one step forward, half a step back
you design something, you integrate it, you playtest it, you celebate your minor triumph, you show it off to everyone…then somebody on some other team changes some little thing and suddenly…mysteriously…poof! it’s all gone. so it went today, as i played through an area where all the voiceover was working like a champ a couple weeks ago but now is a jumbled mess. the punchline is here is: i’m pretty sure the somebody on some other team who changed some little thing did so in order to faciliate some request of *mine*. i have met the enemy, and he is me.
ah, so it goes in game development. fortunately, this kind of thing diminishes as you approach the finish line. at least you’d better hope it does…else that finish line’s going to keep moving just beyond reach, like a mirage leading yer tenderfoot ass to yer death in the game development desert. :)
So all the work you did just disappeared? That sucks. Hope you can get that level or whatever up and running soon. Oh hey just to update you on how this whole game design thing is going for me (because you care :) ). I just downloaded the unreal engine and trying to work with that. It’s harder then I thought.
lol, no no…it’s not as bad as my griping makes it out to be. it’s just one of those “house of cards” things. i had something Just Right, then one of the cards got moved. fortunately it was a card near the top, not at the bottom (to protract my dumb metaphor), so making things right again should be no big deal. it’s just a temporary sadface when you hop in and things are a little worse than they were the day before. :)
and yeah! downloading an engine like that and mucking about with it is a *great* way to get your hands dirty. in fact i can’t believe i forgot to mention that to you in the first place. so much for my worldly advice. one of the audio guys here does that sort of thing. it has almost zero instruction value as far as audio goes, but has tons of value for getting your head around The Big Picture.