{"id":6263,"date":"2023-02-21T21:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T21:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/?p=6263"},"modified":"2023-02-21T21:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T21:11:55","slug":"february-near-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/february-near-misses\/","title":{"rendered":"February: Near misses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What I\u2019ve been working on recently<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aghhh. It really, really<\/em> sucks when something promising just doesn’t work out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I decided to shelve the 3D game I’ve been working on recently. At first, this game seemed to have a lot of potential: I love how it looks, and I love how it feels to be in. I love the dreamlike feeling of exploring a 3D space with a lot of verticality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I’ve learned to trust my gut about these things by now, and this one just wasn’t coming together like it should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought about sharing a playable build; but I think it’s a bit too wonky for that. So I just made a quick video instead:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Designing good levels for this was surprisingly hard. I was aiming for a particular kind of feeling here, and therefore had lots of rules about what I wanted to do (slow floaty movement; no enemies; a weird DOS energy mechanic that I was very attached to) and maybe too many constraints on what I didn’t want to do. So progress was really slow, and lots of ideas didn’t pan out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it was a fantastic learning project at least – I’ve learnt a ton of new stuff thanks to this! Maybe I’ll come back to eventually, who knows.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And is this process in the room with us right now<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I rebooted this whole monthly devlog thing, I knew at some point I was gonna have a post like this. Fact is, most of what I work on doesn’t work out, which sucks! I’ve learnt to just accept it as “the process”, because honestly I don’t feel like I really have a say in it anyway. It’s just how it works. Pfffftttttttt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok, well, back to the empty project file. I’ve got a clean slate now, which is exciting, and I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it yet. See you next month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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