May 26, 1989
Yesterday I showed Paul the skeleton. He was thrilled (it was his idea) and has been going around telling everyone about it. It’s paid off more than I could have imagined, in terms of boosting his enthusiasm about the whole project. Just goes to show you.
People in PD, art and marketing are starting to treat me differently. Brian is delighted and amused by the amount of work I take upon myself. (When I told Sophie today I’d like to take the box copy home and “play with it” over the weekend, Brian laughed out loud. “Sure, he said. “I’d like to have you ‘play’ with something I wrote.”)
Brian’s away all next week for CES and is leaving a lot of things in my hands – the final box copy, getting a beta version to QA, possibly the selection of the artist to do the box. I don’t know if it means anything, but I noticed that in the latest schedule Nancy made up, the blank for “Product Manager” now reads “Brian Eheler/Jordan Mechner.”
So I’m not just a programmer any more.
The bad part of all this, though, is that I only have about three hours a day to actually work on the damn thing.
