You enter a dark room. You see a desk with several computer monitors. There is a Creative Director here.

> look director

The Creative Director is slouching in his chair, his pasty features alit by the monitor glow. He doesn’t seem to notice you.

> look desk

The desk is covered with sticky-notes and game books.

> look books

There are stacks of faction books for the awesome table-top game WARMACHINE.

> examine sticky notes

The scattered sticky-notes seem to have hand-written messages scribbled on them.

> read notes

Deciphering the scrawl, you identify them as to-do messages. You glance at some of the multi-colored notes:
“Test Trenchers pathfinding to waypoints.”
“Put in VFX for Arcane Blast.”
“Review animatic for Cutscene 2.”
“UI for focus is too “zappy”
“GET EVERYTHING READY FOR GENCON!”

> look monitor

The various monitors show a development environment for the WARMACHINE game in production. A note on the monitor reads, “Remember Scott, F5 launches the game, F4 CLOSES the game!”

> press F5

You cannot play the game without a controller.

> look for controller

The Game Director seems to be clutching a game controller.

> say hello

His blurry eyes and drooling visage are a sure signs he is mentally elsewhere.

> poke Director

Poke him with what?

> poke director with stick

With a flurry of pokes, the Creative Director begins to show signs of life – slapping at your stick and shouting, “Gyaa! What do you want!?”

> Ask for controller

The Creative Director rubs his blood-shot eyes, stammering “How long do we have until GenCon? Huh? The Controller? Sorry, man, I gotta get this demo working. We only have a couple weeks left! The Trenchers aren’t pathfinding, the Juggernaut is still…”

> poke director with stick

“Ow OW! OK OK! Here’s the controller… geesh…”
You receive the game controller.

> press F5

The WARMACHINE GenCon demo begins. You are overwhelmed at the overall awesomeness of the game in production. You are left with a longing to tell your friends about it.

> talk Game Director

He grins and says, “Glad you liked it, but the real demo won’t be shown until August 7th at GenCon. We should have even more to show then…”

> reset system clock to 08-07-2010

I’m afraid I can’t do that…

> pout