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+title = "PiWeek VIII"
+date = 2015-07-18
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+> While writing this post all the content was deleted because of a hardware
+problem and sadly this is less that I wrote originally. :(
+
+This week have been awesome. After two years I finally went back to the
+Personal Innovation Week for a second time, and as motivated as it were, I'm
+planning to repeat at the end of the year. For those who don't know what a
+ΠWEEK is, [its site](http://piweek.tumblr.com/) explains it very well:_ ΠWEEK
+/paɪ wiːk/ is an original idea by Kaleidos and it consists in allowing
+employees from participant technology companies to leave their ongoing work in
+standby and dedicate an entire week to personal projects. The plan is to enjoy
+a ΠWEEK every six months, particularly in December and July, and allow
+employees to play and innovate_.
+
+Putting it simple: you can either present you own project for people to hop in
+or you can join anothers team project and create something, play with new
+technologies and of course, learn new stuff. This time the teams and projects
+were incredible, I meet up with the Kaleidos team again after a long time (too
+long!), played some Winjammers (and got beat every single time), but of
+course, learn a few new things as you do every time you play around.
+
+## Our team
+
+![](piweek-viii-team.jpg)
+
+From left to right, top to bottom:
+
+  * Ramiro Sanchez ([@rsanchezbalo](https://twitter.com/rsanchezbalo)): Project leader
+  * Juan Francisco Alcantara (no-twitter man): Front-end
+  * Andres Moya ([@amoyafoss](https://twitter.com/amoyafoss)): Back-end
+  * _Masles Roy_ ([@maslesroy](https://twitter.com/maslesroy)): Illustration
+  * Felipe Martin ([@fmartingr](https://twitter.com/fmartingr)): Back-end
+  * Antonio de la Torre ([@adelatorrefoss](https://twitter.com/adelatorrefoss)): Front-end
+
+## Our project
+
+![](guild-empire_9xA43PS.png)
+
+Our project, designed by Ramiro and some other friends is a really complex
+game in which you take control of a guild and it's guild members playing
+against other player's guilds.
+
+Each turn, a player send every guild member to do some actions (line wood-
+cutting, praying, breaking a leg to another guild member, etc) and that action
+is dice-rolled witch success/failure results. Each member have it's own stats
+and adquired conditions (buffs/debuffs) and so on. The MVP idea is to adquire
+reputation and the guild who have the most reputation in turn 20 wins, but
+there's a 30 page document with a lot of non-developed stuff for the game.
+
+It's was really fun to make stuff different than my daily job routine, using
+libraries (or just plain python types) than django. There's a world out there
+and even if it was little things you end up always learning something new.
+
+## Honorable mentions
+
+Even if my team end up winning this ΠWEEK, there was projects that also show
+how much can you achieve in just five days with a smaill team, my personal two
+favourites were:
+
+  * **Zombie time!!**, a multiplayer turn-based-and-real-time zombie survival game. This was expected since I love zombie games. They managed to get an almost fully playable game in just five days, be sure to check it out because it seemed really fun.
+  * **UXBox**, an interactive wireflaming tool created because there aren't any real open source options out there.
+
+But of course, there was a lot of projects and people working there, be sure
+to check it out in the [official piweek blog](http://piweek.tumblr.com/) or
+[in the piweek github group](https://github.com/piweek).
+
+## Conclusion
+
+![](piweek-viii-presentations.jpg)
+
+The ΠWEEK is an awesome event and more companies should start leting their
+people use a percentage of the time into personal projects, learning new stuff
+and improving their knowledge. Or you can just join the ΠWEEK two weeks a year
+so awesome people start making awesome stuff.
+
+Really, if you are a developer and can join this event, do it, and if you are
+their boss, **let them do so!**
+
+_Post pictures by
+[@bameda](https://twitter.com/bameda/status/621329367780753408),
+[@yamila_moreno](https://twitter.com/yamila_moreno) and
+[@ilopmar](https://twitter.com/ilopmar/status/622002398341545984)_