Canyon

It's been a pretty crazy week, last week of classes, running around trying to ensure that everything is getting done for our impending final presentations, and finally the release of our America's Army map to the public. It's sort of funny because I really didn't have enough time to think about this too much before it actually happened, and then when it finally did it was pretty big. Funny thing is I had stayed up pretty much all night the night before the release trying to fix last minute bugs in our map with my team, and the next day I was feeling more miserable then excited. Then it happened, probably literally with one button press our map was released to the public and suddenly forums and websites were reporting the news of the new maps and our achievements, and naming us by name! Sort of a HOLY CRAP experience when it came down to it. To think that suddenly there were other people, that could be anywhere on Earth, that were excited and speculating about our maps and then to think that people were now playing what we poured our hearts and souls into... WOW! The next day we kept checking in and at one point there were around twenty different servers running our maps in thirteen different countries, all at full server capacity. To think now that sure anyone can download and play our maps, but there are something like 9.3 million active users already on America's Army and have full access to our map! That's pretty crazy to think about... The exciting part is this is technically my first game release, and I'm not even out of college! The EMC threw us a pretty awesome LAN party last night, it was sooooo much fun to see so many people in and being excited playing our maps and just sort of generally heart warming to hear people actually like your creation. So far response has been pretty positive on forums and such...

As far as how I'm doing? Well I've been at work all day to try and finish up last minute finals homework and really get our production game finished. I'm pretty excited for that presentation, Lauren and I have done some pretty awesome things with this concept this semester and I can't wait to show it all off =)

OK have to get back to work but if you havn't downloaded AA yet, go download it and play our maps!!

At least check out the info on our maps on their site.

Also be sure to read the press release, it's on alot of different websites but all pretty much say the same thing.