Yes, I am really thinking about putting voices into my next game. I don’t really know why I didn’t think about it before, if done properly, a narrator voice can add lot even to a shareware game like mine.
Here’s another screenshots from the Character Creation screen, of course in the game the resolution will be much bigger (is 800×600).
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today I spent 1 hour making a rotating magic wand for my next game Magic Stones.
Yes, 1 hour. You might think I’m crazy 🙂
In effect, while I was making it, often I thought “this is a waste of my time” – and really time is the most precious of all things (for anyone, not only for a indie dev!).
The final effect satisfy me, even if still I wonder if that was time well spent.. 🙂 anyway I want to polish my next game a lot, and I want to put attention even to details like mouse pointer (yes sorry forgot to tell you, the magic want will be the mouse pointer!).
You might be curious to see it now, here it goes:
It seems that the “job” of indie dev is becoming quite popular in the net. No wonder, since recently it got coverage from big media like CNN and so on.
The problem is that most people think that being indie dev is easy, while that isn’t really the case.
Some good advices can be found in this Macgames & More webpage.
They’re good and valid not only for Mac developers but in general 😉
In general I’d like to warn anyone that is not easy, so “don’t burn the ship” unless you really can (i.e. you have no family to mantain, etc).
Of course you might think I’m saying this because I don’t want more competition… 🙂 but when you’ll have your first game out and you’ll earn 100$/month maximum with it, don’t complain!!
Being a successful indie takes time (I’d say at least 2-3 years minimum to get a stable income), and even if you ask more famous (and successful) developers like Goodsol or Dexterity, they’ll reply you the same.
What are your favourite RPGs ever?
Mine is a long list. I’d start with Dark Sun: Shattered Lands of the SSI. That game was really marvellous, realtime action with turn based combat. That system in my opinion is one of the best ones ever used.
Another masterpiece surely is the Fallout series by Black Isle. Man, those games had so much atmosphere… even in plain old isometric view, they were more interesting than those recent full realtime 3d games… (not that is a bad thing, but means that technology isn’t everything).
Recently I didn’t play any good RPG, even Temple of Elemental Evil was a bit too combat oriented, still is the best one I played in the last years!
well the situation isn’t very good with all those MMORPG around. Personally after playing for over 3 years Everquest now I can’t stand anymore any kind of MMORPG game 🙂 didn’t even tried World of Warcraft…!