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Subject: What do you guys think the "Milestone" is?
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From the last week's update:

"Dave and I are also working on cleaning up a whole slew of UI in time for the milestone."
"Anyway, way too much to do, currently 38 bugs on my plate for this milestone. Gotta get back to work!"
"Steve Cotton, the newest member of our multiplayer art team, was just showing me the purple underbelly of a CENSORED, one of our multiplayer levels for the upcoming milestone"

I think the "milestone" is the end of the "alpha" stage of Halo 2, and into the "beta" stage.
What do you guys think?

  • 06.22.2004 8:52 PM PDT
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I think you may be on to something. The game is probably almost finished by now, it just needs to be ironed out and teased and tricked

  • 06.23.2004 7:25 AM PDT
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Sounds about right to me and I have no idea.

  • 06.23.2004 9:02 AM PDT
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Friday, the 20th of February's Update:

The team has a big milestone coming up. A milestone is a thing invented by a grown-up about twenty years ago to make sure that programmers (in those days, fragrant hippies with bits of cheese and mice in their beards) quit sucking on bongs long enough to actually finish programming a game. These days of course, a programmer is a very different animal. Taut, lean and ripped, with cat-like grace and deadly martial arts skills, they'd be Special Forces infiltration operatives were it not for their l337 haxorz skillz.

The object of a milestone is to first, prove that a team of 60 people hasn't simply been sitting around watching Spongebob and winging Twinkies at each other, and second - to produce a reasonably complete section of the game. In this instance, it's a very important level from later in the game (don't read too much or too little into that kidz, we don't always build levels in order).

The best thing about a milestone (apart from the fact that I just get to observe the process from the safe distortion of a beer glass) is that when it's done, we get to watch it and play it. Some of the biggest Halo geeks I've ever met are sitting right here, making it, and every time a milestone is complete, the guys here enjoy it every bit as much as you would.

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A milestone for Bungie is described as this, so it means more that a large chunk of the game is completed, and not necessarily "alpha" stage

Hope that helps

  • 06.23.2004 1:11 PM PDT