When bosses have assessed my work over the years it’s usually taken the form of nervously watching their cursor bounce around a Google Doc. They would delete overwrought lines here, add detail to unclear statements there, and sometimes strike our intros that weren’t getting to the point – thank goodness I learned my lesson there. It’s a nerve-wracking and humbling experience (especially when you’ve managed to misspell ‘RTS’).
Naturally, every job has its own assessments, but the level designers working on Age of Empires at Ensemble Studios faced a novel one: studio head Tony Goodman’s lunch break.
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