CS369 - Design and Implementation of Computer Games, Final Project
Festival
Colby College, Fall 2003,
Randolph M. Jones
An enduring tradition among Colby College Computer Science students is to put
off working on your final project until the last possible minute. This year,
the students in the course on Design and Implementation of Computer Games
decided to chronicle this important part of CS culture.
The photo journal below provides significant documentation of the
All-Night-Finish-Your-Project-At-The-Last-Minute-Festival-And-Cultural-Exchange.
Had one been in attendance, one also would have had the chance to hear many
memorable quotes. Unfortunately, we can only provide a small subset here:
- Noah Smith: The chickens make the squashing noise when you shoot
them, whether they die or not.
- Kris Lee: Are you really making him go on fire? We have more
important things to do!
- Eric McAllister: See, I don't understand that.
- Kevin Septor: Yeaah - haa - haaaah!!
And now for the photo-documentary (many thanks to Marc Attiyeh for the
pictures):
- 9:00PM The evening begins. Note the youthful exuberance and
energy.
- 10:00PM Okay, now that we've had a few drinks, maybe we should start
actually working on our projects.
- 11:00PM Herr Doktor Professor Randy (finally) shows up with some vital
sustenance. Everybody is holding up two fingers. I think you are supposed to
take this as evidence of the time.

Thank goodness at Spanky's Pizza you can buy three and get six free.
There were actually some female students at the
All-Night-Finish-Your-Project-At-The-Last-Minute-Festival-And-Cultural-Exchange,
but this
camera apparently had some kind of digital estrogen filter on it.
- 12:00 Midnight Some people get a bit giddy when when they realized
they only have fourteen and a half hours to finish their semester-long
project. I think Kevin and Kris are spelling an "h" for "hwen will we ever
learn?" (spelling is not a CS major's strong point).
- 1:00AM This clock is in a lab full of computers. Notice how you don't
see any pictures of the students sitting at them and working?
- 2:00AM If you've ever pulled an all-nighter, you know well the "two
o'clock swoon" that leads into the "three o'clock fog" before you can proceed
to the "four o'clock I-can't-feel-my-fingers-type-daze".
- 3:00AM This is my serious-Herr-Doktor-Professor-get-to-work look.
It's also Mahdi's I-can't-believe-I-forgot-to-back-up-the-artwork-files
look...or maybe he's just yawning.
- 5:00AM If you are an astute observer, you will notice that this is not
the same clock. The Air-War group comandeered the Linux Lab for the evening.
Judging by the shouting and cheering we kept hearing in the other lab, they
were having a really good time. This picture merely provides more evidence of
that. During the evening, we also learned that Kevin Septor is much better at
playing his group's game than Chris Sotzing is at playing his group's game.
But important software testing skills were acquired by all.
- 5:00AM Youthful exuberance wears a different face at five in the
morning.
- 5:30AM You can set your watch to Professor Dale's arrival at work each
morning...that is, you could if you were some kind of lunatic who is
awake at 5:30 each morning.
- 6:00AM The Air-War group wins the prize for last group who hasn't gone
home yet, even if they may not be at their most productive. They did
eventually go home for a few hours, but Herr Doktor Professor Randy didn't, so
I WIN, I WIN, HAHAHAHAHAH!!!! EVERYBODY GETS 50 POINTS DEDUCTED FROM THEIR
SCORE!!!!!!!11!1!1!
Randolph M. Jones
(rjones@colby.edu)