Remember last week’s screenshot? That’s the game I’m making. Surprise! Over the past five days my game has developed from great right through to… equally great. In fact, I’d say it’s exactly as great, since I’ve done absolutely no work on it whatsoever. Here’s what I did instead:
I redecorated!
The Farbs Cave underwent extensive refurbishment, and my lowly geek hovel transmogrified into a classy business establishment. I’m particularly fond of the motivational posters, though their captions seem to be missing. Let me know what they’re supposed to say and I’ll fix them up.
I took a photo!
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I found out I’m going to be on TV!
Good Game, 8:30 Monday night ABC2. Gosh darnit I’m just so excited! Hopefully they kept the bit where I drove my car around.
I playtested!
No, I wasn’t playing games. I asked other people to play my game, then held back tears (of joy) as they told me what (great) they (brilliant) thought (magnificent) of (rather clever) it (a bit difficult). Kyle Pulver sent me a snapshot of the ship he built, and although it may look better than mine, I can assure you that it is not. I have now synthesized all the feedback into a schedule of feature tweaks, improvements, and super improvements.
I cropped Kyle’s screenshot!
Mine is better
I wrote this post!
See above, below, and here.
I pretended to know things!
I spent Tuesday morning with a game design class, helping them prepare their project pitches. Tony Oakden and I listened as they pitched game ideas, then heaped praise on the one where they gave us biscuits. An important lesson was learned that day.
<3 Farbs
For the love of God, put SOME version of the alpha back up so we can play. If you don’t Kyle and I will be forced to clone it. Just so we can play.
Hopefully I can finish it before you can produce a clone. Otherwise I’m doing something very, very wrong.
darn swanky studio you have there.
Never underestimate the time-saving power of Unity :).
But seriously, very excited for the next version. It is already the best game I’ve played this year.
When Farbs? WHEN?!?! I want this game so much :(
Soooooooon.
Hoorah! Wait, what’s soon?
Also, where did you get those posters? They look awesome!
Farbs, credit your poster source, you ridiculous being.
http://orioto.deviantart.com/gallery/?6943610#Videogame-Remakes
Aha! So _that’s_ where they came from. They were my parting gift from 2K, so I had no idea as to their origins. I also have City Borders and Green Hill Zone.
Well, then.
2K Australia, credit your poster source, you ridiculous group of beings.
awesome ottering. UPDATE PLEASE
Where’s the game? Make with the fun funs already!
Dead or busy?
Busy. Sorry, I’ve been trying to avoid “I haven’t finished the game yet” posts, and I’ve been too excited about the latest developments in the game to stop working and write something. I’ll post properly tomorrow though.
Keeping you honest here. Where is that promised update?
I can’t believe my year 6 teacher is still checking up on me.
*starts writing update*
*cack* you noodle
You can watch the ABC footage at:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/video/default.htm?pres=20090622_2030&story=8
It starts 2:30 in.
Best Wishes,
-Ben
You need:
– another monitor
– a bigger monitor (so buy another one and set it up dual, 22″ wide costs ~200€)
– your own server with raid disks so you can run git and all good stuff ^__^ (unless of course this page already is in your server)
– more desktop space or whiteboard for drawing & concepts + project management (schedules, project graphs, gantts, whatever). Very neat is this kind of paper that electrostatically sticks in walls. You can draw on it and cut it into pieces and all that. A LOT of space for drawing things and scribbling and concepting is important! More visual surface!
that’s what I’d get (:
Also, well done in the interview!
I dunno… I always thought I could never go back to a single monitor, but here I am. Perhaps if CF does well enough I’ll invest in some new display hardware. If laser video projectors get good enough I might also just use the slanted ceiling in the top right of the picture :D
“Click to embiggen” this killed me