Saturday, August 2, 2003
So, the temple areas and tomb areas are now playable, all though, there is still much work to be done. However, I can now move onto the idol room.
So far, the plan is that the player will take the staff to the temple, which opens the way to the tomb. From the tomb are a series of tunnels which lead to the idol.
So, the yellow outline is the proposed layout for the tunnels. Basically, the entire area will lie above the tomb. Why? Well, rolling rocks can't roll uphill, now can they? ;)
Anyway, the large yellow room is the idol room. The path leading down to the green square is the where the rock will roll too, and is the most direct path out of the room. Players can't go up here, only down and out of the idol room. The path with a green X will require a covert ops to blow an obstruction... perhaps a gate that can be built by the axis. The path with a green 2 will be accessible via a boost. The other two paths can be accessed normally, but are close to the axis spawn, which will lie in the rear of the tomb. Hopefully, this will force teamwork and make the covert ops useful in this portion of the map.
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Thursday, July 31, 2003
So, my wife and I spent about 6 days in Seattle... and it was in the 80s-90s everyday. Crazy hot weather for the Pacific Northwest. I'm from Oregon, and it usually doesn't stay that hot for that long.
We did pretty much all the touristy things in Seattle, and then some. Dinner on the Space Needle, Harbor Cruises, checked out the Pike Street Market and the Piers, Red Hook Brewery tour (the coolest), tour of Boeing, the Air Museum, the list goes on.
Of course, I come back and find out a job I interviewed for the day before my wedding went to someone else... so the job search continues. I'm really having bad luck in that department. Time to start looking outside of Oregon. I'm convinced there are no jobs here unless you like to pump gas or bag groceries, and even those are competetive.
So, time to find work, again. In the meantime, I'm excited about working on the Indy project again. One thing I did in Seattle was go on the Underground tour. Seattle had a huge fire in the late 1800's which burned 30 odd blocks. When the city was rebuilt, they built up the roads, but not the sidewalks. The result was buildings that had store fronts anywhere from 10-30 feet underground. Later, sidewalks were built at road level, but the storefronts stayed below ground for some time. Those underground sidewalks still exist and you can tour them... I took lots of cool pictures, which will inspire some mapping I think :)
