Thanksgiving used to be one of my favorite holidays until this year. Black Friday started at 8pm on Thursday. Give people time to enjoy their meal and digest and all that before you send them out into the holiday shopping zombie mode. Apparently 2 guys got in a fight over some underwear and another guy died from a choke hold... Yeah Black Friday is not safe. Either way I had a good time, I wound up being able to see my family in the DC area which I thought wasn't going to happen so that was nice.
So now's the time for yet another update. I find these are helping me work out things that I need to do in order to get this stuff done on time. So far I have my GDD underway. I am referring to an old book from CCC because I feel like it goes into more detail about what each section requires and I want to be sure I don't forget anything I may or may not need in order to get this thing done.
Thus far I have several sections of the GDD finished as far as the first draft. I have a few concept art pieces for the first few levels done and I need to add them to the GDD. I also decided that I'm going to finish developing this game on the OUYA which is not going to be released until April 2013. I need to find out how much the SDK will cost and then I'll save up, until then I am going to continue to flesh it out in GameMaker and then Unity that way I'll know all the assets look the way I want them to. I am in the middle of working on the Story Elements, specifically the actual story line and the environment aspects.
I am going to keep working on the story. It is a huge part of the game and I want it to be better than something thrown together. I'm reading up on game narrative which also includes the different camera angles of scenes (if applicable), character dialogue, and the like. Honestly it is taking a lot longer than I'd like it to, but I also know that you cannot really rush a good story. If I were working on my own time I wouldn't be discouraged, but I do have a deadline and the real world will often have deadlines.
Time is of the essence, I think there's only 3 weeks left in the semester if you include the Finals week. 3 weeks, 3 projects, 1 paper... Also I like to work with music on really low to give me some ambiance, but I can't really decide on a station in Pandora. Maybe I need to switch online radio players. I wonder if Spotify has a better video game music genre than Pandora does.
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