Re: Kyrieru's new game!
To clear some things up,
First of all, I don't really consider people who are complaining to be whining. They have good reason to be annoyed. While I never gave an ETA on Noaika, a lot of people donated under the impression that the game would be done soon. That's on me. That said, though, it does get very stressful to read, and after a while I began to dread reading comments instead of looking forward to it. Again, that's on me, and really I'm just looking forward to things going back to normal once the game is done
Second, regarding medical issues. I do have long-standing medical issues that have been slowing me down in the past year. However, one of the reasons why they have had such an impact on my work lately is because I kept trying to work through them, which in turn just made them worse. Without going into too much detail, I basically have two issues, one which could probably be managed with long-term lifestyle changes, and one which I'm more or less going to have to live with. Individually, at best they're little more than a inconvenience here and there. At worst, and when both effect me at once, it makes it difficult and sometimes nearly impossible to work.
However, that's not to say that my health is entirely to blame. that's only part of it. Noaika is simply a much larger project than I've ever worked on before, and frankly, I'm still learning how to deal with that kind of development.
For example, just in terms of programming, the larger a game gets, the more difficult it becomes to figure out what's causing a problem, let alone fix it without breaking something else in the process. I've redone collisions numerous times, sometimes over the course of a few days, only to realize later that it still doesn't work in some specific circumstance, or for some enemy, and then it's back to the drawing board. While I let programming mistakes slide in the past (*cough* GEARS *cough*), that sort of thing isn't acceptable anymore. At the very least, after this is all over with I'll at least have a much better idea of what I need to prepare for. (For example, image_xscale can go F*ck itself)
The rest is just psychological bullshit, stress, trying to kick my ass into gear when I should be working, and trying not to beat myself up over things when I shouldn't be.
Also, to the person who said I should post about streams on ULMF, I'll remember that for next time.
For those of you who think I'm going to make a 3d game, I probably won't try one until I've made at least 3-4 more 2d games.
