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[Update] - May 5th - Virgil's rant and roll

[nhansard]

new phone call between nisha and Ian.

Working on transcription.

[nhansard]

Ian: How goes it.
Nisha: Fine, I had a, I had a nap about 8 hours ago.
Ian: Where are you
Nisha: Um Illinois maybe... uh Indiana.. no wait, no wait I'm pretty sure this is Illinois.
Ian: Nisha you can't push yourself like this
Nisha: look this address we have in Pennsylvania is the only link we have in get back on track with the cars. I'd love to fly there but I bet Audi would wonder where their car has gone for days at a time.
Ian: what are you planning on doing when you get there.
Nisha: whatever it takes to get the info.
Ian: that's kind of extreme don't you think.
Nisha: you got a better idea
Ian: ye...uh.. No. I guess not.
Nisha: It'll work, it'll work. I gotta make it work, I gotta. What'd you find out about the address.
Ian: Ah, 62 I'm pretty sure that's Gunther's mom. She's 62 and I don't picture Gunther dating older women.
Nisha: Great... wonderful.
Ian: Nisha what are you planning on doing?
Nisha: WHATEVER IT TAKES.
Ian: wow.

[nivra]

Re: [Update] - May 5th - Virgil's rant and roll

[jbd]

The only advice I have for Nisha is, if kind old Mrs. Banderwine offers any tea, don't drink it.

[HitsHerMark]

When you work in the game industry, you live deadline to deadline...

If you are having your game published by a company not your own, there are these things called "milestones". A milestone is a list of things about the game that must be done by a certain date if you're going to keep getting money to finance development. For instance, By June 1st all the physics in the game must be working, models for primary characters finished, and the first three levels mocked out with placeholder art... Or something like that. Miss a milestone, and you don't get paid until you make the next one... Unless you can work something out with the publisher.

Virgil seems to be funding this whole thing himself (wow, that's a lot of dough), so I don't think the deadline is a milestone.

E3 is fast approaching... So it's possible he's either trying to finish, or at least have a playable demo, to show off. Unless you're Microsoft, the proverbial 800lbs gorilla, E3 is more or less where you want to make your big announcements.

... Or something.

As far as Virgil's consern for Nisha... I think he's more conserned with E-Nisha then the flesh and blood who lives and breathes. E-Nisha lacks that certain something that makes her a real to the player, so Virgil thinks... Perhaps he's starting to realise that the real thing is more important then the one he creates... But, being Virgil, it's getting all twisted.

Virgil has said it in his rants, he cares about Nisha because she is evocative. She reminds him of his wife, and inspires him to create games again, but he doesn't feel the need to feed anything back into her. With out real Nisha around, it's even harder to channel her carisma and all around "X factor" into E-Nisha.

Virgil appears to be what ya might call a a baby grinder. So without his muse to help him get the job done on time, he's freaking out a bit.

[GateKeeper]

Nisha: you got a better idea
Ian: ye...uh.. No. I guess not.


Not sure what that means, but it seems to support the 'Ian is holding back' theory.

[Cookster]

Just speculating about what Mrs Banderwine may look like, so Nisha knows who to look for.

[GateKeeper]

LOL! Is that gunter and a wookie mixed?

[Cookster]

[rose]

deadline

[lazarys]

[lazarys]

Re: deadline

[clalonde]

A dozen years

[Cookster]

Re: A dozen years