The Jefferson Bible [1] is excellent in this regard. He removes all miracles and most mentions if the supernatural in a cut & paste job of a King James version of the Bible. The result is portraying Jesus as a person, not divine.
Deathmatch was always a blast! I remember playing with headphones on, the sound design was good enough to pinpoint where other players were hiding, and you could even shut off your engine to coast around silently.
I would recommend the story if you have a chance. It's a good revenge story and John de Lancie is a great sounding villain. The presentation is incredibly cinematic, which I feel was enhanced two things:
1) in-game cut scenes within the engine, good dialogue and voice acting, as well as the "car movie" camera angles
2) choosing to have even the pre-rendered cut scenes match the mostly flat polygon style of the engine avoided the gap between gameplay and cutscene. Not exactly the uncanny valley. The "why doesn't it all look like that?" valley perhaps.
Interstate 76 was an amazing game and lead to me having a chance to volunteer with Activision as an external tester. It was high school, and the chance to test games before they came out, even for free, seemed very cool.
I wasn't there in time to test I'76, but was able to work on a few games and see my name in the credits before I moved into a more traditional software QA career and beyond. Truly a life changing game for me!
I recently came across Curio (https://github.com/dabeaz/curio) & really appreciated their FAQ section on contributing. I plan to use it in any future open source projects:
Q: Can I contribute?
A: Curio is not a community-based project seeking developers or maintainers. However, having it work reliably is important. If you've found a bug or have an idea for making it better, please file an issue.
About us: Howdy.AI is the maker of Botkit, an extensible open-source node module for making bots in Slack & FB, as well as Howdy, a bot for teams to gather information from one another on the fly or on a schedule.
About the position: We're looking for someone with some experience in node.js, Express, and RabbitMQ.
We'd love to see some code samples, or an example of what you can do with botkit! https://github.com/howdyai/botkit If you are interested, get in touch with me, dakota at howdy.ai.
Howdy.AI is the maker of Botkit, an open-source node module for making Slack bots, as well as Howdy, a bot for teams to gather information from one another on the fly or on a schedule. We're looking for someone with experience in RabbitMQ, node.js & Express.
If you are interested, get in touch with me, dakota at howdy.ai. Take care!
Hermann Park is within walking distance of my home in Houston. Living by such an amazing space has done wonders for my mood, and my opinion of Houston. The park is wonderfully anachronistic.
It seems plucked straight out of some european city, or at least the east coast of the US. I think that owes a lot to it using the original plans from the 1910s. Growing up in Texas, most of the parks you see are basically undeveloped land, set aside for public use. A playground might be the only feature of some parks. This is completely different.
Where I live in Houston, I can ride light rail to downtown or a baseball game. I can walk to a wonderful park. The museums are stellar (if you haven't heard of the Menil collection, please look it up). I rarely have to even get on a highway, except when I'm heading out of town. The climate is miserable in the summer, thanks largely to the humidity of being a city built on top of what once must have been swamp land. However, the rest of the year is moderate.
I share this because before moving to Houston I would not have assumed any of these things.
Instead of explaining it, there can be steps taken to ensure a transition between prototype and product, such as prototyping in a language or for a stack that your company does not use in production.
The Jefferson Bible [1] is excellent in this regard. He removes all miracles and most mentions if the supernatural in a cut & paste job of a King James version of the Bible. The result is portraying Jesus as a person, not divine.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible