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the-deeds-to-shibden · 2 years ago

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Friday 24 July 1840

[up at] 4 1/2

[to bed at] 9 1/2

Reaumur 20° at 4 40/.. fine morning quite ready at 4 57/.. – we waited for tea which the prince would have us take before setting off – had it after 5 – gave his valet 1/. and the cuisinier 1/. silver (well satisfied) and off from Satchekhéri hall at 5 35/.. – fine rich corny open beautiful valley – at the river in 22 minutes at 5 57/.. – broad shallow stream – at 6 10/.. enter the fine wooded beautiful ecluse or gorge thro’ which the river flows thinnish horizontal calcareous strata – ford the river about 20 yards broad+? at 6 40/.. had forded the river 5 times (nowhere deeper than up to my little horse’s middle) and 3 old troglodyte caves in the rock (right) close to us, and several of them before – another troglodite cave midway the rock – wood chiefly beech and hornbeam – forded the river twice more and then remains of 3 or 4 of the troglodyte caves (left) bottom midway and top – bits of walling left – very picturesque écluse (gorge) from 100 to 200 yards wide – parched grass and the blue-stalked white prickly herb (goat’s beard?) that is so common on parched sands and a field or 2 of Indian corn at first – brush wood of hornbeam and kizil, and hawthorn, and privet and oak – 1 or 2 of the caves high right now at 6 55/.. and ford the river again and foot bridge near and at 7 the gorge or ecluse we peeped down for a moment (right) yesterday and its little river that we had by us (the Djoodjoola) falls into the Kvirila at a sharp beautiful angle (right) – our Gorge (Ecluse as Dubois would call it) of the Kvirila beautifully winding and wooded and caverny all along – a beautiful little amphitheatre valley (enlargement of the gorge) at 7, where 4 glens meet, and a log hut, and left, beautiful wooded gorge, and ford the river again deepest of all – my boots wet tho’ I held up my feet as high as I could – and ford the river again and again and another little loghut –

now at 7 10/.. a log hut and mill – as the glen winds down (Southwest) very beautiful – and young eagles cry, a sort of whistle or squeak – plenty of them here – and ford the river again deepish and wide (30 to 40 or more? yards) (deep last time –) now at 7 18/.. – the field of Indian corn left, and troglodyte caves (right) high above – ford the river again – At 7 25/.. 2 little wooded islands and mill and long field of Indian corn, and river to ford again at 7 35/.. and eagle flew across us, and caves (right) one with little holes (windows) in the face of the rock, the first I have observed with anything like a window or rather a light-hole – at 8 43/.. ford river again – herons chĭpōorăh Russian arētchĕe Georgian – the troglodyte chiefly right because of the aspect being South rather east – at 7 50/.. part of wooden railing and gallows and door-jambs remaining in the caves here as before (right) and ford river again – the wood in the bottom willow poplar birch, some beech, kizel – and strōênïé (left) i.e. buildings in Russian the name Adam gives to troglodyte caves with woodwork and bit of walling (left) high up – below ecluse rather opener and wider just here at 7 55/.. and ford river again and Indian corn, and at 8 another very beautiful amphitheatre valley and Indian corn and jet of wooded rock within our gorge (ecluse) and ride again thro’ Indian corn, and ford the river again – 2 little wooded gorges left, and our 2 (formed by the jet of rock one on one side of it, and the other on the other) and one the gorge forwards, beautiful and caves left – no sun as yet but growing hot in the bottom – at 8 14/.. corniche road along the rock (right) with another little green and corny amphitheatre and 2 or 3 log huts or one farm and its appurtenances and sheep bleating – under wooded foot of rock (right), – and rock full of troglodyte caves right, and remains of them as before, and many destroyed by the rock in front having fallen away and left only the bare hollow – corn fields and woods now occasionally seen at top (left) of our beautiful gorge (écluse) – and we now wind up wooded talus – now at 8 17/.. cornfields left along the hill side and in the bottom below us – everybody cutting (with sickles) or housing the corn –

at 8 25/.. another little enlargement or amphitheatre – ‘tis a zigzag the écluse (gorge) makes – beautiful – step tree-steps, and corniche cut out of the rock, and monastery of Rōō-ĭ-mē^vĭ (Rooimêvi) /Mghvimevi/ – 2 or 3 huts, and a wood galleried house and a troglodyte cave beyond on ledge of rock – perfectly picturesque and beautiful – arrived at 8 33/.. – so taken with the place I would gladly have staid all night – Ann against it – looked into the galleried (balconied) wood house, and no accommodation for us – a sick man in bed in the principal and if another room, only a small one – then looked into a stone building like an old church now 2 or 3 little rooms perhaps occasionally occupied? then at 8 3/4 the little church built in the mouth of a large cavern – beautiful – a little gem – the low folding doors (west) beautifully carved and remarkable each fold (about 2 feet wide) being of one plank of osier (basket willow) as said or interpreted by George – all the exterior of the church beautifully carved – no carving like it in point of beauty of execution except at Nikortsminda page 293. church irregular as to form on account of the locale – the interior 2 arcades up to iconostase about 7 yards long, and supposing behind the iconostase = 1 arcade or about 3 1/2 yards the whole length of church = about 10 1/2 yards – only one aisle (north) back into the cavern – no room for aisle South side – on this side one entrance door opens on to wood gallery suspended over the high perpendicular rock and by which one gets round to the west door – the 2 aisles together 7 yards+ broad- asked the age of the church – teeset-sem-sot = 1080 years /the Russian actually means “1700”/ – the cavern varying from 10 to 12 yards wide the mouth almost filled up by the church perhaps about 10 yards high – 3 or 4 yards of passage left on each side the church into cavern – extends 30+ yards back, behind the church, and almost at the end is a large stalagmite from top of which the water that formed it is now conducted in a wood pipe to just behind the church for the use of the monastery and the waste waste-water is carried out in a high vaulted passage about 20 yards long close on the west side the church, trickles down the perpendicular face of rock – the suspended wood gallery South side of church 3 feet wide – 2 or 3 reed or sedge – thatched huts below and fine walnut trees, and winding river smooth and clear and shallow, making an elbow

in front of the monastery – cornfields below and cattle – quite beautiful and charming – troglodyte caves in rock on the monastery side (right bank of river) and ancillary caves en face de monastère – fallen away – breakfast at 9 3/4 in the balcony of the wooden house and over at 10 3/4 and Ann went to sketch the monastery from a little projecting head of rock from 100 to 200 yards from the monastery – as a picture nothing can be more perfect than from the point where she is sketching – the monastery is 1 1/2 day from Koutaïs going by the river side – sat 1/2 asleep and penciling over again my notes of this morning till now 11 10/.. very good breakfast on the food they gave us at our monastery of yesterday morning (I ate almost 3/4 of one fowl and one hard boiled egg and cheese) and prince Gregory Tsiretelli’s bread and one of the priests here brought us a bottle of such nice light wine that we drank the whole of it – light as it was, I think it was this made me so sleepy – I reconnoitering while Ann sketched – calcareous rock (little motion in rock recess just beyond the church) wild fig trees growing out of it – they count here 15 versts or 3 hours from Satchikéri to here and 15 versts from here to the monastery of Djirootchy – little pigsties and goat-places cut out of the rock and fronted with wicker work – In the ornaments at the foot of each cross

in each of the 3 fausses arcades of west end of church 2 double triangles or 2 lozenges

and a little lozenge within and within that a striated nut or rather pointy boss, a common ornament – and the 2 mouldings round the west door

(my pen will not execute my

intention – blots it [)]

a line right down the middle of each leaf reminds me of the Cybele stone at Montpellier – was this the site of ancient pagan temple? – Off at 12 1/4 [written on] Wednesday 29 July from this interesting monastery of Rouimêvi (pronounced Rōō-ĕe-mā-vĕe, the a English as in made) horses to fetch from the other side the river – had to wait in the bottom – off from there at 12 55/.. – had been with the women 6 or 7 and boys and children – made them understand for milk – but arrah! arrah! no! no! i.e. had not any – but gave water as usual – several huts up and down the talus below the monastery and just under the rock beyond, and one or 2 troglodyte caves – Adam calls this monastery Wē-mē^-vĭ – It seems to me the Georgians are fond of putting a v or w before every word they can – Oni Wōn-nĭ – Dubois spells it Oni, Vuoni – at 1 40/.. back at the troglodyte cave with windows in it – and at 1 55/.. a moments peep at Sutcherchéri castle – at 2 1/4, cross river into our glen-gorge that we looked down on Wednesday – 12th time of crossing the Kvirila this morning in returning counting the twice that we crossed each time only one branch of the river – then cross 3 times nearly together our river of Wednesday Djooroodja = about 1/4 of Kvirila – at 2 25/.. cross Djŏorōodjă again 3 times close together in cluster of little wooded gorges, and 2 or 3 troglodyte caves high in calcareous rock right – hoary limestone – beautifully beech-and hornbeam wooded an bused rock – cross again at 2 33/.. and again directly thro’ cornfields (corn young and green) – Indian corn very beautiful – at 2 38/.. cross again into a bit of decent pasture and young corn – a series of little combes on a wavy line – cross river again and again and again – at 2 3/4 chalky calcareous rock and cross again and again and at 2 52/.. two or 3 1/2 naked lads with goats – cross again and again – at 3 3/.. cross again, and hut, and cattle and goats – stop for milk for Ann – none to be had – ascend the hill thro’ stubble – fine air – in the gorge strong Southwest wind – at 3 1/4 boy brings us water – as he gave to Ann and myself as well [as] the rest, I gave him 2 paras – thankful – at bottom at 3 25/.. having walked the last 3 or 4 minutes – now among our wooded gorge-hills again – cross river again at 3 35/.. and mill and pair of mill stones lying and our old road again – at 3 50/.. cross river again – at 4 in the river to avoid bad bit of road – dismounted at 4 1/4 to get water and found and ate some watercresses and did little job and washed queer that was much heated very hot sun –

at 4 3/4 our monastery of Djĭrōōtchĭ full in view – best view of it, on knoll-hill midway the high wooded mountain at its back – arrived at the monastery at 5 1/2 – went out almost immediately, and taking the upper path straight before past successfully the 2 little gardens (kidney beans and cucumbers the chief things in them) and sauntered forwards to the head of the valley turned round it (right) at the top till 6 35/.. seeking the source whence the water is brought in earthenware pipes with koupchine reservoirs (several lately opened and left visible) along the path I had taken – in dark wooded deep narrow gorge seeming to wind round into the next valley alongside this – returned at 6 35/.. – fine peeps from the high part of my road of the fine sweep of high, corny, grassy table land above our deep gorge and toad to Oni to the left as we went – everything wild in the Caucasus that we cultivate at home – just here I find apples pears, plums, cherries, red and white clover, hyssop, balm, common laurel, privet, etc. – this valley is a combe (crater?) with stream in deep ravine at the bottom, and the monastery farm, and cows, and good pasture on a green alp (a jet, a longitudinal torso of a hill) in the middle of the valley, the monastery on Eastern a low lip of the crater over the ravine and river that thus escapes into the larger valley below and falls into the river Djŏorōōlăh that we go along (upwards) tomorrow in returning home to Oni – very fine day –

Anne’s marginal notes:

5 [times forded the river]

2 [times forded the river]

1 [time forded the river]

2 [times forded the river]

1 [time forded the river]

monastery of Rouimêvi.

Rouimêvi monastery

12 [times forded the river]

3 [times forded the river]

2 [times forded the river]

1 [time forded the river]

5 [times forded the river]

3 [times forded the river]

1 [time forded the river]

the fowl-soup was so good last night because done with pomegranate juice –

crossed today Kvirile 29 times and Djooroodja 19 times

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whatdoesshedotothem · 2 years ago

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Friday 24 July 1840

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R20° at 4 40/.. fine morning quite ready at 4 57/.. – we waited for tea which the prince would have us take before setting off – had it after 5 – Gave his valet 1/. and the Cuisinier 1/. silver (well satisfied) and off from Satchekhéri [Sachkhere] hall at 5 35/.. – fine rich corny open beautiful valley –a t the river in 22 minutes at 5 57/.. – broad shallow stream – at 6 10/.. enter the fine wooded beautiful ecluse or gorge thro’ which the river flows thinnish horizontal calcareous strata – ford the river about 20 yards broad +? at 6 40/.. had forded the river 5 times (nowhere deeper than up to my little horses’ middle) and 3 old troglodyte caves in the rock (right) close to us, and several of them before – another troglodite [troglodyte] cave midway the rock – wood chiefly beech and hornbeam – forded the river twice more and then remains the 3 or 4 of the troglodyte caves (left) bottom midway and top – bits of walling left – very picturesque écluse (gorge) from 100 to 200 yards wide – parched grass and the blue-stalked white prickly herb (goats’ beard?) that is so common on parched sands and a ford or 2 of Indian corn at first – brush wood of hornbeam and Kizil, and hawthorn, and privet and oak – 1 or 2 of the caves high right now at 6 55/.. and ford the river again and foot bridge near and at 7 the gorge or ecluse we peeped down for a moment (right) yesterday and its little river that we had by us the Djoodjoola, falls into the Kvirila at the sharp beautiful angle (right) – our gorge (Ecluse as Dubois would call it) of the Kvirila beautifully winding and wooded and cavern all along – a beautiful little amphitheatric valley (enlargement of the gorge) at 7, where 4 glens meet and a log hut, and left, beautiful wooded gorge, and ford the river again deepest of all – my boots wet tho’ I held up my feet as high as I could – and ford the river again and again another little loghut – now at 7 10/.. a loghut and mill – as the glen winds down (South west) very beautiful – and young Eagles cry, a sort of whistle or squeak – plenty of them here – and ford the river again deepish and wide (30 to 40or more? yards) (deep last time) now at 7 18/.. – and field of Indian corn left, and troglodyte caves (right) high above – ford the river again – at 7 25/.. 2 little wood islands and mill and long field of Indian corn, and river to ford again at 7 35/.. and eagle flew across us, and caves (right)

Rouimêvi monastery

one with little holes (windows) in the face of the rock, the first I have observed with anything like a window or rather a light-hole – at 8 43/.. ford river again – herons chĭpōorăh Russian Arētchĕe Georgian – the troglodyte chiefly right because of the aspect being south rather east – at 7 50/.. part of wooden railing and galleries and door-jambs remaining in the caves here as before (right) and ford river again – the wood in the bottom willow poplar birch, some beech, Kizil – and Strōênïe (left) i.e. buildings in Russian the name Adam gives to troglodyte caves with woodwork and bit of walling (left) high up – below Ecluse rather opener and wider just here at 7 55/.. and ford river again – Indian corn, and at 8 another very beautiful amphitheatric valley and Indian corn and jet of wooded rock within our gorge (ecluse) and ride again thro’ Indian corn, and ford the river again – 2 little wooded gorges left, and our 2 (formed by the jet of rock one on one side of it, and the other on the other) and one the gorge forwards beautiful and caves left – no sun as yet but growing hot in the bottom – at 8 14/.. corniche road along the rock (right) with another little green and corny amphitheatre and 2 or 3 loghuts #, and rock full of troglodyte caves right, and remains of them as before, and many destroyed by the rock in front having fallen away and left only the bare hollow – corn fields and woods now occasionally seen at top (left) of our beautiful gorge (écluse) – and we now wind up wooded talus –

# or one farm and its appurtenances and sheep bleating – under wooded foot of rock (right) –

now at 8 17/.. cornfields left along the hillside and in the bottom below us – every cutting (with sickles) or housing the corn – at 8 25/.. another little enlargement or amphitheatre – ‘tis a zigzag the écluse (gorge) makes – beautiful – steep tree-steps, and corniche cut out of the rock, and monastery of Rōō-ĭ-mĕvĭ (Roiimêvi) – 2 or 3 huts, and a wood galleried house and a troglodyte cave beyond on ledge of rock – perfectly picturesque and beautiful – arrived at 8 33/.. – so taken with the place I would gladly have staid all night – A- against it – looked into the galleried (balconied) wood house, and no accommodation for us – a sick man in bed in the principal and if another room, only a small one – then looked into a stone building like an old church now 2 or 3 little rooms perhaps occasionally occupied? then at 8 ¾ the little church built in the mouth of a large cavern – beautiful – a little gem – the low folding doors (west) beautifully carved and remarkable each fold (about 2ft. wide) being of one plank of Osier (basket willow) as said or interpreted by George – all the exterior of the church beautifully carved – no carving like it in point of beauty of execution except at Nikortsminda p. 293. church irregular as to form on account of the locale – the 2 interior arcades up to iconostase about 7 yards long, and supposing the behind iconostase = 1 arcade or about 3 ½ yards the whole length of church = about 10 ½ yards – only one aisle (north) back into the cavern – no room for aisle south side – on this side an entrance door opens on to wood gallery suspended over the high perpendicular rock, and by which one gets round to the west door – the 2 aisles 7 yards+ broad – asked the age of the church – teeset-sem-sot = 1080 years – the cavern varying from 10 to 12 yards wide and mouth almost filled up by the church perhaps about 10 yards high – 3 or 4 yards of passage left on each side the church into cavern - extends 30+ back, behind the church, and almost at the end is a large stalagmite from top of which the water that formed it is now conducted in a wood pipe to just behind the church for the use of the monastery and the waste waste-water is carried out in a high vaulted passage about 20 yards long close on the west side the church, and trickles down the perpendicular face of rock – the suspended wood gallery south side of church 3ft. wide – 2 or 3 reed or sledge – thatched huts below and fine walnut trees, and winding river smooth and clear and shallow, making an elbow in front of the monastery – cornfields below and cattle – quite beautiful and charming – troglodyte caves in rock on the monastery side (right bank of river) and [?] caves en face de monastère – fallen away – breakfast at 9 ¾ in the balcony of the wooden house and over at 10 ¾ and A- went to sketch the monastery from a little

SH:7/ML/E/24/0164

monastery of Rōuĭmêvĭ

projecting head of rock from 100 to 200 yards from the monastery – as a picture nothing can be more perfect than from the point where she is sketching – the monastery is 1 ½ day from Koutaïs going by the river side – sat 1/2 asleep and pencilling over again my notes of this morning till now 1 110/.. very good breakfast on the fowls they gave us at our monastery of yesterday morning (I ate almost ¾ of one fowl and one hardboiled egg and cheese) and prince Gregory T-‘s bread and one of the priests here brought us a bottle of such nice light wine that we drank the whole of it – light as it was, I think it was this made me so sleepy – I reconnoitring while A- sketched – calcareous rock (little motion in rock recess just beyond the church) wild fig trees growing out of it –they count here 15v. or 3 hours from Satchikéri [Sachkhere] to here and 15v. from here to the monastery of Djirootchy – little pigsties and goat-places cut out of the rock and fronted with wicker work – In the ornaments at the foot of each cross in each of the 3 fausses arcades of west end of church 2 double triangles or 2 lozenges and a little lozenge within and within that a striated nut or rather pointy boss a common ornament – and the 2 mouldings round the west door (my pen will not execute my intention – blots its a lime right down the middle of each leaf reminds of the Cybele stone at Montpellier – was this the site of ancient pagan temple?

Wednesday 29 July off at 12 ¼ from this interesting monastery of Rouimêvi (pronounced Rōō-ĕe-mā-vĕe, the A as in English made) horses to fetch from the other side the river – had to wait in the bottom – off from there at 12 55/.. – had been with the woman 6 or 7 and boys and children – made them understand for milk – but arrah! arrah! no! no! we had not any – but gave water as usual – several huts up and down the talus below the monastery and just under the rock beyond, and one or 2 troglodyte caves – Adam calls this monastery Wē-mê-vĭ – It seems to me the Georgians are fond of putting a v or w before every word they can – Oni Wōn-nĭ – Dubois spells it Oni. Vuoni – at 1 40/.. back at the troglodyte cave with windows in it – and at 1 55/.. a moments peep at Satchekhéri [Sachkhere] castle – at 2 ¼, cross river into one glen-gorge that we looked down on Wednesday – 12th time of crossing the Kvirila this morning in returning counting the twice that we crossed each time only one branch of the river – then cross 3 times nearly together our river Djooroodka of Wednesday = about ¼ of Kvririla – at 5 25/.. cross Djoŏrōodjă again 3 times close together in cluster of little wooded gorges, and 2 or 3 troglodyte caves high in calcareous rock right – hoary limestone – beautifully beech – and hornbeam wooded and bushed rock – cross again at 2 33/.. and again directly thro’ cornfields (corn young and green) – Indian corn – a wavy line – cross river again and again and again – at 2 ¾ chalky calcareous rock and cross again and again and at 2 52/.. two or 2 ½ naked lads with goats – cross again and again – at 3 3/.. cross again, and hut, and cattle and goats stop for milk forth – none to be had – ascend the hill thro’ stubble – fine air – in the gorge strong S.W. wind – at 3 ¼ boy bringing us water – as he gave to A- and myself as well the rest, I gave him 2 paras – thankful – at bottom at 3 25/.. having walked the last 3 or 4 minutes – now among one wooded gorge-hills again – cross river again at 3 35/.. and mill and pair of mill stone lying and our old road again – at 3 50/.. cross river again – at 4 in the river to avoid bad bit of road – dismounted at 4 ¼ to get water and found and ate some water cresses and did little job and washed queer that was much heated very hot sun – at 4 ¾ our monastery of Djĭrōotchĭ full in view – best view of it, on knoll-hill midway the high wooded mountain at its back – arrived at the monastery at 5 ½ - went out almost immediately, and taking the upper path straight before past successively the 2 little gardens (kidney beans and cucumbers the chief things in them) and sauntered forwards to the head of the valley turned round it (right) at the top till 6 35/.. seeking the source whence the water is brought in earthen ware pipes with Koupchine reservoirs (several lately opened and left visible) along the path I had taken – in dark wooded deep narrow gorge seeming to wind round into the next valley alongside this – returned at 6 35/.. – fine peeps from the high part of my road of the fine sweep of high corny, grassy, table land above our deep gorge and road to Oni to the left as we went – Everything wild in the Caucasus that we cultivate at home – just here [?] apples pears, plums, cherries, red and white clover hyssop, balm, common laurel, privet etc. – this valley is a comb (crater?) with stream in deep ravine at the bottom, and the monastery farm, and cows, and good pasture on a green alp (a jet, a longitudinal torso of a hill) in the middle of the valley, the monastery on Eastern and low lip of the crater over the ravine and river that thus escapes into the larger valley below and falls into the river Djŏrōōlăh that we go along (upwards) in returned [returning] home to Oni – very fine day

crossed today Kvirila 29 times

and Djooroodja 19 times

the fowl-soup was so good last night because done with pomegranate juice

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sando38631-blog · 7 years ago

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markyeoh · 7 years ago

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Showcase & Assessment

As the dates draw near, we had a lot of talks about planning and what to do. Up to now, our planning has been solely focused on showcase but we can’t ignore the importance of the assessment. After all, it’s our grades. But I sense that the team has lost the bigger picture in focusing on assessment. It’s not entirely new, college essentially taught all of us that meeting the criteria was all you need and anything beyond that was just a waste of energy. But we are now in Uni.

The main point of difference here is the ability to teleport in the game. I initially provided this feature solely for development purposes as the map was huge and difficult to reach far areas to test solely by walking. This feature then went on to be used during GDM to showcase the environment as the actual gameplay and mechanics were still being developed. But as time went on, I personally felt as if the feature was being misused and wholly out of place for the game. Additionally, as time went on, the teleport locations went up to 8. Now, as the dates draw near, most of the team want to keep it in.

From my point of view, the teleportation takes away a major aspect of our project and changes the way people perceive it. Perhaps we were having different visions of the project all along and never really consolidated. Our project at its core was all about being lost, exploring, and experiencing. To me, allowing the player to teleport around made the game just one glorified slideshow and a cheap attempt to “show off” the “good parts” of our game. I hate to say it but it’s almost like “whoring out” the game, using its visual appeal and stripping away its actual value. Having 8 possible teleport locations meant that alot of work had to be done to make each area good and unique, as only the first 3 were of decent developed state, something I thought would meant a lot of work for our landscaper, Nathan. Personally I thought it would be logical to pour all our attention into the starting area to make it really good and even pull things from other areas into the starting area to demo here and there. From the start, my emphasis was making the starting area representative of the game, looks, atmosphere, interactivity and exploration. However Nathan kept developing new areas, spreading his work over a large area. Just for example, each area has to be constantly checked of floating trees, a problem with our foliage and landscape. Nathan has to check carefully and manually drag each one down to the ground. A slow but admirable process. But with 8 teleport locations, he is essentially multiplying his workload by 8, something that just doesn’t seem logical. And that’s just trees.

If I’m being brutally honest, more than half of the teleport locations are not that great. Some of them feature a single thing like for example the loghut. But otherwise they all look essentially the same due to the same trees. After the third teleport, I personally think that the teleport locations have no exploration value and players are going to get hopelessly bored or lost.

The underlying reason for this decision, from what I understand was primarily aimed at allowing Ben, our lecturer, to explore all the areas. This immediately rings alarm bells for me, as whenever people aim their projects specifically for their lecturer or whatever, they are ignoring the many others that will see the project. If we are just going for marks, why bother being at the showcase? Ben was and is not our “client” so to speak.

But the team has voted and their choice must be respected. As such, I will have to rapidly come up with things to either see or do. With my current problems with code, it will have to be see. I have already suggested getting one more tree variant for the other teleport locations. Meanwhile, I will have to model some stuff.

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