I am sad to say that the game I was working on, Intrepid, was cut. Out of the five games, four were green-lit, and ours was cut. It came as a surprise to us, as well as a number of our peers; but it's not like we would ever not count on passing through.
This isn't the first time I've had to deal with losing a project. I've walked this path before, and in a successful career, it certainly won't be the only time. It's funny, because I was saying, on the chance we might get cut, I'd take it on the chin, and move on. But I was surprised to see how much I cared about it when the time came. To be honest, it wasn't even the game I was sad about losing, it was the team. We had one of the closest teams in the cohort, and a number of people put our game as the game they would want to be a part of, and I'd like to think that's largely because of our culture.
Perhaps a bittersweet ending to a project I poured so much of my time and heart into, but part of being an artist is developing a thick skin and staying flexible.
I don't want this all to sound sad, though. As I said, I need to move on, and I'm already ready to do that. The game I had worked on previously, Grapple, was green-lit, and I was put on that team as the Lead Animator, and with several more talented people that came from Intrepid.
Over the next few days, I'll upload the work I've done for Intrepid. I had to wear quite a few hats during that project, including quite a few that didn't quite fit me, but as the lead, I had to pick up where others could not. I will say it was definitely enlightening to be out of my element. After all, as Randy Pausch has said, experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And while I didn't get much out of the project as portfolio pieces, that was two grueling months (40 hour weeks, on top of classes) that I'd never give back.
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