Uhhhhh,,, I'm back,,, Moonstuck,,, another time and maybe the last hopefully yeah ok let's uh do this?
Sai asked like questions n shit so ima just answer those and sprinkle what else I feel like writing in the moment welp yeah ok,,
Why did I make it??? Well,, I mean, why do you usually make a game,, because it's fun? Because you have an interesting concept in mind?? Because you want to express yourself,,, well that certainly wasn't the case with Moonstuck. Well idunno, I guess I just wanted to like make a game at the time,, and it was the first thing that came to mind. I remember showing it off in chatrooms n stuff and people seemed to uhh not hate it so I just kept working on it..... and pow that's how Moonstuck was born,
Making Moonstuck was a rollercoaster for sure,,, well I mean the initial period of just messing around with stuff was awesome,,, it always is. But the minor details and placing props for 3 months was not fun,,, not at all,,, made me question myself as a developer.
I feel like making Astral Travel to like uhh,,, how do I make this make sense,,, well to get like redemption from making Moonstuck????????? I want to take what I did with Moonstuck,,, and then sprinkle the stuff I like and myself into it. I think it could turn out really cool,,, trust me,,, ok.
NOW, that I cleared all of the questions I'll give you a rundown of the 6 month development!
First two weeks was uh fruitfull,,, I made like 1/10th of the level design (altered a bit),,, I also created the basic mechanics with prototype art,,, that was kinda fun,,, I usually make my art first so this was really something new!
A month in I had the player character in-game flying n stuff,, not a lot of polish,,, not even sure if I had like the final player sprite,,, gameplay went smoothly,,, I made spinny things,,, that was cool.
Second month,, finished gameplay,, started with polish and placing outlines,,, hell was about to get loose holy cow!
2 months go by,,,, outlines,,, depressed, no, stop, I don't really even want to remind myself of that it was not cool. After this the next month was literally just me trying to quit the project but it always came back to haunt me...
Month 5,,, decided to push myself to finish outlines and decorations,,, added a lot of light bloom shit,,, made it look all blurry n stuff but it hid all of the bad art I did 3 months ago. Idunno, I was feeling better,, maybe I could finish the game afterall..........
Month 6,,, last month... Set up the steampage with Z,,, that was cool,, had friends playtest,,, made the game easier,,, hacked a menu together (bad idea ima return to that in a bit),,, also did a sequence animation in the beginning with a cool splashscreen by Mads,, thanks Mads,, I appreciate u,, and Jaden had finalized the awesome fucking music so cool wow thanks Jaden yeah pretty cool I know. I finished stuff, was relieved,, now time to finally publish it,,, IN A MONTH steam is slow. Yeah.
The game has a lot of bugs and annoying stuff, I don't want to touch the game anymore,,, I did a patch with a lot of stuff in it actually,, menu, fixed stuff, credits screen, extra dev art,, gameplay bugs, framerate issue,,, guess what,, I didn't use version control,, Lost the whole fucking patch due to corruption n stuff and welp,, not again... I know that probably makes me the worst developer ever but sorry no
I promised to return to the hacked out menu even though this is a bit out of context lmao but uh there's like a thing where there's a restart button graphic and an exit button text below it... the exit button text is the exit button and teh restart button is the restart button,,,,,,,,,,,, not like this oops that fucked a lot of playthroughs,. OH ALSO there's a framerate issue which kinda breaks the game in a way but idunno man,,, astral travel,,, redemption arc,,, ok thanks...
That was the development of Moonstuck,,, had fun,,, had sad,,, had angry,, had a lot of emotions but at least people enjoyed it and I had friends supporting me and friendship is magic my little pony I am writing this in class so my mind is wandering a lot Swedish actually the board is saying "Sverige har flest INVANDRARE" ok but that's it not for real good bye thanks for reading