a Tale of how I failed really bad in focus, motivation and not procrastinating, lol.
What Happened
I could blame anything but the truth is that I procrastinated my gavedev studies/practice the whole month, there, I said that.
To explain it better, I had some things to do. I focused my afternoons on studying web development (I finished the course I was taking!) and on university related stuff (where I will also need web dev, that’s why I focused so hard on it), and I haven’t really had a significant progress in any aspect of game dev. I just continued a freelance project with a friend (I’m almost finishing it!)
Some days ago I went back to pixel art and I plan to practice like I did a month ago and get back to my music composition course.
Also, this month I really caught myself enjoying playing games and trying to analyze them, it’s been a long time since I haven’t had this much fun with games (I played Bloodborne all again in 3 days lol) so I decided just to enjoy it, it’s important to play when you want to be a game dev (but it should not interefere with work, sure). But the biggest problem for me is discipline, I’m just not really good with it. That being said, when I procrastine I think a lot, and with lots of thinking and lots of playing, I had a lot of new ideas.
New Ideas
Minesweeper: In JavaScript and Html/CSS, it would be nice to test my web development skills and I really like Minesweeper 🙂 Also, I could also develop an AI that plays Minesweeper if I develop my own version. I’m really into AI lately
Tibia: Tibia is a really old game that every player miss the good old days, when talking to some friends one suggested me to recreate the old Tibia (version 7.1 or 7.4). He was joking but I really thought about it, I already programmed things that are more complex than this game, I love C++/OpenGL programming, that would be a thing, I think that this would be a big project though, so probably that’s why I won’t mess with it, but I decided to write it here anyway.
Card Game: I always wanted to develop a card game, I’ve been seeing some “unwanted aspects” on the most famous card games at the moment (e.g. Hearthstone and Magic) and I thought something like: “What if I created a card game without these unwanted things?” – It’s also a big project, but who knows? I shall start to think on a prototype.
Other Game: Two friends of mine want to start developing a game and invited me, I really liked the idea and we are going to start talking so we can move on with this project!
Videos: It’s been a while since I’ve been thinking of making videos for youtube, I like the idea but I don’t know what I exactly I would like to talk about. Game Design? Game Development? Tutorials? Hearthstone games? I will think more about it this month.
What I Want to do for next month
- Get back with pixel art studies and practice and have at least one character animation to show here
- Get back with music game composition and practice and have at least one song to show here
- Start the development of Zelda Souls prototype, it will be only the battle system probably, I want to have something to show here also
gueepo 