Last Friday saw one of the many exciting events the MVX team takes part in – a Tech Day.
Tech days for the team mean freedom to pursue an idea or concept that until then, may have had to been put on the back-burner. We can work in teams or alone, and a number of unique projects have emerged due to it.
This time however, was a group effort – the very first MVX internal game jam! The idea behind this topic being a chance to create something from the industry that has such a big impact on our work – games. Every Tech Day has brought something to the table to benefit MVX, and this was no exception – the project the team decided to undertake was based on training a player on the different extinguisher types and what fires they should be used on. The concept was to create an interactive, multiplayer system that functioned similarly to the Man Vs Machine mode of Valve’s TF2.
Early networking prototype – pills and boxes!
Look at those particles!
The team ready to fight fire.
The team worked incredibly hard over 14 hours, and was able to produce a fully functional prototype – which we then got the entire office to play together!
It was a great day, and the team had a lot of fun working together. Far from finished, we’ve all decided to continue working on it in future, and look forward to sending it out and letting you all get to experience co-operative fire fighting!
