October Goals & Progress Thread

[mlogan]

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Happy birthday Goals and Progress Thread! Last October was the first monthly thread and I hope many of you have seen significant progress in the last year.​

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So then, let's get on with it for October! ​

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[Seriel]

Is it October already...?

Spoiler

Anyway... my 16th Birthday is soon, so.. yeah.

Apart from that, my goal for this month is to start a new project

 

[Schlangan]

Already october


Well let's go for the goals. Hmm...


- Completing mission 11


- Starting/doing mission 12


- Adding an option to accelerate the ATB bar.


- Once for all, I hope, maybe, who knows, it's possible, perhaps, redoing all the facesets


That will be enough for now

 

[Ms Littlefish]

Lord, can my goal for the month be?

• Not get sick every few days.
• Not have every member of my family ask me to travel across the country for probably about the 7th or 8th time this year. Seriously, you can come to my house too. c: c: c: c: c:

Captain Introvert, flies away!

 

[mlogan]

Is it October already...?

Spoiler

Spoiler

Anyway... my 16th Birthday is soon, so.. yeah.

Apart from that, my goal for this month is to start a new project

No, but if I wait until October 1 my time, people will say I'm not posting early enough. So, I try to stay on top of it and give each month a couple of days' head start.

 

[HawkZombie]

I turn 35 on the 31st.

I want to have two main things either done, or to have made significant progress on:

A novel

My first game story (including story, plot, character dialog and flavor text).

I have a feeling I'm either going to go mad in the next 30+ days, or finally break free of my constant state of self-doubt.

 

[Schlangan]

No, but if I wait until October 1 my time, people will say I'm not posting early enough. So, I try to stay on top of it and give each month a couple of days' head start.

I won't do it again, I promise

 

[BlackRoseMii]

Alright, let's see what goals I'll reach this time.

- event my main game up to the last boss (finally!)

- finish the dialogue for my side project

- start working on busts for my side project/do anything graphics related at all.

- work on my tasks for other peoples projects.

I hope I get at least the first one done until the 20th, since university will start again around that time.

 

[bgillisp]

October already? Where did the time go? Anyways, here are my goals:

-Map the hospital where the end of Chapter 5 takes place in. Even though I will not need it this soon, I need it so I can do the next part of the goal

-Edit the intro to use the new hospital map, instead of the piece of it I drew for the cutscene.

-Edit the flow of the intro and early Chapter 1 to fix up the minor plot hole that was introduced as the plot developed

If I can get those three done, then I will release Version 1.03 of the demo.

If there is time left:

-Finish off the sequence in Chapter 5 involving the military base. It needs an underground map, and the base needs to be evented. Otherwise, it is ready to go. Might be able to work on that this weekend even.

-Map the next city that the party goes to. This is the last city before the hospital, but I don't think there is enough time to connect all of them before October ends.

 

[Hollow]

Well, I've unfortunately missed the last few months' progress threads because college + moving + other IRL shenanigans happened. Here's to hoping I can roll back into the game-making groove this month! 

Anyways, my goals for this month as I start on a new project:

• Work on blocking out skills for all 7 party members.
• Write dialogue and plan event movements for the opening.
• Complete walking sprites for party members + characters in the opening.

Some other nice-to-haves:

• Fully event the encounter system.
• Plan layout and potential mobs for the first level.

 

[mlogan]

I won't do it again, I promise

Hahaha!! Believe me, you're not the only one!

 

[Vox Novus]

I'm, going to be ambitious with my goals for this month:

-Finish the first segment of my super hero game, including battle balancing, mapping and artwork, etc...

-Win the IGMC

 

[optimum45]

October Goals

Build and Install "Book" overlays to replace current text box "reading" in Prologue, and build books for the first three issues as planned.

Finish #1 - Final  

Finish #2 - Mapping, Core Eventing

Begin #3 - Mapping

I lost two weeks last month to an illness, but I will get back on track.  I still have until the end of the year, and a big push is coming.  (Winter)  

 

[Sharm]

This month:

• finish Cartograph
• get Ace working on this computer (where did I put that key?!)
• make some sprites
• do a good amount of work on the next pack (not sure which yet)

 

[DragonVine]

I have returned. Sort of.

I had a bit of a ridiclous month in September. I moved to a new place. I started classes for university, and already did a ton of reading/writing for it, and my comptuer crashed. Followed by my other computer (my backup) barely working.

I'm going to attempt to Dr. Frankenstein one together with the parts I have that are still working. If that fails, I'll have to buy a new one soon. So at the moment, I've made little to no progress in my actual development of my game. Thankfully, no data was lost, as I'm pretty good at backing stuff up.

I did get some more writing done for the story though, so there's at least that.

Goals for this month:

• Get a working computer
• Get a ton of assignments done (already in progress!)
• Finish a few of my sprites (when I get said working comptuer)

 

[TherainED]

I died. Couldn't keep up.

Tried to do things. My computer died. Couldn't keep up.

Stopped doing things. My internet died. Couldn't keep up.

And this weekend Imma be testing Dark Souls 3, so, yeah, death's still present.

Oh, well. Let's see what can I do, apart from waiting.

Spoiler

1st - The 42 characters idea...no, actually, no. I gotta wait for that one.

2nd - Meridian's Travel is...wait. No, it's not. It's another one in the queue. A different queue, but still.

3rd - The blog. The blog works. I'm sure I can squeeze something out.

4th - Ready stream stuff for the next Vermintide beta period. I don't know if I should be even trying, but my doubts have been outright ignored so...yeah. Prepare for the most dissapointing and frustrating stream of the decade. Inb4 october 13 I think.

[/salty]

 

[mlogan]

I suppose I should post my goals.

My biggest goal would be to get the first episode of the Kirk series released by the end of November. Ideally, I'd like to think that maybe I could get an episode out every month or so, but I need some custom sprites and stuff that I think will make this first one take longer.  But then when I have those, I'll be set.

So, my big goal for the month is to halfway finish the first episode? I also need to find a way to continue my knowledge in JavaScript. I'd like to be well practiced by the time MV comes out.

My goals for the rest of this week are:

• Get tilesets set up arranged like I want them for the Kirk series.
• Begin working on sprites for the Kirk series (probably use Mack sprites/templates for customs)
• Finish mapping the ship interior

 

[TheOriginalFive]

My goals?

Try to figure out which of my purchased DLC goes well with the modern resources I picked up from this forum.

Think of a proper setting for the robot army background.

Start cracking on some NPCs, even though I ended up drawing pixel characters barely related to the Mechanical Armageddon.

 

[Kes]

@mlogan

I especially like this month's banner.

After the disastrous lack of progress last month because of RL, I hope to get back on track.

Goals for this month

• Rework significant aspects of the story - I was going to kill off the first actor, but have decided to keep him after all.  I am also changing the 'why' the party ends up (geographically) where they do.
• Flesh out the character of actor 3 and tidy up the skills for her.
• Map the first dungeon, which inevitably means -
• Tile editing
• Event the first dungeon.

 

[Kyuukon]

Basically, finish up my first (and commercial) game, including the trailer so I get everything ready to get on Steam greenlight :3

I have lot of polishing to do and four elemental levels/dungeons/boss fights. Maybe implement some kind of gamepad compatibility. Seems like motivation is slowly making its way back since the IGMC