Ryan

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Hackiversary Stream

Well, that was fun~ Managed to get to the office early enough to get a computer to work at, so I was able to catch the stream while generating, printing, and checking reports. It was quite informative as well. Didn't know some of the stuff behind the scenes, including some of the mocap stuff. Someone asked what Aiden's fighting style was, and the devs quite literally replied "beating things with a stick", which was apparently based on the animation director's friend who apparently carried around a metal rod in his sleeve. And he was from Toronto. Yay?

Some of the audio stuff was really interesting as well. The hacking mini-games have Morse code running in the background, signalling the audio team's names. I did notice some funny beeping that seemed to resemble Morse code, but I couldn't decipher it since I'm not familiar enough with it to do so in real-time. Still need to get a fire truck and ice cream truck to a specific point on the map... And maybe find that bird on a chimney.

Another interesting point was made: scale. I did notice that Chicago seemed rather... small. I had no issue with simply grabbing a random vehicle and traveling with it to my next point, or just looking around for random things (and maybe getting a few side missions done). Fast-travel made things a lot easier, but it's not like driving around was that bad either. GTAV is huge in comparison. Even though I haven't played it, just watching streams gave me a decent idea of how big the city and its surrounding areas are. You even get planes! Which is perfectly fine because the map is so big; flying around wouldn't be too out of place while also not break game pacing. Personally, I like small, compact maps with lots of things to do. That, and I suck at flying planes...


There's probably more that I missed since I was doing a bunch of work at the same time. I'll have to rewatch it... and maybe download the cast somehow if it's not uploaded to YouTube at any point.