Day 7 Of CDN ‘08 Speedgame

Posted by CPUFreak91 on August 7th, 2008 filed in Game Competitions, Games, Programming, Project Difficulty: Easy, Time Spent: More than 2 hours

Today I learned a new thing about game making. Artists need inspiration! Lots of it at times. During the start of this speedgame, Jeff and I had talked about doing this together. We weren’t too sure he’d get a chance to do the art, so I went all over the web looking for placeholder art.

When I showed Jeff a demo I got a different response than I expected. Other than traces of artistic repulsion, seeing an ugly world inspired him to make it better. He got no inspiration from seeing my ideas written down, but immediately grasped the feeling that I was creating with the game world when he got to see the demo with placeholder art.

I’ve learned a valuable lesson, don’t ever wait for any art whatsoever. Just find some placeholder art to throw in the game. Your artist will most likely be very inspired.

On a side note, I haven’t gotten anywhere with new gameplay. I have, however, created a better looking world.