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XMark
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 Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:40 pm Post subject: Going back into action |
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It's been way too long since the last time I worked on my big game projects, so I've come to a decision: as soon as april begins, I'm going to be hitting the ARC Legacy again at full speed. Just thought I'd post this today instead of April 1 so nobody thinks I'm pulling an April Fools' prank.
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Terry
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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You know what I'd love to do at some point? Work on some major project for months on end without telling anybody, and release the amazing looking final version without warning on april the first. Just because it would be cool if there really was some amazing news on the 1st of april for once and nobody believed it because of that whole crying wolf thing.
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DanKirby
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You know what I'd love to do? Start a project and actually finish it. I don't think I've ever finished a major project of any kind in my life. It gets tiresome after a while, seeing all this unfinished stuff lying around.
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DeveloperX
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:02 am Post subject: |
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| DanKirby wrote: | | You know what I'd love to do? Start a project and actually finish it. I don't think I've ever finished a major project of any kind in my life. It gets tiresome after a while, seeing all this unfinished stuff lying around. |
I certainly know the feeling.
I have at least 30 unfinished game projects in my closet.
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DanKirby
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The worst thing is when I go back and look at one of my big projects and say "This sucks, no one's going to play this."
I got that from my Threads of Life project. The gameplay is so terrible due to the engine's limitations, it's barely playable. That and the fact that it's in DOS, so it doesn't even run correctly on this computer.
I'd like to modify the Shifter engine to work with ToL's game mechanics, but then I'd likely have to throw out all the content that was made for the old engine and start over.
And the story ties into other projects of mine, so I can't just totally give up on it. But making the game playable would take so much more work...ugh.
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Nephilim
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:19 am Post subject: |
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One thing you could try is starting over with a smaller-scope project, or de-scoping one of your big projects, just so you can get something out there. Having *something* out there is pretty motivational.
Something like...say...a compo?
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Ren
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Heh, was that a sacraments plug? Cunningly dropped.
I've got about 5 projects where I got as far as the battle engine - two of them were compo entries actually. I'm content for them to stay dead though - that way I can re-use the tiles and no-one will suspect a thing...
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Nephilim
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Shroomasta wrote: | | Heh, was that a sacraments plug? Cunningly dropped. |
Actually, it was a plug for the compo we're talking about starting up in another thread. But Sacraments *was* a compo entry, and having to de-scope to get it done in the time limit really did help me solve the never-finish problem.
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XMark
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Nephilim wrote: | One thing you could try is starting over with a smaller-scope project, or de-scoping one of your big projects, just so you can get something out there. Having *something* out there is pretty motivational.
Something like...say...a compo? |
I totally agree. Finishing Blorp Zingwag: Elf Detective totally inspired me to get shit done in The ARC Legacy. Of course, it helped that it was the same engine in development, so it was an efficient use of time.
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