Solid InDev6

2012-07-22

This development has a rather tragic story. To illustrate that tragedy, coming close to a classic Greek tragedy, I wrote a short screen play for you.

Somewhere in my dark schizophrenic mind, my different personae meet. Think of a boring meeting room.

Monday, 9th of July: Iteration Kickoff Meeting

rioki(Manager):     OK team, this iteration we will focus on the 
                    editor. Let's make the editor ready for prime 
                    time.

rioki(Artist):      Nice. The current state of affairs is just 
                    frustrating, my pristine art will not touch 
                    abomination.

rioki(Programmer):  Whatever! 

                    There are some minor issues I want to have 
                    resolved. 

rioki(Designer);    I have been thinking, how about we make the 
                    primary level geometry voxels. Just like 
                    Minecraft. It will be really easy to edit 
                    and all.

rioki(Programmer):  We have been over this! The current 
                    implementation is good enough. We want to
                    take the same approach like Overgrowth.
                    You know, use modular set pieces and arrange 
                    and combine them.

rioki(Artist):      Thanks for the extra work.

rioki(SoundArtist): Until you guys haven't implemented sound I 
                    will not even start.

rioki(Manager):     We know that.

                    OK team let's get this show on the road.


Wednesday, 18th of July: At the coffee machine.

rioki(Manager):     So guys, how are we doing?

Artist, Designer and Programmer look away.

rioki(Manager):     Guys, so how are we doing?

rioki(Programmer):  I was trying things out, like on my hobby 
                    project. Did you know that it is really easy 
                    to build web applications with flask?

rioki(Artist):      I did, ... um ... research ... um ... I did 
                    research into ... um ... Shogun 2, you know 
                    Steam Summer Sale and all.

rioki(Designer):    I still think we need voxels. I have been 
                    thinking about how the editor can integrate 
                    voxels.

rioki(SoundArtist): No sound system, nuf said.

rioki(Manager):     Gyaaa!!! What you did no progress at all?! 
                    OK what was the problem?!

rioki(Designer):    The game is not fun! It is totally not 
                    playable!

rioki(Programmer):  Yea the movement system it still buggy and 
                    the "gravity gun" is still not implemented.

rioki(Manager):     OK. Focus on making the game playable. So 
                    that we have some progress.

You can try out the latest build for Windows: Solid-InDev6.exe