Frosh Week Memories: Fun with a Digital Camera

Rob and Craig write: Here are some great shots from Frosh Week '97. They were taken with the Nikon Coolpix 300, a fabulous little device [ed: for its time!] without which the game could never have been.

Oil Thigh at the Highland Games behind Vic Hall.

Queen's Bands arrive on the Highland Games Scene.

The Drum Major busts a move.

Greasing up Sci '01's Pole. I was too... excited... to pause for a moment and take off my GPA.

See that guy? He's gonna wish he'd sobered up before making the same mistake. I bet his jacket still smells a bit like mold, and you can still feel the goopy lanolin. Ah well, it'll give it character.

Mud at the pit.

Pitside Fun with a Digital Camera

Here's what the pit looked like a few minutes before the Upper Year students were allowed in...

...And here's what it looked like a few minutes after.

We took pictures of this podium; it's used in the game.

Man, that was a fabulous place to watch the action.

An eager upper-year student jumps the gun. I think that might be Derek Crawford, Sci '99... he's the guy diving into the pit in the credits sequence in The Pole Game.

The pyramid builds up again. It took the Frosh 28 attempts at building a pyramid to reach the tam that year. I took notes to help improve the AI.

We needed shots of mud and water for the game.

The pit you see in the game doesn't exist. It's a composite of dozens of shots like this. The splashing came from actual pit splashing...

...and the ripples came from shots like this.

Al "Pop Boy" Burchell and friends savor their part in the Frosh victory.

The pit calms down.

Deconstructing the site. We decided to leave the orange fence out of the game, 'cuz in videogames, nobody gets hurt.

The cleanup (and the mayhem) continues.

Recognize that ambulance?

I thought I might include these guys in the background of the Game, but I didn't want to end up in jail.

P.S. Looks like the Pole Chase is no more.

Another familiar sight from The Game.