Posted October 31, 2023 by adam v
Happy Birthday, Cool Guy
Corn Sausage RPG began as little more than a shitposty practice project to grease my wheels in preparation for a much more ambitious video game. It taught me some things about myself and how I work, but more importantly led me to meet some cool people who against all odds had found something of value in the game. Complete strangers played it on stream, broadcasting to their audiences something deeply and profoundly… embarrassing.
I initially only spent a month on it; I wanted to see what I could accomplish in a short time. Since then, Corn Sausage has sat on Itch.io as an unfinished joke. Sure it had some sweet sentiments, but they were hidden behind an intentionally unnerving title screen and stolen visual assets. Few dared venture beyond such an intimidating barrier. I am an incredibly self-conscious person, so it wasn’t long before I was steamrolled by the realization that my name was associated with a game that looked like Pokemon and played like a thirty-year-old dog.
The next few months I worked busily on my next project, but all the while there was something nagging at me. It tugged on my shirt, begged for my attention, gnawed at my soul, and haunted my dreams.. It was Cool Guy. Demanding to be finished, to be loved, to be turned into a proper, honest-to-god video game hero. And so I abandoned my social life and put everything on the backburner to return to my firstborn child.
So I spent the last five months on Corn Sausage 2.0-- a complete overhaul of every piece of the game. I don’t know when it will be done. I have zero estimate. When I started in May, I tricked myself into thinking it would all be ready today, but you know how it goes. Scope creep, burn out, perfectionism, blah blah blah blah blah. Game development happened and is happening. Let’s do some sneak peeks.