? And my back hurts from all the sitting I've been doing. Damn! Anyone have any recommendations for that? I can't just get up and run around the block a few times, or I would.
Anyway, for the past 17 hours I've been taking a break -- playing Lord of the Rings, sleeping, and so on. I would very much like to not do anything to the module today, but I'm not sure that's going to happen -- I am something of a perfectionist, and whereas the module is as perfect I could make it in such a short time, it's not as perfect as it could be. I just hope it's perfect enough to get me a job at the company I want.
After I'm finished doing -- whatever I'm going to do to it -- I will post it up so that those of you with NeverWinter Nights can play the damn thing. I recall that a few of you offered to playtest it for me, and I regret that I didn't have it ready in time for that sort of thing. But thank you for the offers regardless.