It has been ages since I posted here. Bad me...
Lots has been happening. I have had meetings with business gateway and have a written business plan. The plan looks good. The game feels like the content is taking personality.
The content production is slow. Not dedicating enough time to it. It doesn't help that with creative output, time is not enough. It has to be the right time, when you are in the flow and the ideas are burning in your head... That is the tough bit, when you take away all the time spent working for other people and travelling and doing parent stuff.. You don't have much left to spend on stuff like this.
So I need to be harder on myself. Back to getting stuff done over lunch at work. Just has to be done. No more excuses....
I am almost done the entire first plot quest. That is comprised of 2 essential quests and 1 optional quest. I still have to map the final level out. I have come up with a great plan, a great level concept.... It really is great.... But.... There is always a but....
The idea will be fie times as much work as my original thoughts. So it is going to take ages to map the level out, five separate entrances and ways through the dungeon to confront the Goblin King in his throne room. Five.... Why??? I have worked in tot he social section of the quest that 5 of the goblin tribes have sided with the returned king. The rest are far too busy trying to remain peaceful and keep the Goblin Kingdom in one piece.
So yeah, five different tribes guarding the king, five ways in, five different tribes with differing attributes and skills and levels.. All of which have to have a flip side, a realm of the dead variation..... This is probably going to be more work that everything else so far.
I will probably be sensible and cut that down to three. But it means going back and editing all of the social phase sections that mention the five tribes and rewrite it all.
I hope to have the company up and running as an actual entity in about 3-4 weeks. It may get pushed back until after the new year. I will just have to wait and see. Business start up can wait until more content is produced and the game is nearing completion.
I am very excited and will count the whole project and artistic success if I produce something I really like playing! Then I can sit back and go 'we made that, it is great'. Lots of money would also be a good thing!
I am going to go and try to chill my brain out and not explode at the thought of having to design this dungeon. I need a bigger table and bigger bits of graph paper..... Or a useful program for doing level mapping on. So far just using paper has been easier.
Someone please hit me if I don't update this blog once a fortnight, left it far too long this time.
Cheers,
Al
P.S. apologies for really bad spelling and typing, been up all night and have had noooooo sleep.