Darude - Sandstorm
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I must now resume my “things that make me money” activities, and relegate game-mak to a day or two a week. Maybe a lil in the afternoon, but I usually work on “career” level stuff then too.
If you manage to make a game that people play for hours, then reminding them to take a break gives that “This game cares about me” feeling and also lowers chance of burnout with your game.
A good way to mix your own music? What's the learning curve on that?
Would it be better to pay a composer?
"Signature characters" - the mascots of your game. Cute, quirky, lovable, recognizable.
i.e.
Kirby, Disgaea prinnies, creepers, Sonic, Mario, DQ slimes, pikachu (all starters), chocobos.
You see what I'm saying.
Getchu one.
A video game has a brand attached to it.
No offence meant, but it is disadvantageous to use the default RM graphics due to the fact that they can correlate your game strongly to other RM games and whatever associations a user has with those unrelated games.
My minimap "works" but you see it is so laggy that I need to optimize it heavily. Tryna make a game here, not a slideshow.
Highly opinionated world-building mapping
Not. Enough. TIME.
A game is a lot like pasta.
Pasta is technically edible after a few minutes of boiling, if a bit chewy, not very nice.
If you cook it with patience, perhaps with some oil, at a rolling boil in salted water, drain it and add a nice sauce with some roasted vegetables, and present it on a beautiful plate, with beautiful cutlery on a beautiful table in a beautiful restaurant with beautiful sounds and scents; VERY NICE.
What a drag.
Recent threads, and my very poor algorithm for my minimap plugin have made me face the fact that I need to review algorithms and such.
Going through Cracking the Coding Interview now. I am so excited.
Todo:
Add fog of war
Add enemy indicators
Make window draggable
Optimise map drawing algorithm (5 seconds to load the map you see, so it's a... poo-poo algorithm)
Any suggestions?
I watched Vinland Saga recently. I really like the cultural world-building point that the young Danes are always idolizing war. They don't know about the tragedy of it, they only think of it as glorious. And for many of them, even seasoned warriors, they still have to come to terms with the fact that their vision of glory is an illusion, through pain.
This talk has really changed the direction of my thinking about where my game is going.
I found something that has broadened my horizons.
I'm such a little baby writer that everything I learn about broadens my horizons.
Yesterday I learnt about this thing called "rhyme" and I will use it to its fullest extent. A true revolutionary, I know.
Click on Transcript > Key Points
Season 11 – Writing Excuses
writingexcuses.com
NTS: The tint of the screen can make a tonal promise to the player, and amplify the emotions you want. Remember to use this.
Been trying to find, for lack of a better term, a system that allows me to easily consider flaws and what causes them in a character. I found a list of negative "affects and cognitions" which is inspirational in that way. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351545/
In writing my tile visualiser, I’ve written code that is useful for making a minimap.
So I’m making a minimap too
I’ll try to release it soon!
It will have fog of war
(Working on all of the plugins of my game in iterations and as needed, so most of them won’t be at a releasable point for a long time.) -
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