Every Saturday afternoon we meet at Kranzky’s house to catch up and discuss what the different Rockethands have been up to for the week.  We usually cover a large range of topics from company updates to industry news to reminiscing about that one time Kranzky Jr talked to Brad on the phone.  It was apparently a very good phone call.

Somewhere along the way though, every meeting will come to a grinding halt as the five programmer-types start talking about pythons and entities and capitals Cs with multiple pluses.  I’ve come to recognise the signs that one of these momentum-busting powwows is in fruition; generally I will have already spent the last two minutes daydreaming about how I’m next going to make someone’s head explode with my brand new Ambassador, and Simon has at least half a page doodled over, luxurious moustaches included.

He sure does love moustaches, our Simon.

We’ve come to anticipate and capitalise on these rare moments when there’s no meddling fiddlery from the more technologically savvy of the group.  These sub-meetings generally start with our traditional greeting*, including the Secret Non-Programmer Handshake, and from there we move on to the important stuff, like drawing moustaches and talking about how many character concepts we can improve upon by adding more moustaches.

Of course these little chats only end up lasting a few minutes before one of the sensitive programmer-types realises there’s talking going on that they’re not involved in, but lucky for us our ideas are as concise as they are luxurious.

 *”Hi Non-Programmer One.” “Hi Non-Progammer Two.”