INTRO
Hello again, this is Wendell Preston, the person with the team of one trying to land a job affiliating himself with Nintendo! If you've heard of me you're probably sick of me by now (quite frankly I'm getting rather sick of myself -_-) so I'll get straight to the point! In December of last year I posted a game dubbed The Adventures of Felix Fox - Dream Master. I said that would be my last game but ...with tiny amount of encouragement I decided to continue game development (Like I could quit if I wanted to). I'm hoping it'll pay off : )
PLAN
My latest plan was considered to be masterful at first. The Adventures of Felix the Fox - Tandem Tales. It was supposed to be a compilation of several different tales. I'd add network play, build a community, add a tale here and there and eventually end up where a want to be, a second party developer for Nintendo (If not first : >)! As I write this that plan doesn't seem very unrealistic to me but... yeah you know
THE PROBLEM
Each game I make I always learn new things in the process. Just recently I learned you can declare a struct early on, like you do with functions! Anyway, as I near the end of development I realize how much of a pain it is to develop for the game mostly due to all the new features added! It's so stressful when you add new things that you'll never use again and in the end production stifles.
THE SOLUTION
My plan is, instead of building up my game, I'll retrogress a bit. I'd much rather have a clean errorless not up to standards game, than a glitchy, hard to develop for, high-quality game. I think this solution will more than certainly take me places.
SO FAR
Overall I'm partially satisfied with what I've done so far. Then again, I've never made a game I liked after I finished it (This is my 5th demo since I started (late 2004)).My current plan is to release a tutorial, and maybe a goofy test stage just to show how things would go if I didn't
try to polish up so much. Failure is staring to take it's toll after all these years but, judging by the knowlegdge I get nothing is a complete failure.
THE FUTURE
After this project, I'm going to find a job, move out, upgrade my computer fully design my next project with no hidden new techniques, and start over. Does anyone else who develops games by themselves have this much trouble 9_9? Nonetheless, I as always regret nothing.
One of the best ideas I've had is to setup everyting I use into seperate Applications. I've already planned out how I'll have a
-Character studio
-Animation stuido
-Object studio
-And the ol’ Level Editor. Shich will be redone due to terrible organization!
This seems like the perfect way to speed up development time! How do the professionals do it anyhow?
YOUR THOUGHTS
I've been working on this .... 9 months, although I was working on something else for someone else for 4 months during (new techniques prove it wasn't a waste of time : >, other than pay of course). I plan to release this sometime between or a bit after
October 14-18. I'd really appreciate any thoughts anyone has because, I'm so stressed and confused right now :{. Thanks for reading!
PS. Still Need Music >_<
