We had Beta presentations yesterday and it went amazing. The game is looking great and we ended up pulling an all nighter on Sunday to get all of our features in for Beta. Our Beta build is up on the site now, the biggest current issue though with our game is that it does in fact crash on the second playthrough of the game. It’s a crash that has stuck around with us since Alpha and we are still looking into the cause of the crash.
So last Thursday Vicarious Visions, a studio underneath Activision, came and visited Full Sail. Vicarious Visions has made many console and handheld games, Guitar Hero is one of their main IPs that they make games for. They also make alot of ports from different consoles to consoles.
My fellow teammate Tyler Keenan, myself, and Ten other Full Sailers got the pleasure to sitdown with Claudia Franco from Activision, Kerry Allen a former student from Full Sail and current programmer at Vicarious Visions, and Christina Nichols a recruiter at Vicarious Visions. All three of them had amazing information about both Activision and Vicarious Visions, got great information on how the interview process is done at VV, got some information on Demonware which is a middleware api Activision is starting to use.
So after the 1 hour sitdown we went to final presentations where my roommate and some other friends were presenting their games. At 5 o’clock that night VV put on a presentation where they took in many questions from Full Sailers that were very curious about both companies.
Early the next morning I was able to interview with VV for a possible job with them. I think the interview went amazing and wanted to thank Kerry and Christina for making it a very relaxing atmosphere. VV seems like a company I could really see myself fitting in at and I look forward to following up on the interview.
But just wanted to give one final thank you to Claudia Franco, Kerry Allen, and Christina Nichols for taking the time out of their schedules to come down and visit Full Sail. Wanted to also give another shout out to our amazing Career Development Department at Full Sail for giving us an opportunity to meet amazing companies like VV and Activision. Rob Coble continues to do an amazing job of getting these companies interested in Full Sail.
But about to do Beta presentations, so we will have our Beta build up on the website this afternoon….