By TerrySo, did a bit more work on Pathways today. I’ve mapped out the entire thing and I reckon there’s about 70 rooms in total, which is a *lot* of artwork. Thankfully, my approach to things should make that kinda manageable. I’m more worried about the writing, which is really crucial to making this whole thing work (and which I always get kinda self conscious about). I could do with some betatesting help on that end, if anyone’s interested…
Turns out the Pathways demo ended up in the Ludum Dare megapack, which is really annoying – but I guess I can’t do much about that 🙁 I told a couple of people before the deadline that I was thinking of not submitting it and taking time to do it properly, and they all said the same thing: submit something for the deadline: you can always go back and polish it up later. So I did and then I went and played it the next morning and was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I’ve made a balls of it and now I’ve to be a total drama queen by withdrawing from the contest just because I don’t want that horribly bloated written-at-3am thing floating around out there making a mockery of a concept I’m very fond of…
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am I to infer from that final tag that everything you’ve said in life up until this point has been a rant, and that you’re about to enter an even more mellow phase ;P
and: chill.
chill? CHILL?
ok
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I’m in the same boat, actually. I really don’t like my ‘final game’, and I think I’m going to go away and work on that game properly (and leisurely).
I wouldn’t worry too much though, I think all LD stuff is taken with a pinch of salt. 🙂
Here’s a question though – I haven’t played yours yet. Would you advise I don’t, and wait for you do to something you’re willing to share?
I need to make a proper game dev blog of some sort… o_o
Ah, I’m not that worried about people playing the unfinished demo – I just kinda wish it wasn’t out there at all 🙁
Honestly, yeah, I would 🙂 It’s probably only going to be another couple of days and the difference between the two versions is going to be pretty huge 🙂
I’ve been reading your livejournal! Can’t comment over there because I don’t have a LJ account, but I’ve added it to my usual rounds 🙂
Emergency Bypass looks like it’s going to be pretty cool when it’s done, by the way. It’s pretty cool already 🙂
Speaking of which, I just spent lunchtime making trees for it! XD https://dock.livejournal.com/243749.html
Cheers Terry. I think it would be a good idea to have a ‘proper’ blog so that people can comment on though, LJ tends to take me out of the circle somewhat. ^_^ (even if it is just a mirror of my LJ!)
Interesting colour choices on the trees! Should be fun to see it come together visually…
Let me know if you do start a blog somewhere 🙂