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Current situation and new ideas
🕑 Added 2024-08-24 02:23:06 +0000 UTCPhew, I have been panicking a bit the last 2 days, but im ok.
I think I can get the funds to help the illustrator, she doesn't have many incomes so I feel responsible for that.
Ah well, other things I have been thinking in, since I took so long to show substantial advances.
Would you like to play the game this month? There are many builds, but I warn you, they are not fun to play, and they dont work for bug-testing, I'll explain you why next:
There are 4 types of game builds I have, all with their ups and downs:
1.The ones coded by the first programmer: Those builds have many features and detail, but they are not very polished and have many mistakes, since the programmer did not understood very well what I wanted and had different quality standards than I. I'm no longer working with that programmer, so bug-testing his work would not help, for reasons I will explain later.
2.The ones coded by the second programmer: Those builds are coded perfectly, and control very smoothly and responsive, and the programmer and I were in the same page, but it haves very few features, and feels very early and incomplete. I want to go back working with that programmer but I don't have the funding to pay him.
3.The ones coded by me: Those builds are the ones that feel closer to an actual game, with many details, a bunch of enemies, and lose conditions, but it is very buggy and badly programmed, it feels very inconsistent and rushed because despite having many details there are a lot of things that I did not knew how to implement or fix without ruining the rest of the game, the code is a complete arcaic mess.
4. And lastly, the builds made by the current programmer, the programming in there is good, and the game feels very nice to control. But it is a very early build, it barely haves sprites. I would like to continue working with this programmer if we can't get the second, currently he is just coding every once in a while instead of doing it diligently, because right now I cannot pay him, since I'm saving the money to contribute to the illustrator's surgery. But he will continue to help me even if I cant pay him, because he is my friend.
You might be thinking
"Why dont you give the editable files of the most advanced builds to the current programmer so he doesn't have to start from scratch?"
Like me, he is self taught, and not skilled enough to work with someone's else code. Still what he makes from scratch controls very well thanks to his perfectionism and attention to detail.
I dont like the idea of releasing those playable builds, but you deserve a reward for so much patience and support, and I dont have many ideas right now.
Aside from that
Where are the animations?
I have been working in different youtube animation projects that would contribute to the game while working in comissioned work. Since I have been so busy working by comission I could not focus all my time in finishing one and posting it.
But right now I have like 5 animations done mid way, I want to have many ready at the same time so I can post them consistently the following months instead of finishing one and immediatelly begin working in another one. Would you like to see the assets I made for those animations? I did not wanted to spoil them by just sharing them with no context, but again, I feel like I should give you something back in this times we are facing.
The illustrator and the comic project we were working in.
She says she can still work in that, since she can draw with one eye clossed to reduce the symptoms of her strabismus, I told her to take it easy and only work if she feels like doing it.
About that comic, we currently have 20 pages almost done, they only need the backgrounds and some minor edits in the drawings she made. I don't want to spoil them, but I could try showing you some of that too.
Would you like to know the overall plot of the comic project?
Well I will read your answers, and thanks you for your support, I will have more news very soon.
Comments
Will5473
I’d be happy with whatever you have to show!
Konbro The Inverted Snake
I’m happy with whichever one you think is best.
