Projects projects everywhere.
Soon I'll be swamped at work, at least in the short term. For this moment though, I have a little free time.
With that time, I find ways to keep myself productive.
Idling projects:
MWDA Game - you know the score here. Just not on a primary burner right now.
My book - I read a piece by George RR Martin about how he hated working for deadlines and wasn't going to finish his newest book in time for the show. Well... yeah. I don't know if I will ever finish this book series. That last bit of bad criticism really put me in a sour mood and I don't think I want to just jump right back to that.
Other books - Book writing feels so tedious, you know? I guess I enjoy shorter pieces but not so short they fit in a magazine's scant 7-9 pages. Novellas just don't sell and expanding them into novels is a boring chore. I have enough of those as of current, thank you very much.
Active projects:
Sci-Fi game in game guru. I've been advancing my toolkit steadily towards my goal of completing a quality low budget title. I made my own skies and placed them on the tgcstore (available here: https://en.tgcstore.net/artist/190502 ).
They are selling well, which is a welcome surprise.
I'm waiting for the sci-fi kit coming from TGC; they have some excellent enemy characters in the kit. The rest is pretty meh. But the characters will be worth it.
I'm working on learning 3D modelling. It's an experience but coming along nicely. There's a lot to remember in blender but overall I'm surprised at how easy it is to develop organic or complex shapes.
It actually gives me a whole new perspective on model development and I will be sure to incorporate that into my reviews.
I've started putting together asset libraries (my usual first step before making a level) for the next few levels in my game. I want the pacing of my game to be very different from other GG games. Faster, more overwhelming is the goal. I want it to be DIFFICULT. Too many of these homebrew games are ridiculously simple and easy. I want to incorporate my lessons from the Doom series into this and try to produce some interesting 'kill puzzle' challenges which will force the player to think. A lot of these homebrew Game-Guru and FPS Creator games tend to have a very easy and simple game play style which I'm sure suits the creator. But if you're trying to challenge gamers, you need to present them a challenge.
That's part of what I want to do. I also need to get some 3D modelling under my belt so I can offer custom models as opposed to just more store bought stuff.
I got some new assets too, since Voodoo updated his stuff. It gave me an idea for a later area but I need to let that stew for now. Next stop for me is building the medlab and engineering/bridge sections.
I've got a few of my custom characters from the charactermaker done but most of them are throwaways. Only 2-3 are worth keeping (such as the cyberknight, who came out AWESOME).
The level flow is coming together.
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