I love this project!

It's getting late and I still don't want to stop working on my game! That's some good momentum! I have gutted out the original and rebuilt. It's going very well. It's much less complicated. I had 10 scripts that I was able to  put into one script. I had 10 objects I was able to combine into one object. I changed the design on a couple of things. I'm pleased. I started doing more work on the graphics and I like the look. Still very amateurish, but I'm not going to worry about that. I love this project!

Still satisfied

I am pretty pleased with myself. I am working on this revision of the dog walking game (it has no clever title yet), and I just solved a major problem! Yay! I am now faced with a minor problem that just ground everything to a halt, but, well, that's how it goes. I work so slow that I am really able to savor the full emotional highs and lows of making my first game. This isn't the first I've worked on, I am just determined that it will be the first that I finish.
I know that I am talking only to myself, and that is fine. I don't feel like I have a lot to contribute at this stage.

Satisfaction

So I am back on track. Out of my rut! I just made a break through that has me very excited! I figured out how to make the levels work. I have stripped the game bare and have begun reworking it. This was the first main task and I've accomplished it! Feeling very satisfied.

procrastination

I feel bad that I haven't written lately. My work on my game has been spotty since I had that cold. When my momentum is up I need to hold on tight, because starting with none is rough. I have to rebuild the whole thing too which is causing me to procrastinate.

More soon.

Sick

I've had a cold for the past week and so I've done nothing. I am going to do some work this afternoon. I thought I should cement that idea with myself by stating that fact in here! Yes, this afternoon it begins again! I have to re-haul the whole game. I have variables being declared all willy nilly. It's causing me problems now and I am going to have to come up with a better system. It sounds fun, right?

New name for this blog

I love making progress! I got really giddy this afternoon thinking about how close I am to finishing the base of this game. I only need to sew up the leveling system and fix a few little bugs. Once that is done, I can put in the graphics and play around with bells and whistles! That's when I get to have some fun! I made an executable that only works up to level 3, and I watched my SO play it. Pretty boring as is!! It's going to need a lot of bells and whistles. I also will have to do a lot of trial and error with the levels, to make sure they gradually incline and aren't too hard or impossible at the end.
I've started a lot of games in the past year, but this is the first one that I've gotten to this point. So satisfying! Maybe I can have a complete game by this weekend. At least a first draft. I might want to keep reworking the graphics and levels. I have to find music and sound effects too.

bad graphics -yay!

I came up with this reasonable plan of working 2 hours a night during the week, and then 10 hours on the weekend. Instead I just binge work as usual. I put in 5 hours tonight. Spent most of the night squashing bugs I created yesterday. I also worked a little on the graphics. I decided to just make cartoonish graphics. Very simple for now. I have to stop for now as I am getting cranky.
I haven't decided what this blog is supposed to do. As of now it is more like a journal. Maybe I'll attach it to my google plus account and then it can turn into something else.
I'm done with working on anything tonight - it's very hot.

This is the game in progress. Just stand in graphics. And you only see a non moving, non game slice.