If you remember, I said that I had New Years Resolved to make a game. We’re nearly one sixth of the way through the year now, so it’s a good time to report that I’ve made precisely no progress.
In fact, I’ve slightly regressed in that I’m ditching Robob. No offence to the guy, but if the writing in this thing is going to be my strength it’s going to be tough developing a cake tin on wheels as a character.
I have decided that I want to make the game on a Metroidvania style map, because I can’t wait to jump in and buy some graph paper to design it on. I have a lot of love for games like that, and I think they’d suit my method of construction – Game Maker sets out a room size for you and even though I’m sure you can change it it’s quite a good size for Metroidvania rooms.
The trouble now is picking a theme. I can’t do sci-fi for fear of it being too much like Metroid, and I can’t go fantasy because that’ll be like Castlevania. The choice of genre is going to have to be something a little different, to be sure.
Again, not a lot to report, but ideas are forming and I really want to start building this thing as soon as I can. I’ll keep you posted.
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