ZAB!

Hello boys (and maybe girls), it's your old friend Jalbert. I want to congratulate you on the progress you have made in such a short time! I am interested in your thoughts on the morale boost provided by ZAB! and its benefits in game development. Please respond either in written or T-Shirt form.

Jalbert! Great to see you around man.

I'll ping the guys around here.

Hope you're tearing it up.

It's an old friend I've never had! Welcome (back?)!

Jalbert worked with most of us at GPG.

Jalbert! I'm jonzing for some sweet tea! How the hell are ya?

In that case, hello and greetings Jalbert!

Can you enlighten us n00bs what ZAB! is, please? Google isn't exactly helpful today unless it has something to do with thai food, boxing or typography...

Ah! Well then he is a friend since I've enjoyed their games

I second Jessep with wondering what ZAB means. "Zebras and Buckeroos!" ?

ZAB = Zero "A" Bugs
It's a term used for the first finaling milestone. An "A" bug are the most serious bugs that you absolutely can't ship with. Things like crash bugs, missing features, etc.

On Supreme Commander one of the content engineers that worked for me liked the word 'ZAB' so much that he made shirts for everyone. And then, of course, walked around GPG saying 'ZAB!'

Thanks for the explanation, I didn't know the abbrevation ZAB yet.

oh good, I'm glad I didn't delete the original post when I was clearing out the spam, I left it for someone else to deal with.

Hello

Yes, Scathis has hit it on the head. Zab! is indeed a good day. Of course any day closer to gold is a better day. We should have made better Tshirts...mine disintegrated pretty quickly. We should have squeezed Taylor for some money in this endeavor.

Naut, I'm doing well. I've made way too many (crappy) games this year. I feel like i've been in crunch mode for way too long. I'm ready for a long project with deadlines far into the horizon. As for the tea, it flows freely. So freely in fact that I gained 10 pounds as soon as I moved back. Luckily that has now been shed. They're gonna take my feet if im not careful. I'm plugging along as an environment artist. Its got its ups and downs, especially in 3rd person shooters. There's way too much goddamn collision everywhere that you have to account for. I'm sure you guys are feeling it on your end.

How's production going?

Holy crap.. I love ZAB. I believe I still have both of my ZAB shirts, for SupCom and FA. The FA ones got sparkles on them and were actually not dissolvable in water.

Good to see ya Jalbert

I still have my ZAB shirt somewhere. Come to think of it I'm not sure I ever paid Drew... er I guess I should call him

I wonder if we should get some Uber shirts made up...

Funny... I was thinking about that last night.

About getting Uber shirts made?

Actually yes, seeing all those people with company shirts on last night made me think about it...

I got some shirt ideas. Will get on it when I get back from my slacation next week.

You're the artist! I know even your crappiest idea woul be better than my best idea. You're that awesome.

Alright...slack time is over...we need shirts and hoodies for the awesome people in the office that would rock the hoodies