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First project too ambitious? NewDev question
Had a random spur of inspiration for a game world late one night and I don’t know what drew me to act on this one vs all the others I’ve had in the last 20 years or so but I downloaded GameMaker and a have a buddy that’s invested into the story and idea and we’re learning from scratch to make i…
The subreddit covers various game development aspects, including programming, design, writing, art, game jams, postmortems, and marketing. It serves as a hub for game creators to discuss and share their insights, experiences, and expertise in the industry.
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First project too ambitious? NewDev question
Had a random spur of inspiration for a game world late one night and I don’t know what drew me to act on this one vs all the others I’ve had in the last 20 years or so but I downloaded GameMaker and a have a buddy that’s invested into the story and idea and we’re learning from scratch to make it a reality. We have minimal coding experience with most of it being from courses in college but GML has been very easy to pick up so far.
Only thing is I feel our project is very ambitious for our starting point. We’re envisioning this old school FF4/5/6 turn based JRPG. We have a great story cooking with wiggle room to adjust if needed based on our skills/gameplay developments. We admittedly used AI to generate some example sprites of our characters but ultimately are also going to learn how to create pixel art to create our own sprites. We’re currently following a video guide specifically on how to make an RPG in GameMaker and once completed will adjust them for our game specifically.
On the one hand if we stick with this as our first game to develop we could learn a lot and come out with a lot more skills albeit there’s bound to be massive hurdles and frustration. On the other hand I’m curious, based on peer experience, if we should first focus on something smaller as some first projects before tackling our grand idea?