C3 post the 30th
At the second biannual Central Creativity Convention of spring 2009, my first C3, I stopped at 29 booths over two days. This equals 30 posts in the C3 forum. Because my stamina has expired, I approach the exit from the convention. My joy at the acquisition of my loot from the 29th booth becomes a different feeling as I walk to the exit gate.
When I walked into the convention, I was not prepared for the overload of so many new games and demonstration, plus numerous screenshots and SPC dumps. As I moved from booth to booth, I gave less commentary, and commentary of less worth. Most of my latter posts were the same: I tried your game, I played one level, now I need to go to the next booth. If I wrote 30 posts, I must not have checked my writing like I would normally do. I wonder, did I misspeak to anyone on this convention floor? Did I post something that I wish to not have posted? Now C3 feels like Forum Games or World of Insanity, just another excuse to increase my post count by 30.
I do have my C3 bag, holding 19 new SMW hacks. I also have
album of C3 screenshots by playing each of those 19 games on the convention floor. I did not learn much from my brief experience with each game; I need more time to play these games; I need many more days.
I remind myself that I am also a
Super Mario World hacker, since almost two and one-half months, and I have eligibility to have my own booth on this convention floor, which I chose not to have, because my project is not ready, and might not be ready one year from now.
I glance at the nearby entrance, where even now, though C3 is about to close, eager attendees enter the convention floor to find the latest news from the convention. I walk through the exit gate and "cut the tape". I notice that this gate appears more like a midway gate than a goal gate. This is well, because midway tape is near the floor, but goal tape would be too high up, because I cannot jump as high as Mario. I leave the convention. C3 is over.Hacking Super Mario World since 28 February 2009