Blue 2

I read my past blogs just now. Thinking that since I'm planning to continue with this game I'd write a blog and then I see how it ended last time. Funny that it's almost exactly two years since I worked on this game last (not that I'm working on it yet. I'm mostly doing non-working on it at the moment) it feels like a lot less. It's always been in the backburner and I've been thinking about the game but always put it off because I sort of got stuck like I often do.

The problem is plot. I notice in my previous posts that I made some breakthroughs but in the end they are not true breakthroughs. They are worldbuilding and setting up plot. That's actually fairly easy. But actual plot? It all feels kinda stupid most of the time. Especially when I get down to dialogue that I feel need to bring exposition while not being too long and it's all just shit.

It honestly is.

Funny also how I felt I had worked really hard then two years ago. Sometimes I get these runs of inspiration. Though I was also more or less unemployed then so I kinda could have them.

But now I have a plot-related breakthrough. Almost. Now I know what is going to happen in the "demo" that I'm planning. The demo will probably not be longer than the original Blue but it has a definite structure to it. And I also have a vague idea where it will go after this "demo" ends. Though hopefully I can get player input on that once they play it.

Of course it's only almost a breakthrough because there's still the detail-work that is lacking. Villain motivations and dialogue and stuff. The damn dialogue. I'd like it to be hard-boiled and maybe a bit full of fun stuff but still not ridiculous, stupid or a parody. The idea is that this game, after all, is pretty serious.

But I also have enough stuff to know that there are some art assets I should be able to make that I have to make. (like cybercommandos! With guns! Frozen Synapse have had a bit of an impact no doubt)

I might go deeper into plot-related stuff in another post at another time. Right now I just felt I should get this off my chest a bit. And if I talk enough about the fact that I'm going to start working then maybe one day I'll actually start working.