It’s been a long road, a lot of detours… But I’m finally here. I’m a senior! Yaaaaaa–wait, that means I’m going to college next year. Wait, where am I even going… Oh no, this is bad. But I’ll finally be done with school! Yaaaaaaaaaaay! I know I haven’t done a blog post in a while, and a lot has happened, but I won’t be covering it all. Do you want me to write a novel?!
Lots of work on Espionage Inc lately. LOTS. We’re making more progress than ever. In fact, we’ve completely restarted production from scratch and we’ve nearly completely rethought the concept in a lot of places. We have 5 developers: Two programmers, one mapper, one modeler, and one skinner. You’d think it wouldn’t be too hard to coordinate all that, but when I’m dabbling into everyone’s work it gets a bit crazy. I’m incredibly happy that we could find another programmer, who’s actually good even. It makes the whole thing so much easier on me. I thought I was going to be the only programmer, and I thought I could handle it. Now that we’re pretty much fully head-on into production and we’ve got everyone working at once, I can definitely say that I WOULD NOT be able to handle it. I’ve barely been able to program at all, and I don’t think I’ll be able to. I’m modeling props and characters, animating characters, programming, and coordinating everything. I don’t think I’ll barely even have time for all that. And we still don’t have a sound guy… Okay, I’ll get off the soap box.
We’ve pretty much finished the general shape and layout of the first level, now we’re just adding detail and making all of the content to go in it. The concept of the whole game is pretty much 100% solid at this point, and unlike before, we’re completely planning out our levels and gameplay before we do anything towards them. I think that’s the main reason for our massive amount of progress at this point. I expect to have something playable by maybe even the end of this year. I’m hopeful. Maybe just even the first level. We’ll see.
I don’t want to spoil too much (if anything), so I’ll just stop there and not go into detail about exactly what we’re doing. We’ll do a media release at some point, I’m sure. In other news, I want to do a 3D animation but I’m not sure what. Or when or where to start. I have the skills, I have the motivation, but I don’t have the time. I even have over 9000 ideas to make it of. There need to be more hours in the day…
Also Batman: Arkham Asylum is amazing. Best singleplayer game ever right there. If you haven’t already played it, GO GET IT NOW. Or else.
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