I got caught up on specific features that would take me 4 months to implement. Like i was going to make a city builder and came up with a way to make dynamic realsitic roads with no compromises. Worked flawlessly, but thats not a game and i am one guy. Thats jusy one example, but the gist of it is i wasted too much time on single things and not just saying “make a simple clone of something start to finish”.
Ah, yeah a lot of my past projects went that way. Just spent 2 months getting a ping pong shader system to work so you can have map level fog of war with a vision cone. Easy for a computer shader but mobile doesn’t have good support apparently.
Road system is an achievement though, might be able to spin just that and a little more into a little game, like mini metro etc?
Some days I’m amazed how much I can get done but it’s cancelled out by things that I thought would be quick and take weeks!
The mistake i made was biting off more than i could chew. If i could do it over again i would make simpler games to understand end to end
I’ve been doing that in the background for a few years now (checks notes… 15 years)
Background is software so I have a jumpstart on that.
I THOUGHT my project was relatively limited scope. But I must’ve been zoomed out in my brain because… damn. It ain’t.
Might be my only chance after I got a bit of funding, so just need to steamroll it, get something out there. Fingers crossed!
Did you get to release in some form?
“we do these things not because they’re easy, but because we thought they would be easy”
I got caught up on specific features that would take me 4 months to implement. Like i was going to make a city builder and came up with a way to make dynamic realsitic roads with no compromises. Worked flawlessly, but thats not a game and i am one guy. Thats jusy one example, but the gist of it is i wasted too much time on single things and not just saying “make a simple clone of something start to finish”.
Ah, yeah a lot of my past projects went that way. Just spent 2 months getting a ping pong shader system to work so you can have map level fog of war with a vision cone. Easy for a computer shader but mobile doesn’t have good support apparently.
Road system is an achievement though, might be able to spin just that and a little more into a little game, like mini metro etc?
Some days I’m amazed how much I can get done but it’s cancelled out by things that I thought would be quick and take weeks!