Your intrepid social reporter wasn’t intrepid enough to be on the overnight shift so has been reduced to scouring Twitter to see what happened. Here’s a snapshot:
At 5pm yesterday I took a quick snapshot of the mood in this video. Then everyone was freshfaced and raring to go. How does it compare to 19 hours later?
Not only do the coders have to cope with time limits and dangerous blood-sugar levels, they also had the distraction of a funfair outside on Saturday evening. Shiny lights… Ooh, pretty shiny flashing lights…
Thankfully it’s not on all night or we might have found half the room glued to the windows like zombified acid casualties…
We’ve got professionals from the games industry acting as mentors for the teams during the GameCamp. We grabbed four of the on Saturday evening for a quick update.
And last but most certainly not least, Andrew Fray from Codemasters does battle with the lift. Why the interview is being done in the lift is anyone’s guess.
A few tweets from the #x48 hashtag that caught my eye and I felt deserved being blogged completely out of context. If you think this sort of thing is fun-fun-fun get over to Twitter search. Oh yes!
Currently in the lead on for most arsey tweeting is SinEstelle from Derby. Can anyone beat her/him?
They’ve been at it for 4 hours. Tempers aren’t frayed, fights haven’t broken out, heads haven’t been banged on tables. They are, however, a little sick of the likes of me sticking cameras in their faces (my vox-pops are being added to the Vimeo group and the Microsofties will be editing theirs over the weekend) so I just did an ambient survey over some shoulders.
It’ll be interesting to compare this with tomorrow afternoon…
Birmingham’s Lord Mayor, Councillor Michael Wilkes, dropped in for a visit and revealed himself to be genuinely interested in what was going on having been a programmer in the 70s. Here’s a bit of footage of Toby Barnes explaining the whole GameCamp concept to him and the Lady Mayor.
The mayor promises to mention X48 on his blog later on tonight.
