Editing Gregory Fulton/Diaries (section)

== 01/02/99 Saturday ==
Well, I'm back at work. The Christmas break was needed. I spent the first three days drinking eggnog, sleeping in 12- and 16-hour shifts, and watching Clinton get impeached.

After I was well rested, the eggnog was all gone, and Clintion was impeached, I did what any game design loser would do... worked on the game while on vacation. Ugh. I'm so pathetic.

My initial goal was to play existing maps. After playing five maps, it was obvious the AI hadn't been fully tested. It tended to sit back and never struck out until it had enough forces to guarantee a win.

This made for very extreme game experiences. Either you never saw the AI, or it came storming out of nowhere, knocked on your door, and politely introduced itself as your doom.

When our AI programmer ([[Gus Smedstad]]) gets back from vacation, I'll need to share my findings with him.

Well, seeing as I couldn't really play the game, I turned my attention to our 144-page game manual... much to my horror.

It turns out our second draft of the manual was full of errors. So, with red pen in hand, I promoted myself from game designer to fact checker. Over the next three days, I proceeded to bloody the pages of our beautiful manual.

To say it was tedious would be an understatement. When it was all over, I couldn't read anything if it wasn't written in fine print.