Keeping Motivated

Well, and there must be a million of these types of blog posts out there, but as you can see, not many updates as of late. It’s not so much that the game development has come to a stand still (still need art assets to get done), but I’m just poor at keeping a blog, especially when it doesn’t look as good as I would like.

Also, I have so many blogs to keep.

I’m not really sure what sites are thinking people should do when they offer blogging services to everyone. Take IGN for example, they now have a blogging service based off of WordPress too. 1up.com has always given its users blog space, as well as Gametrailers.com, Gameinformer.com, Gamepro.com, Giantbomb.com, the list goes on and on.

I guess one could just write one blog and copy/paste it everywhere. It gets the post a lot of hits, even if they’re scattered across a myriad of websites, but in the interests of keeping the internet somewhat manageable, shouldn’t the elimination of that kind of spam be something everyone strives for?

To keep this from turning into an excuse post, positives!

The game progresses on and should be mostly playable by the end of the week. I’m thinking of ways to make the game feel like it has more meat to it than just a simple educational game. Like how Plants vs. Zombies has the Zen Garden and the Tree of Wisdom elements that keep you playing long after you’ve finished the Adventure Mode.

I was playing Yakuza 2 a few weeks ago, and it really surprised me how the hostess bar management mini game could be so compelling even though, for the most part, it was all about charts and graphs showing off sales data.

There’s something to that. I don’t know what it is yet, but I want to find it.