GDC Update - Going Rogue with Stencyl!

You know what? I've 'had it' and I'm not going down without a fight!

For those who may have missed it, a few days ago I shared a lament about how the two persons who I'd been thrown together with to form a team have been a total let down.

With a November 17th deadline looming I'd all but given up.

Even as I continued to attempt to motivate the team members to actually 'do something' I grew ever more frustrated with what I had to work with. A team I'd been trying to get to 'move' from day 1.

I was consigned to giving up.

And then I snapped.

And loaded up Stencyl.

And started working on building the game myself...

...I'm nuts... but I think that I might be able to pull it off...

It'll be uglier. It'll be limited to Stencyl's capabilities...

But it would be a game that kinda works with zero input from the "team".

And I want to teach them a lesson...

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Doing so Shall Not be a Cake Walk

While I do have a little bit of experience using Stencyl, I'd learnt it during the course of the Global Game Jam earlier this year. Since Unity is the gold standard in gaming I allowed myself to focus upon other kinds of learning - and this did not change for the Game Design Contest that started all the way back in July.

Since I 'thought' that I was dealing with a programmer and an artistically inclined fellow - I resolved to focus upon the menial things like tilesets first - and made the mistake of trusting that the programmer had Unity covered.

Well.. here I am... more than 3 months later, feeling older.

The odds of success are admittedly slim - but I've a pretty good idea of what needs to be done (if not a great idea of how to go about certain things).

• Load Tileset that I made (Sure - it could have been much better fitting - especially laterally, but I consider it a learning experience (lesson learnt: Don't use vectors to create texture. Its murder on computer resources))

• Build level one using it as a baseline, with a few third-party images thrown in for completion, based upon the level designs that I made with the help of a spreadsheet.

• Resize, and set up character sprite animations. Hope they won't need tweaking.

• Delve into getting the level and character mechanics right.

• Focus upon a slim but effective User Interface that I'd already had a couple of ideas for.

• Implement a start screen - along with a one-person credits screen (why not!?).

• Build and improve from there.

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So this is the challenge that I'm setting for myself. It would be ideal to have the game ready for the deadline - but if I have it ready for the demo the following week - I'll also be happy.

...I still think I'm nuts

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Well - thats what I'm thinking about for the moment. Do you have any comments or feedback? Perhaps you yourself are a developer who could spur me on? Do get in on the discussion down below! :c)

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Sincerely,

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