/digipen/ - DigiPenitentiary

It's the Rise of the Triad…

Two people who have a lot of great feed back and one person who is obsessed with stuff that isn't important.

Ellingers talks bullshit all the time

Racheal is an HR tumblrina retard

Peters is pretty ok

Peters is probably going to be gone for a while. That's kind of lame. No more triad. I thought they had a good balance.

>>333
What is the story with him being gone? I have heard rumors, but nothing I would even consider half formed.

>>578
Last I heard, he didn't tell the staff anything other than that he wouldn't be around for a while, and possibly not return.

>>579
From UNRELIABLE sources I heard that his mother was terminally ill. I don't now if this was true or not, but it's sad nonetheless. It doesn't make sense that he would leave permanently, though, he loves the Students and the Zero Engine too much.

>>646
How do you know?
What's going on?

Dat Peters nigga has got to stop wabbling around in place touching his face.

>>649
The Chris Peters Shuffle was part of the fun of his classes, though!

>>646
>Rowan
One of these things is not like the others………

>>654
#CPSwagger

>>696
Man it must suck to live with initials like that.

what about beeman? So far she's been pretty full of useful info, and I think she saved me from crashing and burning on a phone interview. Rachel is pretty out there, but she also managed to stop our team from completely exploding and sort out our issues, and honestly at digipen I think having one person whose only job is fixing the social interaction blunders of the typical student here is actually pretty important

>>768
unpopular opinion but i think ellen, rachel, and chris peets are all great. ellinger is the anchor that brings them all down.

>>772
I haven't had a chance to talk to Ellen but I can see it. Rachel could stand not to do any damn grading of presentations though.

Is Stephen Beeman permanently joining the triad?

>>768
Ellen is a jack of all trades. If you need a connection to somebody, she is the person you need to know. You NEED to get to know her. If she knows you by name, because of a certain thing then you're in a right direction.

Rachel is more about team dynamics, but her comments aren't practical when it comes to suggestions to your game at least from my experience. If your team gets along well and isn't ignoring the facts then her voice is worthless. Which by the way didn't really help my team from blowing up and splitting up. I wonder if spoiler tags work.

>>772
Chris apparently is no longer part of digipen, but whatever Chris mentioned was 10/10 legit feedback. Ben on the other hand.. He's great, but he's an idea guy. The idea guy that is grading your game that you should listen to, but beyond that? He's alright, but a step above Rachel.

>>1370
Yes and no. I believe he's replacing Chris until the BSCS gets large enough then he may bounce out of the game aspect of Digipen. As far as I can tell from his enthusiasm of the CSProjects, he doesn't care that much about games in comparison to actual software. Plus, according to Ben, RTIS/BSCS can more or less interchangeably choose CS project or GAM project so I do wonder what the first round of softwares will be created by digipen. Ben also jerked off to the idea of VR while Stephen Beeman was intrigued by the ideas from everyone else. What ideas?

>Networked character sheet for d&d
>Data collection
>Heuristic based cheat detection
>Security
>Web based apps/interfaced
I forgot what else.

>>1372
>>Networked character sheet for d&d
>>Data collection
>>Heuristic based cheat detection
>>Security
>>Web based apps/interfaced
What the fuck even is DigiPen anymore. When do we learn how to make video games.

>>1374
BSCS isn't video games.. at a video game school. Trying to be a real school here

>>1376
we'll never be a real school.

>>1379
Nope, never. But they have to do the CS degree for the accreditation.

>Networked D&D character sheet
Are they going to actually finish Project Morningstar? Last I heard Trapdoor was running a kickstarter for the project Wizards already paid them to, so obviously there's money in getting paid multiple times for the same damn job.

Rachel's team on ones are the only worthwhile aspect of the triad, and of course your mileage may vary on that one.

Beeman is genuinely helpful when she gives full attention to a project but otherwise doesn't really help.

Peters was the most helpful, but he's gone now..

The rhino is useless and self obsessed. He keeps pushing his music terminology applied to games. More concerned with the taxonomy of design than actually designing a worthwhile game