WHAT KIND OF FOCUS DO YOU USE FOR YOUR GAMES?

Do you focus on one game but whatever ideas you have while making it might be made into another game?

This happens quite often. I might find myself brainstorming a new boss and think it would be better suited for a different theme-based project.

Are you like me and make a lot of different games at the same time?

AKA the perfect plan to never complete anything :P

I usually spend half of my game making time writing pre-production documents and the other half coding a game or drawing resources. I try to keep my "in production" projects to a minimum (I have around 12 at the moment, which is way too many, but I've only been working on 2 for the past 3 weeks or so).

Since summer I really want to complete Crystalis so hopefully it won't take years to do so (In twelve years of making I only completed one crappy DBS game). But once in a while I'll start a new project to try and code new gameplay mechanics and systems.

EDIT: Oh, it's Funky_Guns eh?

author=Wave_Guns
Do you focus on one game but whatever ideas you have while making it might be made into another game?

That.

I used to try to multi-task by working on 2-3 games at once, but that would always end up with one being forgotten about and then eventually abandoned due to lack of attention.

I only concentrate on one game at a time now, which is definitely the way to go in my opinion. However, this doesn't stop me from thinking of ideas for what to do for my next project. Currently I am thinking heavily about a modern crime game where the player is a member of a pretty elite syndicate and I want to have a go at it in VX Ace. I'm still not thinking too much about it yet though and I've only come up with character names/personalities so far because I really only want to concentrate on one game AT ALL for now. Fortunately it is almost finished!

Step 1: Try to come up with a cool CBS.
Step 2: Encounter an obstacle and quit.
Rinse and repeat.

After a bowlful of FFFFUUU- sweat has been accumulated, finally realize to just go with the DBS until you start the cycle again.

I'm on my first game, but my approach for writing stories is to write one at a time, from beginning to end, in order. If I get bored writing a scene, my readers will get bored reading it, so I rewrite in such a way that scene either becomes more interesting, or stops being necessary. If I get an idea for another story while I'm working on my current story, I write down notes, and maybe outline a bit, but I don't write a word of the story proper until my current story is complete and has gone through all edits (with the exception that I may start another story while waiting for a volunteer editor to look over my current story.)

So far, the only way I've found that I'll need to change this when designing games is that I should probably design the combat after the story is complete, since combat takes so long to resolve each time it's played through.