Yesterday was the first day of Dare. Ill try to give you an account of what happened but by the end of the day all our minds were pretty much mush.
We all met up at the station and headed over to our uni accommodation to dump the stuff. Its pretty nice rooms with some really nice views and possibly the thinnest doors ever conceived by man. We've got a communal eating area / kitchen so its all pretty nice and functional. We got time to speak to the other teams and the Dare staff while we waited before heading off to EA.
So we all met up and got in - signed some contracts and went through general security procedures before we assembled for team photos. Busted out some of our best boy band poses as the guy took reams and reams of photos. Little did we know it was going to be a long camera heavy day and soon after we headed up stairs for a massive group photo. Ill have to try and find some copies - i'm pretty sure they will be going up on the Dare site.
http://www.daretobedigital.com/news/news_image.php?storyno=229&pic=2
After this we went through our induction - signing more paperwork and getting all our kit tested. The workstations we have set up are amazing! I'll see if were allowed to take photos to show you guys. Every one has a dual monitor set up with brand new PC's courtesy of AMD. Being in EA it means we have everything we need kit wise and some of the most pimping chairs ever weighing in at £600 a pop ^_^
Cant really describe how epic the day was really. After lunch we had more photo / video calls recreating our failed attempt to enter the building first time that resulted in a 20 geek stack outside the building. After riding the escalator 3 or 4 times in what were sure was some kind of MIB aptitude test we were pretty much free to start getting to grips with our workstations. Being team #1 has its benefits as well s its curses, in this case being the prime victim for the Film guy.
Already imposing due the Sarlac like lens he had on his beast camera, its hard to maintain any kind of cool when your told its going to be a channel 4 documentary, considering it had already been an early morning and pretty mind blowingly intense day. So we did a few interviews and got to meet all our mentors for the next 10 weeks. They're all really cool, especially considering they do it all voluntarily around their other work, usually in lunch breaks or outside of office hours.
The afternoon ended up with a sort of icebreaker event with mountains of free pizza and beer, followed up with a trip to the pub. Got to speak with the guys who interviewed us in a bit more detail (alot of talking about Syndiate to loads of ex-bullfrog guys) and get to talk about loads of interesting stuff with members of EA. It was great to talk to people about our concept and it was encouraging to hear they had all heard about "the love game"- to be honest I think we were all a taken aback with how much enthusiasm, time and effort the EA and Dare team have put in for us and so now were really keen to get on an make something awesome :D
Lucid Dreams
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