- Jan 23, 2018
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I used to work in the indie scene prior to this, but mostly on the side roles(QA, game design, project lead for a brief time), it's the first time I have ever developed anything on my own, had to learn most of the stuff on the go.
I had a thought of doing something like what you have in mind, starting from his childhood in Nacaricierna, fleeing it, getting accustomed to life outside, then meeting Roses, getting to power. When I first started I was thinking that I am going to bomb and just say "I tried" and move on. Welp. There have been some moments that to me played quite well, when the player does not know what happened and has to get the pieces here and there. Some of the reveals would be ruined, like the ones with Gwen, which felt like it turned out quite nice to me. And I did not think I could do those earlier scenes justice back then, as I was pretty inexperienced all things considered.
Right now, though, I already had to cut most of the side stuff as I simply don't have time for that anymore. Current goal is to finish chapter 1 and maaaybe do a chapter 2 early version release, if I can afford to get to that. I wanted to expand the map system, add more management elements, open up the game a bit more as it's quite linear, optimize the combat a bit (i barely knew any coding when I first started). All this had to go already though, the game simply won't live that long, sadly, so I am mostly gonna focus on story and some combat events for as long as I can.
