It's been awhile, has it?
I do have to give yawl credit, to those who stuck around with me since 2020, with the first ever concept of my fangame I am dearly sorry for the long wait of finally starting game dev properly!
It only took me a few shitty attempts at story writing, game direction (and being a director), and so many other factors that are just.... meh that don't need to be brought up.
For a while, I've learned that game design and development is NOT EASY, trust me. You may be a programmer, designer, 2d/3d artist, and even director sure; But game making will still be a pain sometimes, and that's ok!
It will take time, patience. It will be tiring, exhausting, leaving you and your team (if you do) feeling burnout, having artblock.
But in the end, as long as you still have fun with it majority of the time, or even take your time with these kinds of things, you will be ok!
I've gotten advice from all kinds of former devs in the industry, studied and took notes on what to do and NOT to do with game dev. And even use just plain common sense to my thinking process, and somehow am here with Myth-fits.
The biggest mistakes in my last attempts of making a fangame was:
A. Never use my director role properly.
and
B. Plan things out properly.
All my previous attempts, I thought making a plan, or just coming up with ideas along the way was super smart, that way I could never mess up in the concept stages and change smth last minute, or too late in dev.
Or never using my director role to the fullest, and just danced around thinking that being a director was somewhat easy, thinking that giving roles to most of the team while they did most of the work that I wanted done specifically, and ending up not being consistent with plans, fell apart; Causing the team to fall apart, or stand in a stalemate.
I am going to change that now, after what seems like 6-7 months of planning, Myth-fits will do what SALVAGED, T.H.f.F, etc. could never do, or never be.
And that it will be finished.
Idc if it takes a year or 2, or even if things go wrong, I want this game to be finished, to have something!
I've made a name for myself before, on a small scale, but now I need to step up, and take it to the next level.
Along with some peeps that are helping along the way, that I forever grateful for.
Because without them, we wouldn't gotten THIS much progress done with characters!
So, I am ready to do this one last time.
We've gotten this far, we can't give up now.
I hope you guys are prepared, because I sure am, and I hope to NOT disappoint.
Let there be light.
-Sass
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