Write, review, trash, talk, refine, review…

So you have noticed that a considerable amount of time has passed since my last update. I wish I could say that we are in full pre-production, but sadly I can’t.

We eventually realized that, although we had the same basic elements in mind, the bigger picture of how they all hang together was amiss. So we sat down and just talked about all the concepts, ideas, fun details, scopes that we remembered having talked about and wrote them down again, in no order.

We sorted and rephrased until the sentences meant only what we wanted to say, no more and definitely no less. It turned out that, the big picture had changed quite a bit. Which is good, as now we at least have a picture. We showed the draft to our dear partners at ML who received it with interest and, to my delight, with additional suggestions.

Currently I working those open issues and suggestions into the pitch, let’s see where this goes.

Lessons learned: do this sooner than any prototype. Try to allocate as much time as possible for this, and do it with the whole team. (In our case that’s two people :)

No reason to have people working on anything else at this stage anyhow.