Casually Hardcore devlog

I suck as a game designer…

July 23rd, 2007

There, I admitted it.

I suck because I lack experience. I have always been the game coder and not the game designer. And while, I’ve been designing my first real game, I’ve realized that I am like when I first starting coding, writing novels, and screenplays – brutal.

To rectify this I should create a dozen mini-games to explore my gameplay creation skills and I’m NOT talking about creating a shooter or a platformer or another clone. I mean original/small games – whether in Flash or otherwise like Gesundheit!. A game that doesn’t feel… worn. It’s not a stupid shooter. It’s not a match-3 puzzle. It’s pacing and art is unique…

However, I’m knee deep in teaching and bootstrapping my company and it’s the first project so I can’t divert myself long enough to build these small games… unless I start organizing monthly game jam like how others organize monthly sketch sessions.

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