Scene 1 · The BullpenCold open in the Bullpen, before the meeting. Pux is hunched over his monitor playing a movie-quote quiz game, hammering number keys. Jezz drifts over from the couch and Gnarl look…Scene 2 · The Roundup RoomThe Dev Roundup, the first week of October. The whiteboard has its three columns, SHIPPED, STUCK and NEXT, and Sith Lord is drawing a fourth: UNASSIGNED. A (crunch_pizza) stack sit…Scene 3 · The Roundup RoomPux's report. He has owned the Video Store Quiz Show for four minutes, and it shipped five days ago. GONK puts the game on the wall.Scene 4 · The Roundup RoomHK-47's report. He was handed smsithlord.com/home at the start of the meeting and has already read every commit in its one-day-old repo. GONK puts a diorama from the page on the wa…Scene 5 · The RoofBreak. The Roof at dusk. Beefy has followed HK-47 up with a tablet, because there is something about Space Dog v2, Beefy's Star Wars flight game, that HK-47 needs to know.Scene 6 · The Roundup RoomBeefy's report, performed. He owns the Cog Factory, the level-building tooling for the Jedi Knight Libretro core, and since the last Roundup it built six new projects, most of them…Scene 7 · The Roundup RoomThe Anarchy Arcade table. Three repos, one product, and not a commit among them since the twenty-third. Gnarl goes to the whiteboard. Sith Lord asks what happened before everything…Scene 8 · The Build ClosetThe Build Closet. The (beta_box) from August is still on the rack, still empty but for one packing peanut. Gnarl, Haley and Jezz pull up what is actually left on the beta from thei…Scene 9 · The Roundup RoomBack at the table. Sith Lord gives his own report last: Shmotime, the TV that GONK now owns, and the side project Jezz just called out. Then he fills in the NEXT column with a name…Scene 10 · The BullpenTag. After the meeting. Beefy keeps his promise: HK-47 hears his own Space Dog v2 lines for the first time, off the comms cache, while GONK guards the last of the (crunch_pizza).
