A hideous fruit, disgracing itself.
Allo-Aro
you look at NES games and you're like "that doesn't look too hard, that scope looks achievable to a small modern indie team with modern gamedev tools"
and then you try to execute on it and it takes literal years because making games is actually literally impossible
Of the two games I have actually vaguely completed, somehow the 3D tanks game with terrain deformation written in BASIC with art rendered entirely by code that I completed in like 2013(maybe, I'm not good with remembering years) was the easier one. The lasting impression I have gotten from this is computers don't make sense and video games are fake.
I have had easier time making games that could theoretically be ps2 titles than I ever had making anything that could be an nes title
there's something about 2d spaces that just really mess with my brain. a fundamental lack of familiarity with how to design in that scope that's distinct from my ability to play in it
I like to attribute game development to that of unironically making miracles happen, simply because of how much time is spent into making shit work as well as picking a god and praying shit doesn't explode on you when making something.
I still think about the mental breakdown of Gearbox devs working with the code for goldsrc sometimes
The game I have approximately 2/3rds written is based on an 8-bit classic. I started it in 2013...
I really should have thought twice before going for a lightweight RPG because that turns out to involve a lot of systems and also I am incapable of doing anything lightweight and my thoughts on what is interesting and fun in a game have changed radically in the last eleven years...
yeah RPGs are actually pretty systems, GUI, and content heavy :/ I've always wanted to make one but I've never felt prepared
