He Thinks He Can Design Things

So I just got back to Salt Lake City from a week+ stay in the Montreal/Boston area and I'm bringing back the first trophy for the EAE program in the form of a Ubisoft award for Best Creativity and Best Use of Theme for the Game Lab competition. Look at it in all of its glory! So how did it go at the award ceremony? I'll tell you..Read ON!

Earlier this week, the Reveal team and I presented..err..Reveal! It went fantastically and we met a lot of talented students from Canada and employees from Ubisoft. We stayed up until 4 AM re-working the presentation due to the stellar games and performances of the teams on day 1 (we were on day 2). Yes, we gave our presentation with only 4 hours of sleep but it went really well! Also, in case you aren't following them yet, Ubisoft Monteal tweeted this picture of (mostly) the team from Reveal. We missed you Nik and Max!

The first ever EAE submission into the Ubisoft Game Lab competition is complete, compiled and good to go. We are leaving in a few hours and before that happens, I'll have you take a gander of the game in action. Keep in mind that this is a prototype!

Jason T and I met up this weekend for a few hours to discuss the future of our Ubisoft Game Lab project. After getting some feedback from Ubisoft, faculty, fellow students, and some industry pros in the area - we decided to take the game into a new direction. A direction that makes more sense creatively, functionally, and one that we can build. Read ON!

We got feedback on the design document! Overall, they are most concerned about scope with our game. In particular, they mentioned that combat may prove to be very difficult to build. Jason and I (designers on the game) thought this would be their reaction to our design document. We shall not fret though! He and I are meeting this coming weekend to look at reducing the scope of the game and finding the fun fast. 

We did it! We just sent the design document to Ubisoft for our submission into the Game Labs competition. Just the like title, the name of our game is Reveal. Read on to find out some more about it.