Ugh...the flipside of the coin is that I've been given a golden opportunity here, alone in the fact that my parents were nice enough to loan me close to $17,000 of their own money (so far)...so that I could follow my dream of making this game, I need to do it just for them. I also want this so bad...part of me wants to be the ambitious 20 year old guy making a commercial game by himself....the other part just wants to forget it and hang out with my friends and just bullshit around all day.
I do have a worldwide publishing agreement signed for my game, and I'm on a tight schedule to make the first deadline for the 2006 Independent Games Festival, so I don't have time for anything else these days. My life is my game right now, and I guess I wouldn't have it any other way.
I go through this process all the time, and every time I come to the realization that if I can just get this game done everything will be fine....and this time is no exception :-) but damn if it's not difficult sometimes.
In game news: Ragdolls are coming along nicely, I'm polishing them up, and working on adding a picking feature to all the physics objects so I can throw stuff around. Also working on applying a forces to the gunshots so you can shoot every object int the environment. I can't wait to add sounds to all the physics stuff, and make it so you can shoot out windows/tires on the vehicles, that will look very cool in gun fights.
- Dan
Let that be some motivation for you. Hang in there buddy, your doing an outstanding job.
If you need anybody to blow off some steam too or just to BS with, send a shout out to my e-mail or my instant messenger.
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