Hey guys,
After I pushed what I had out for an alpha test last week, I replayed it myself – and honestly ended up in a really negative place about all my work. I felt like I’d worked so hard on the writing, but what I was playing through was boring and underwhelming.
I know it's just porn, but...I don’t wanna make a game I don’t even like. Full transparency: the truth is, I felt like my writing just sucks no matter how hard I push myself, and I came really close to just giving up, or at least putting the game on indefinite hiatus. A little after midnight on Wednesday I even started drafting the announcement. ☹️
Some people I shared these thoughts with told me I’m overthinking it, what’s there’s good, I just need a break, I’ve been working too many hours on it and I’ve lost perspective. So I’d like to announce I’m going on holid– don’t worry, just kidding. 😂
A change is as good as a rest
I do need a break from writing to get some perspective before I go back and finish the Malaysia thing. So I’ve decided to polish up and release the first half of the quickstart – which is just the briefing scene. I made a list of outstanding tasks:
Tasks marked (m) are minor, i.e. they’ll take less than 25 minutes’ work. Other tasks are likely to take longer than 25 minutes.
I didn’t want to release this without Malaysia attached, because there’s no sex scene, and I guess my worry is that everyone will find it boring and pointless without that. But there’s no point polishing something up then sitting on it, so the quickstart will get released in two chunks.
My hope is that switching focus from writing to tech will give my brain the rest it needs, then I can go back and quickly finish the thing I was struggling with and make it good enough to release.
I’ll post an update on this task list in the next report. 🦀❤️🔥