Coffee > Hangover

I woke up this morning feeling a bit groggy and not really in the mood for doing any work. 3 Coffees later I was buzzing through my project. I feel like I really should spend more time on the group project, but between working with Actionscript and working with UDK/GoW and 3DS max it's an obvious choice which one I'm gonna do. I really feel this third year has been an anti-climax so far. I was hoping to do 2-3 projects in the Unreal Engine so I would have a solid portfolio to show as soon as I leave uni. Instead we've been tasked with creating a game in Flash....

I can understand the brief, and I know that I aren't always going to be able to do stuff I want to work on, but if this project had been one that you do yourself instead of working in a group, I would have adapted it to work with the Unreal Engine. It wouldn't of had to have been a FPS, I've seen a lot of cool ideas and I wouldn't have even had to make a fully working game. When you compare our work with what the lower years, and even some of the past students have done, it all seems a bit lackluster. I would have given my arm and leg to work on this Dock project that the current year 2's are doing, instead, again, we were stuck with working with Flash creating a half arsed project in a group of 7.

Anyway, enough about my rant! There's time for that at the student rep meeting. Here's my current update, I'll work on it again tomorrow if I have time.