Posted March 15, 2020 by kopyright
It's finally here - my first properly finished mini-game. :-)
Like many budding developers I too made the beginner's mistake of trying to bite off more than I could chew, which left me with a large pile of scribbled notes, unfinished prototypes and frustration.
A few weeks ago I decided to stop trying to develop the "next big thing" and focus on smaller but easily manageable games instead. Turns out even at such a small scale it's surprising how much work there is to do besides the actual game itself, but with each added feature - no matter how small it was - a game can feel more polished.
Picking a small project also brought some of the long lacking fun of game development back. While with the previous unfinished projects I never even knew how to start, with Highway Hazard I sometimes couldn't wait to get back home to add another feature or tinker with some settings to make some slight improvements.
Now go play a round or two and brag about your highscore in the comments. :-)
- Thomas