by Duoiz » Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:26 pm
20+ tags, alot of things... HOLD YOUR HORSES!!
It is super easy to start out as a wannabe-gamemaker. You start with pen and paper, and soon the simple platformer you wanted to do as your first project is a massive
mmorpg with full VR support.
The first thing you need to learn, the VERY first thing is LIMITS.
All to often I see projects being posted with "Will have 100+ girlz" "+200 scenes" or the like. LIMITS is a key word, and to be honest one that I strugle with myself.
Sitt down with your plan. Look at it, look at it good! Then start to cross out everything but the very, very narrow things that the game "needs", see what is on the list of your "This I also want but it isn't really "needed"" part, and see if you can implement a system that lets you add them, one at a time, without breaking your original game.
Such as, girls for instance. Do you need 200 of them? no, most likley you need 2-3. (Why not 1? Because it is hard to make a work-flow-frame-work with to narrow of a spectrum.) Same with you fetishes in this case.
Even if you are making something "simple" like a text game were you have "Talk to girl->choice a fetish->read text-" like system, if you have a list of over 20+ you are going to burn yourself out before you even started, start with 2-3, make a system that lets you add choices without horrible concecences.
So TL;DR, if you need to add "MOAR!!" do it in a from that lets you, as a dev, pull the plug when there isn't more in you, so that you at any time can say; "I did some nice work, but I want to move on.", instead of "Dang, I only added 4 of X and I don't feel like doing any more... I think I will start with a simple platformer instead, this is to much for me..."
(...And return to the mmorpg with full vr support.)
