A Question for Monday Morning
I spent a lot of the weekend working on a prototype for a new game. I had an idea for a simple game mechanic that I thought would be really fun. This happened Thursday night. I then spend Friday morning obsessively drawing concept art. By Friday afternoon I started coding. By Saturday evening I had a playable prototype which turned out to be quite fun.
I had been working on a non-game utility app that I was quite excited about. However, this game concept grabbed my brain and pulled. I’m going to spend a couple more days playing with the prototype code to see if it’s worth developing into a full game. At that point I’ll decide whether to go back and finish the utility app or do this game. I do run a games company, after all.
Ah yes, the question I mention in the subject. This is something I started thinking about during the updates to Dapple but didn’t feel like it was worth starting near the end of a project. I’ve been thinking about recording some developer video diaries, but wondered if that was something anyone had any desire in watching?
The videos would be short (1-2 mins each) and would document the process of creating this new game. I think that games development is exciting, but I wondered if anyone else was curious enough about the development process to watch the videos.
Thoughts? Comments? Opinions?
Owen
I think they would be interesting. It would be nice if you could download them from the podcast section of iTunes as well but I would definatly watch.
Yes, I’d be definitely interested in watching! I also teach in a CS course and know some students that would also want to watch it.
Good luck.
Do it. It’s incredibly easy to create a screencast on a Mac. As long as you’re under the 10 minute count you can also host them on YouTube to save yourself the bandwidth.
Go for it, I’ll be watching
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Absolutely — our students here at U of T would enjoy it a lot.
I think it would be great. I’ve been blogging about starting a game company and developing apps, so I think that a video diary would be very compelling. I’d certainly be interested in watching the videos – about as interested I am in reading your blog (which I do regularly).
Sounds a like a great idea – I think this sort of thing is becoming more and more popular, even w/ non devs. Looking forward to it!
Of course, I would watch it
Yes yes yes!
I think it’s a great idea. From another developer’s perspective it’s always nice to see how somebody else goes about doing things just to make sure that the way I am working isn’t completely wacked…
Having them be a distributed as a video podcast would also be sweet just for being able to get it onto my iPhone.
I’m a bit late to the party, but I’d be happy to see it!