Last time i talked about what i had already implemented into my game and spoke about the aspirations I have for it. I've now uploaded a video to youtube so you dudes can see how its shaping up.
What I'm gonna be focusing on doing for the rest of this month is create the areas fully and add in all the enemies. Then the game itself is pretty much playable. I'm still trying to decide on what the themes for the area's will be. As you'll see in the video, I've pretty much settled on a jungle setting for the first area. I want all areas to be re-playable and as the player gains new abilities and new levels they'll be able to access new parts of those areas. One of the parts proving hard for me to master is creating an open world where the Player can go anywhere, but instead of being blocked by a physical limit, is blocked by enemies that they can't defeat yet. I hope to overcome this and get the balance right shortly.
Once the world and enemies are in place i can start to thicken it out with items, secret areas and create a suggested path to progress as well as put NPCs and story cues in. Once that's done, i'll work on stat balancing which i'm totally new to and will be trial and error. This mostly concludes the hard work of making the game. I will then need artwork generating and polishing it around the edges. Then the really hard part of getting the game on to platforms and trying to make it sell will start.
Let me know what you think of the video, and as always let me know what you think of this blog. As I said before I want to spark some discussion from other developers about there game making processes, from the community about anything the game I'm making and just general chit chat about development and indie titles.
Thanks for reading and here's the video:
Just another point, where's best to post this in the forum, Off-Topic, General Discussion or other. I posted the last in off-topic but as it's game related i posted this in General. Hopefully if it's wrong the mods will tell me :-/
Cheers.
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