10-Week Evaluation

This post marks the 10-week milestone of this project. By this point I have completed a single-level demo of the game.

Deliverables:

• Working final game
  • Main menu + one game level
    • Pausing / unpausing
    • Track high scores
  • Game mechanics
    • Choice engine
    • Powerups
    • Scoring system
  • Game design
    • Progression playtested and tuned with multiple people
    • Optimized level layout for AI (multiple iterations of level design)
  • Art + music + sound
    • Composed one track
    • Sound effects for everything
    • Procedural art effects
• Devblog
  • 13 total posts
  • Some CSS

Good things:

• I’ve written some decent documentation.
• I managed to get some art and music despite having limited facilities in both.
• It’s really fun!

Bad things:

• I was in a bit of a rush and could have written better documentation.
• I did not use version control, and thus ran into a few bumps which could have been resolved in seconds with proper version control set up.
• I can’t build the game! There’s some weird licensing issue which doesn’t allow me to actually build an executable.

Immediate Next Steps:

• Complete devblog front-end and make website for advertisement
• Created detailed documentation on certain aspects for public reference
• Figure out how to build the game

Long-Term Next Steps:

• Make a trailer
• Improve music track
• Add modes
  • More difficulties
  • Multiplayer
• Kickstarter campagin