Plan for David "RM" Michael

Last night, we had a full team meeting for the Paintball Net project. Our first such, actually, but something we're going to do weekly from now on.

[Note to Justin Mette and Dave Myers: Thanks for your presentation at the IGC. It helped a lot. I know I gave my dissenting view on the usefulness of full team meetings. I do hereby recant. =) ]

The whole team was able to attend the meeting. Unfortunately, not at the same time. Minor scheduling conflict which we should have worked out before the next meeting. Dave Astle could only attend the first half, and Dug could only attend the second half. Still, it was a productive meeting.

Since we held the meeting in the "Ready Room" on Paintball Net, after short status reports from everyone, we played a number of back-to-back "survival" matches (which are the only match type currently available). David Franson won most of these, though we all did our best to paint things up.

The game *mostly* held together pretty well. We're still suffering from the off-by-one object ID problem, so sometimes people would be thrown into a match without a weapon (which sucked for them). Also, Lars had an odd problem with not being able to see the chat text in the Ready Room. Possibly a settings issue, or even a driver issue, but something we plan to stomp out.

Everyone came away with a renewed sense of what the game (and project) was all about, and we're all fired up to get more done.

My only regret is that I didn't think of making any screen shots with all of us running around. =(

Have fun!

-David
Samu Games