Well as promised I'm showing off some of the stuff from that Top secret project thing.
I think this was actually one of the sets that people generally liked enough over there at top secret. Weither it made it into the final game or not, I dunno. It was also one of the first things I posted up for top secret.
I think though that it was pretty earily in the project where people where still trying to get everything settled in at the time, but as the weeks went on, people started gradually acting differently.
Part of the thing that went on with Top Secret Project was the merit system, where people would vote you up or down depending on your contributations, but the whole voting thing came at a price.
The contest was that whomever did the most work, and contributed the most would be able to gain the prize of making your own game with the help of a full on professional staff, so because of this voting thing, and everyone basically had a feel of being "better" than the other guy, it was hard to get people to cooperate correctly.
Because of this there was always that feeling that people where just pushing you aside even when you offered to help or DID help them.
It felt even more true when they started making everyone work in groups, and have one guy "represent" the whole group.