| My experiences at the C&C3 Community Summit [message #234198] |
Thu, 14 December 2006 15:10  |
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Crimson
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My flight to LA was completely uneventful. When I arrived, I took an uneventful taxi ride to the hotel, where I uneventfully checked in and got up to my room on the 9th floor of the hotel. We were instructed to call Predator on his cell phone when we arrived, but he wasn't answering.
I didn't know who to even look for, so I had to sit in the hotel, chatting on IRC, until finally HeXetic from PlanetCNC managed to find my room number and called. I went downstairs and hung out with some other community members, including Renardin, for an hour or so until dinner.
We took like 6 or 7 taxis to a Mexican restaurant for dinner, where I sat with Predator, HeXetic, some German guy I don't know, and DonCarlo from Strike Team/XWIS joined us a little late.
She was also my roommate. I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before, so when we got back to the hotel, I took a shower and went to sleep. Besides, we had to get up and meet in the lobby at 8:30am. (ugh)
We took many taxis to EALA for our fun-filled first day! We were warned ahead of time that we wouldn't be back to the hotel until after midnight.  Our first stop was the EATS cafeteria where we had breakfast burritos and pancakes, stressing the poor cooks out I'm sure.
Here's a rather blurry shot of Renardin picking up his burrito.
After breakfast, we gathered in a meeting room for several hours of informative presentations and demonstrations, most of which I can't tell you about for a few weeks. In this picture, you can see two CNC webmasters on the left. The rest of the standing members were various developers and managers on the team. You can also see the backs of our C&C3 Community Summit T-Shirts in GDI and Nod. The fronts just had the corresponding logo which I'm sure you'll see in another picture eventually.
Here's a shot of us eating sandwiches for lunch. From left to right, there's a guy from purepwnage.com, a guy from StrategyInformer, Banshee from PPM, and a guy from ModToaster. The half-visible bald guy on the far right is a guy who goes by the moniker of "Skull". He's a friend of Dragon Dronet from Renegade Effects (not a reference to C&C Renegade) who made most of the costumes and props you'll see in the game. In the pre-order video, Dragon specifically mentions "Skull".
When you enter the main entrance, there's a waiting area where you can play EA's games on several consoles.
This is a picture of the EA Experience store. Here, we got to buy PC games for $10 and console games for $20. I picked up a copy of TFD and Battlefield 2142 for Blazer for a grand total with tax of $21.56.
The employees also have an amazing break room which incites much jealousy in all who behold it.
Thus ends part 1 of my adventure. The next installment will feature all the hotness that is our presentation by Dragon Dronet and all the cool movie props he brought with him and more.
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I'm the bawss.
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| Re: My experiences at the C&C3 Community Summit [message #234206 is a reply to message #234198] |
Thu, 14 December 2006 15:38  |
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Viking
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No source code?
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"The Renegade community revolves around having something awesome, and not sharing it so you can be on top of the mountain." -Canadacdn
| Crimson wrote on Thu, 17 May 2007 05:22 |
| Memphis wrote on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:54 |
...fatally die to death...
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I don't know if you meant to do that, but triple redundancy for teh win. I LOL'ed.
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Awesome l337 people= Icedog90, Blazea58, Canadacdn, Crimson, jonwil
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| Re: My experiences at the C&C3 Community Summit [message #234245 is a reply to message #234198] |
Thu, 14 December 2006 19:19 |
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At the last place I worked they had a pool table, a pingpong table, a soccer table and an XBOX with Halo.
Jonathan Wilson aka Jonwil
Creator and Lead Coder of the Custom scripts.dll
Renegade Engine Guru
Creator and Lead Coder of TT.DLL
Official member of Tiberian Technologies
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| Re: My experiences at the C&C3 Community Summit [message #234318 is a reply to message #234314] |
Fri, 15 December 2006 06:45 |
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Spoony
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| Tesla7zap wrote on Fri, 15 December 2006 07:25 |
Ahh man, I wish I could've been there but I live in Sweden so...
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Distance does not put EA off if they want you there.
Unleash the Renerageâ„¢
Renedrama [ren-i-drah-muh]
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1. the inevitable criticism one receives after doing something awful
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| Re: My experiences at the C&C3 Community Summit [message #234363 is a reply to message #234331] |
Fri, 15 December 2006 12:41 |
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Crimson
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| Renardin6 wrote on Fri, 15 December 2006 09:27 |
I was pleased to meet Crimson. She is a nice and very kind person.
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 Thanks, Renardin. I have to prepare for my phone meeting which is in about 3 hours, and I have a company Christmas party tonight, but I hope to get Part 2 up today. My images are high-res JPGs that I have to resize and convert to PNGs, which is a pain. Plus I have to make sure the images don't contain any of the things we dare not speak about.
If I hear about anyone having detailed coverage like I prepared, I'll pass the link along, but so far there has only been brief postings. Many of the webmasters will probably wait until after the "embargo" has passed to post full, detailed coverage.
I'm the bawss.
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| Re: My experiences at the C&C3 Community Summit [message #234434 is a reply to message #234198] |
Fri, 15 December 2006 22:28 |
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Crimson
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1) We will need the help and support of the entire community to make our wildest dreams come to fruition. Having the support of everyone in the community, including and especially those who have had beef with me or us in the past, will go a long way to making sure the BHS is able to continue to fulfill our #1 goal and mission statement: Keeping Renegade alive.
2) There IS hope. EA is willing to work with us within certain guidelines to get what we want. And as most of you know, BHS is used to making things work with what we're given.
3) Though there is a negative impression of XWIS in the community, you guys have to realize and accept that they aren't going anywhere. I don't see how any solution would be able to promise 100% uptime.
On another note, since I have your attention, the BI guys were kind enough to migrate the BlackHand Studios' "Corporate" site to their CMS (Content Management System). Along with that, I had hoped to finish up the BHS/BI partnership and finally assemble the BHS-VPC, but I ended up spending more time wrapping up things from the Community Summit and preparing for my phone meeting. Maybe I'll find time this weekend, or maybe it will have to wait until after Christmas when I have another week off work. We'll see...
I'm the bawss.
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