Saturday Update 7-25-20


Good news, my first project is available to the public. I did a release for a limited group of people earlier this week who found a simple spelling error, and I found that my icon wasn’t working, so I was able to make those changes before releasing it last night.

https://chaste-degenerate.itch.io/the-game

I have already begun working on my next project. I still have a few hurdles to overcome, so while I expect that this will be my project, I am still holding off announcing exactly what it is until I am further along.

I spent quite a bit of time on just one character, and I am still not satisfied with her. I am not trying to be perfect, especially since I have made her a little cartoonish. But I don’t seem to be getting the caricature aspects for some reason. I see cartoons that are extremely simple, and you can immediately tell who it is, and yet I cannot tell that this is who it is supposed to be. 

I may have to focus on less realism and more exaggeration. I was hoping to get away with as little of that as possible. The only reason I went with a cartoon aspect was because no matter how good I could get the people, it would never look perfect, especially when they are altered into different positions. That would take a serious 3D artist, and I do not have the funds to hire somebody like that.

But this is still just the beginning. I still have to build the “world” for them to interact in. Admittedly their world will be fairly limited. This will be obvious when everyone finds out what it is. I am feeling fairly good about this project, other than the extra work making the characters look right. 

I plan on revealing what project I am working in within the next 5 weeks.

If you are wondering why I am not just telling everyone what the next project is, it is because I have intentionally created a “limbo” time where if I am not happy with the progress, I may decide to abandon the project. Right now, I do not see that happening, and in fact I think it would be quite unlikely. 

This specific project is a parody, and there are some people that might get interested in it just because of that. I really do not want to abandon something after getting people’s hopes up, so I gave myself this time to get my bearings, and see how the project is going first. 

I originally was going to make this my third project, but I had to admit that it had to be a short project, and the idea I had for Project 3 was going to be my next project, but the scope of that one just blew up. I want my next project to be a small one, and this parody really limits a few things so lends itself to a shorter game. My original plan was to spend time on the side building up the characters so they would be ready to go once I started the project, but with switching things up I need to get them developed asap, and without the experience I planned on having by the time I began the project.

I will stop here since I could bore everyone with the details involved. Just be sure that I do not intend on abandoning my next project unless I know it would be for the best.