I am at heart a modest game creator. I have a minor talent
to put together these little games, but I don’t think I do anything that anyone
else couldn’t succeed with if they had the time or effort. I do not think I have the writing
and defiantly not the graphic abilities to produce a really excellent game. Now
I’m not above having my ego stroked, I don’t think that anyone doesn’t want
good thing to be said about their stuff, it’s just I’ve always had modest aims for my
games and my blogs.
So I’m quite happy to only have four followers and a
modest number of visitors to this little corner to the web. I’ve also had one
nice person donate to me, who I choose to believe was THE Decker, and now Amazeroth
has very kindly draw me a piece of fan art which I love and will now use
everywhere. It helps a little that I’ve let everyone down by not actually
finishing anything; I don’t think I’m worth the praise until I produce a finish
product.
There is one advantage of being overshadowed by greater talents;
I’ve never yet been given overly negative comments. Now don’t get me wrong
criticism isn’t bad, and a well constructive criticism of something can be
useful. It sometime more useful to have someone tell you what they think isn’t
working in something than a generic what a “great job” message. I’ve always
encouraged people to tell me what they thought of my stuff including the
negatives, suggestions and bug fixes / typo seem to drive me to carry on
working on my games. Actually anything that reminds me of a game will generally
have the desired results anyhow. I’ve known of at least one game that been
bought to a halt, and possibly killed for good, by negative comments of this
game isn’t what I wanted and I think it suck now.
But don’t worry whilst my energy to write might wax and wane
it’ll take a lot to make me stop doing this completely.
This is a massive distraction from the fact that I’ve done
almost nothing on Bimbo. It’s mostly because the next bit is a fiddly bit of
code that isn’t difficult but just involves lots of time and effort. It’
amazing the thin that you’ll find to distract you when stuff like this show up.
But I’ve just renewed my RAGS license and I’m going to be diving into the guts
of the code anytime soon. And hopefully it won’t take a whole month before I
post anything her either.
