It’s good to be back in the saddle again 🙂
I really missed the course, my fellow students and all the fun we were having back at the beginning of 2021 on the first half of this module. I really needed the year off. 2021 turned out to be quite a journey of self discovery and now, as the days and weeks roll over into 2022 and module 720, Game Development, starts once more it’s time to pick up from where I left off.
My plan going forwards is to scrap the previous project, Swarm!, and come up with something new. Swarm! was perhaps too big and badly defined if I’m honest — a symptom of not enough upfront thinking and trying to shovel in content to cover the cracks. Hindsight is a wonderful teacher and this time around I want to come up with a strong yet simple concept and place a very tight reign on feature creep.
I have a few ideas in mind already:
- Racing game along the lines of the film Death Rate 2000
- Match 3 puzzle game
- Pinball
Each has their own merits and weaknesses so it will be interesting to see what the ideation reveals next week.
Only a short reflective post this week I’m afraid. An IT issue meant access to the course content was late and a mini-trip to Falmouth to take my son to the open day hasn’t left much time.
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