[TRENCHES] Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - Interstitial

Geth

Interstitial
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/interstitial

Can you bend the log?

Anonymous

Games change over the course of development. They add things. They tweak things.

They mostly cut things.

Time. Space. Regulations about religious symbols. They don’t always say why either. And often times it’s hard to keep up with all the content that’s been cut.

I was assigned a Test Plan for a game that had a lot of content cut. The test plan told me where to go and how to play the game, and I had to follow it precisely for testing purposes.

“Go to point A, collect power up B. Confirm power up B is in Inventory…. ” You get the idea.

Being an automated form, I had to answer every direction and check with a response, even about content that was cut in the levels still in the game.

One of the first levels involved building a saw to cut up a Log blocking your way. By the time I had worked on it, the log had ceased to exist for 4 months. Half the questions on the level involved this Log.

“Get on top of the log.” “Cut Log with saw” “Find power-up beneath Log.”

I had to go through this level over and over to test it according to the plan, and every single time I had to give the same response. I gave it so many times that I put it into a wordpad file and copy & pasted the response.

“There is no Log…”

It got old fast, but this was my job the whole day…

“There is no Log…”

“There is no Log….”

“There is no Log….”

RMS Oceanic

Do not try to bend the Log...

I'm having trouble parsing the "It's leads back to me" sentence.

SabreMau

Just lop off the 's and it works fine. Or change 's to 'll.

King Riptor

RMS Oceanic wrote: »

Do not try to bend the Log...

I'm having trouble parsing the "It's leads back to me" sentence.

He is very angry.

RMS Oceanic

I predict that:

Mister Toots is the real mole!

Falx

F.O.B sees all and knows all.

Jam Warrior

'Interstitial'?

Is it me or are the comic titles trying to get as unrelated to the subject as possible lately?

Peter Ebel

Main guy (forgot the name!) is conflicted, because he doesn't want Cora straight ruing the day but the leak is not in his interest. He occupies the interstitial space between the rock of messing Cora up and the hard place of the ongoing leak!

Gyral

This is gonna end up with him getting someone else fired, isn't it?

Mc zany

Nah. It will transpire that Rarley did it in the five minutes he wasn't working there as a prank or something.

Darkewolfe

I predict they somehow pin it on the boss's mismanagement who then declares everything bullshit and swept under the rug.

forty

SabreMau wrote: »

Just lop off the 's and it works fine. Or change 's to 'll.

"It'll leads back to me"

SabreMau

forty wrote: »

SabreMau wrote: »

Just lop off the 's and it works fine. Or change 's to 'll.

"It'll leads back to me"

Then get rid of "leads" and replace it with "interstitially rebound".

Smrtnik

Peter Ebel wrote: »

Main guy (forgot the name!) is conflicted, because he doesn't want Cora straight ruing the day but the leak is not in his interest. He occupies the interstitial space between the rock of messing Cora up and the hard place of the ongoing leak!

I sense a Scylla and Charibdis comic coming.