2013 Lessons Learned: The Negative

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by Kidney

Maybe I'm weird, but I actually liked sitting through a few hours of talking and animations and whatnot [snip]

Yeah, that is a little odd.

Our team doesn't have a close local kickoff, and traveling out of state for that event isn't practical when we can watch the same animation at home and then immediately use our home facility to start working on the game. So kickoff is one part of the year when we get to make our own decisions about how much introductory material is appropriate. We keep the kickoff on in the background and wait for the good parts. I've watched the whole thing a couple of times, and I end up zoning out for parts of it. Planning the kickoff warrants the same type of editorial restraint as planning Einstein - while the messages might be 100% on the money, the attention span of the average viewer (adults included) is finite.