Day 30 2/2: (last day)
Devtober ‘20 – Post Mortem
This year I really forced myself to do something from time to time due to the current situation we are all in and my stressful job.
State of the project:
During the past months the project hasn’t changed this much. Nevertheless some things have already existed: one enemy, spawner, goal, pathing and a tower. You think that’s all you need for a tower defence game? You may be right, but there are much more things which need to be added since in the project no music & no real sprites were found. Also the gameplay was really simple at the moment.
What went wrong?
Like last years devtober not this much, but somehow I made the same “mistakes” in this year too. Yeah you see right: I set mistakes in quotation marks. Because I was using again new programs which I have not used before, be it in composing, when creating the tile sheets or something else. Sure, it’s a good move because you learn something, but I also think: I could have done more by doing things which I already know.
What went right?
Already anticipated: In
this one month I had achieved much more than in the many
months before
all
together.
About the project:
I’ve now designed the first tower, sprites & textures exist. I also was working on the first two tracks. I also have an idea how the first set of towers should look like, but also a system how the player places these ones on the map, including a tower GUI & upgrade GUI.
In general:
I learnt a lot of stuff by using new programs which I have not used before. All in all I think everything went quite well.
What’s next?
I will continue to work on the project, maybe not every day due to my stressful job I have which became more stressful due to the current situation we are all in.
Anyway the project must grow! Grow much further! I will again plan structured days and small tasks which need to be done. Things have to be reworked, many new levels have to be created but also I still have to study a bit of history, since the game is epoch based.
At this time and year I won’t give an estimate since I know I will not stick to this one. But also because the work which has to be done is much.
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