{"id":958,"date":"2011-11-04T14:11:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/unfinished-business\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T22:18:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:18:50","slug":"unfinished-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/unfinished-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfinished business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/image\/2011\/11\/33878259-IMGP6806.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Imgp6806\" src=\"http:\/\/getfile8.posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/temp-2011-11-04\/szvdJyJyErIIJiDqquliFpinzAxJFujevBEpjbJzBaodoqBmgkamswFddfvG\/IMGP6806.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In the picture above, Maja when was a kitten sleeping on a mousepad in my &#8220;old office&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What is the unfinished business I&#8217;m talking about? Well, lots of games get started every year, and many of them, for a reason or another, are canceled. This doesn&#8217;t happens only in the AAA studios, but even at &#8220;indie level&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the video below, a work in progress of a 3d roleplay game called &#8220;Tower Of Destiny&#8221;. The project was abandoned about 3 years ago because the coder quit. It should have been a 3d dungeon crawler, with some &#8220;outdoor&#8221; zones. I think I&#8217;ll probably redo it as plain 2d dungeon game sometimes in the future.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pPhcM1hEh6k?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this other video a more recent work-in-progress. It&#8217;s the 3d version of one of my older games, Universal Boxing Manager. I didn&#8217;t hear back from the coder since June this year, so while I cannot officially say that it won&#8217;t be done, I don&#8217;t have much hopes as well!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZ-DYp79e0o?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So you might start to understand why I&#8217;m making mostly games I can code myself recently? Disappearing artists\/writers are a pain, since you need to look for a replacement (and in the case of art, redo even the art that has been already partly done), but when a coder disappear&#8230; means the game can&#8217;t go on, especially if you&#8217;re not able to finish\/continue coding yourself or if the coder used a different tool\/language you&#8217;re not familiar with.<\/p>\n<p>This just to show that being indie it can be a real pain as well, since there are many more problems than people might think. And now, let&#8217;s talk about something else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bionic Heart promotion!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve updated Bionic Heart to use online activation, and like I did for Heileen 2, I&#8217;m offering two downloads: one without voices, which is about 32-35mb, and one with voices which is about 169-173mb!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tycoongames.eu\/adventures\/bionicheart.php\">The game will be only 4.99 for the weekend, so grab it now! <\/a><br \/>\nOnly $0,2 each ending! (it has 24 endings)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roommates game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I got the first sketches from artist for this new game. As you can see, lots of interesting people&#8230; the 6 characters below are the dateable one. Max and Anne are the two main playing characters (the game will be playable as male\/female). There are two bisex characters, can you guess which ones? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the male characters are sexy\/interesting enough? I have no doubts the females are \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/image\/2011\/11\/33878308-roommates.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roommates\" src=\"http:\/\/getfile7.posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/temp-2011-11-04\/shADojwrBlszznyCunGIemlBqEpvlazJzIJzBjeHroAmurwsmIkCvIufcCHu\/roommates.jpg.scaled500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And for this week is all. Ah no, wait: there are rumors that a certain game with a winter theme MIGHT be really finished shortly&#8230; but maybe is just a rumor! Who knows? Keep following me on twitter\/facebook\/blog to know more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the picture above, Maja when was a kitten sleeping on a mousepad in my &#8220;old office&#8221;. What is the unfinished business I&#8217;m talking about? Well, lots of games get started every year, and many of them, for a reason or another, are canceled. 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