Good Saturday dreamers!
As usually I take my time to write the post of my past week. I’m very proud of my week especially for my job as a software tester. This is my second week and I’m already up and I started to work “for real”.
I like this job because all the colleagues I’ve work with have been very collaborative with me and they are happy about me and they told me!
37 minutes of Othercide
Today I want to say a copule of words about a new game that I played this week (steam said that I played it for exactly 37 minutes). Othercide.
It is a turn based tactic game. There’s some relation with another game that I love: Darkest Dungeon. The feeling is of a game really tough with the concept of easy death of the characters.
I like a lot the concept to have really good 3D animation of the characters even if it is a turn-based (so it’s not that important). Definitely is an element that made me decide to buy it.
Talking about the theme, it is something that I love. The fear of the unknown. It’s not clear what kind of power has the enemy, his real power… So fascinating! The next week I will try to play it again.
Waiting GGJ
This year I decided to do something crazy. I will join to the Global Game Jam. I will attend with Event Horizon, a School of digital arts here in Italy.
GGJ is a global event (of couse) that involve a lot of programmers, artists, game designer, etc. It’s a challenge of 48h at the end of which the partecipants or teams have to deliver a working prototype of a game with a specific theme revealed during a keynote in the opening ceremony.
The theme of this year is DUALITY.
I will partecipate from remote. I think is a pity, because the real GGJ is the suffering together in the same room, helping each other, but the covid has stop a lot of this kind of experience, so… It’s ok. Soft GGJ for me this year.
I’m not sure that I will have time to write my weekly post because the event will start on Friday evening and it will end on Sunday, and I’m sure that I will be very stunned at the end.
We’ll see!
About my project
I keep working on my super secret project! I deliver to my precious testers (Matte & Pic) a new release of the game he was really happy about the modification. A lot of work in graphics improvement, UI and some logics.
What you need to know is that, at the beginning I decided to take a budget of time and money to dedicate to this project.
Time budget of 300 hours (including coding, design, UI, optimizations and my testing activity) and a money cap of 1000€.
To the present day I spent this resources: 23/300h (7.5%) and 40/1000€ (4%)
I hope to give to you a lot of information about the game as soon as possible, but I guess I need almost 150h on 300 to put it on kind of open beta testing.
We’ll see next week (I hope!) with my story about the GGJ!
Bye!
