Devnote Tuesdays: The “Riding To GDC on an Asteroid” Edition

Felipe (HarvesteR): Doing some last-minute testing on the ARM Patch, fixing and tweaking anything that can be squeezed into the few hours still available before it’s time to pack up and head for the GDC. Also managed to pop by the immigration office downtown this morning to pick up my passport. It would have been quite an un-fun experience, trying to get to SF without it. Last week (and weekend) was pretty much full time testing and fixing details both small and large with the ARM Patch features. There have been a few mystery bugs we had to hunt down, but mainly we were tweaking parameters in just about everything we’ve done. All that tweaking really impressed upon us the sheer amount of new stuff we’ve added for the update. It’s been a huge amount of work, but hopefully it’ll all have been worthwhile. From my end at least, I can say I’ve been having a lot of fun with it, and that’s what it’s all about in the end.

Alex (aLeXmOrA): Still working on the in-game stats page.

Mike (Mu): More prep for testing the missions and new UI gubbinz. Some more work on surface effects tho not sure they’ll make it into .24 just yet, depends how testing goes.

Marco (Samsonart): The ARM tutorials are coming together nicely, QA for the first one is already in course, not too many issues too, so it’s almost time to merge them into ARM patch.

Daniel (danRosas): I’m full into the animation now, on those small details. Renders are finally done, after some weird history and reference problems in Maya, now I know better than to start modifying a mesh that’s referenced from another file. Don’t mess with the references. It’s safe to say that it’s now in post-production.

Jim (Romfarer): This week i have been preparing the new gui’s for testing. I also rewrote the controller for the application launcher. Instead of leaving a lot of the visibility management up to the apps themselves, it’s now handled by flags. All the old callbacks are still in place for those apps that require that extra level of control.

Miguel (Maxmaps): Editing, recording, re-recording things that came out wrong while arranging things and negotiating with the aforementioned mod distribution partner. Also helping out with GDC and media related stuff. Caught an asteroid too. Much rejoicing.

Jesus (Chuchito): Testing some features on the chat system, after 72 hrs of testing, flooding the system with fake messages.

Bob (Calisker): At GDC and really enjoyed Chad’s talk as well as a few others. It’s always great to see old friends and make new ones. It’s a great industry and I feel blessed to be a part of it.

Ted (Ted): Been doing some good ol’ Experimental Testing with the Experimental’s Team. Have to say that the ARM Patch is looking fantastic and the Team are really sinking their teeth into it. Additionally, the QA team has been testing out Marco’s ARM Tutorial, which is getting pretty great with some excellent rendezvous tips for the player.

Anthony (Rowsdower): I’ve been prepping for all things GDC. I’ll be around for media interviews. Not to take notes or anything, but to look threatening and slap armbars on anyone who doesn’t like the game. - or not. You be the judge. On another note, I am really looking forward to the Kerbal Kommunity Meetup tomorrow afternoon.

