Time fly and I have done almost nothing since last time I posted because I hurt my neck and had a hard time sitting down and programming. I also lost all inspiration for a quiz game, some what because it pretty sophisticated stuff programming a quiz from scratch. Today I returned to my game project and was about to give up. But I read on the wall "Search God through prayer". I did so, and almost at once I got an answer; to return to my first game idea and to only program stuff I know well! I have now returned to my original game idea. And I feel good about it. More info soon.
This happened to me a few years ago when I worked on SEED for the 2015 Speedgame Challenge. I had big ideas but God showed me through a dream how what I had planned was not possible in the timeline of the challenge and that I needed to scale down. Here's how the dream went: I walked out of my house and saw an ice cream truck on the street. I wanted some ice cream so I walked up to it and looked around the menu. I saw this one ice cream I really liked and looked at the price, it cost $6. I went for my wallet and opened it up, only $2 stared back at me. I then looked back at the menu and scanned it trying to find something that I had the money for. When I woke up, I knew exactly what it meant. I was trying to make a game which required more knowledge than I had, I simply didn't have the capacity to make it, so I had to scale down to something within my grasp. The project I was shooting for would have taken 6 weeks most likely, and that would have been with looking through tutorials and trying to bring things together. Very patchy.
It's funny because I always pray for my game ideas and God comes through in some way, shape and form. We just got to listen. I over shot my planning with Warrior in 2014. Part of my inspiration for that game was Altered Beast, in that I wanted to do a side-scroller. However I got stuck with wanting to do platforming in one part of the Forest level in my game and trying to fix it I wasn't able to finish the game. I remember God leaning in on my heart wanting me to keep it simple like certain sections in Altered Beast, but I kept trying to find a workaround for what I wanted. So I thought I wasn't going to do that in 2015 with SEED, yet deciding to use HAXE instead of GameMaker Studio added a lot of complexity to my ideas. So scaled down I did and I finished with a very simplified form of my original idea. But it definitely gave me fuel for thought for the future.
It's always great and inspiring when God speaks to his designers in different ways and guides them! God truly is interested in our work!