{"id":1276,"date":"2013-03-08T15:48:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2013-03-08T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T15:17:55","slug":"making-wrong-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/making-wrong-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Making wrong choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"grateful\"<\/a>
\nI wish I had someone like Tanya to help me out, because I would really need it.<\/p>\n

Today I hoped to announce Bionic Heart 2 beta testing. After two months of coding\/testing, would be about time!<\/p>\n

Instead no. I have bad news. I’m at one point where I fix a plot hole, and a new one appears. I check a variable, one path works, the other doesn’t. A scene that before was fine, now plays out of order.<\/p>\n

I’ve worked like crazy in past 3 days, I’m stressed like never before and then I came to a simple conclusion. There’s no hope to make this work. Every time I open the script I have a headache now. Writer doesn’t have time to help.<\/p>\n

So I’m thinking what to do. It’s really embarrassing for me. Despite all the efforts, I know that I can’t make this work, unless I make some really big changes<\/strong>. And I’m not used to release half-broken games. Testing to find the bugs is one thing, but the version I have currently is not even to be considered “testable”. Only 3 days ago I thought I was at good point, but then I discovered that is like a house of cards, if you move a piece, everything falls apart.<\/p>\n

It’s the first time I find myself in such situation in my life, and I’m the sole responsible of this. I should have followed more carefully the situation, instead I was busy with other projects. A wrong choice, trusting too much someone else capabilities, thinking he can do it all on his own without supervision, and that’s the result.<\/p>\n

A pity because the story itself is really good I think.<\/p>\n

Not all is lost though!<\/strong><\/p>\n

However don’t be afraid, I’m already thinking what to do to solve the situation. A simple solution would be to eliminate the “multiple path” feature and just have a continuous story, where if you fail the Mars or Earth path the game ends. Less cool than the original project, but probably in this case I wouldn’t have to do a total rewrite of the story, and would be faster to solve it.<\/p>\n

Don’t worry, the game WILL be out, you will only need to be patient for a little more! I am still aiming to finish it by the end of March, even if I’ll have to rework the game structure a lot.<\/p>\n

I’m really sorry about what happened and will make sure this won’t repeat in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wish I had someone like Tanya to help me out, because I would really need it. Today I hoped to announce Bionic Heart 2 beta testing. After two months of coding\/testing, would be about time! Instead no. I have bad news. I’m at one point where I fix a plot hole, and a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,6,94,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bionic-heart-2","category-development-screenshot","category-development-tricks","category-indie-life","category-postmortem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}