Re-Release from 21th of January 2019 Dev Diary;

Hi, and welcome again for the weekly dev diary of Project Taival!

I have been busy with the marketing side of things, which has left less time to the game it self, but I managed to get two things done at once - recorded a video while I was doing the details for one room of the apartment building.

The Timelapse

I'm currently editing the #timelapse video, but are having a hard time learning the scripting side of AviSynth. This would be a good thing to learn to automate much of the video processing work in a lossless manner. The problem is, that what first seemed to be working, now appears to be too much for my computer to handle, as the plugin I need to use is old and doesn't handle big files well. More precisely, the plugin fills the entire RAM and throws a fatal error after over 22000 processed frames.

I'm currently looking for ways to automate video segmenting to smaller files, which should get around this error. I'll be updating the #progress on either the next Dev Diary or before, if I get the problem solved earlier.

Detailing the Room

Kitchen counters and cupboards.

I decided that I would first try to finish one room, so that the end results are seen faster. This should also streamline the progress a bit, as the generic cupboards are found in every house in this apartment building. There will be more individual assets to every house, so that none of the interior decorations are the same, but it's good to start with assets that are to be used most often.

I'm also exploring how it will affect the size of the game, if I integrate some assets with the underlying architecture. For example, if I make the baseboards/skirtings integral to the floor. This would save very much time when I need to put the assets to right places in the Game Editor.

There has also been many videos, that give great lessons on how a starting game developer can maximize the efficiency of the workloads. I especially like to watch the Game Dev Underground and Atmos Games for reference on how to be a successful indie game developer. If you have any interest in being a Game Developer or have interest in Indie Games in general, I would warmly recommend these channels.

Situation on #YouTube in general

Since it would take time off from my game development, doing comprehensive talking videos might not be the best choice at this point - including the lack of suitable space to do recordings. Most efficient way that I have thus far come up with is to record timelapses and possibly record my speech either for the entirety or part of the video, if I'm not using music in the videos.

Second topic on this issue is the teaser, which I would like to complete as soon as possible. After doing some research, it seems that doing it in Blender might actually be the best way to make it, so back to learning blender for me. The learning experience has been really sporadic for me, as I need to try and handle everything at this point on development and building a audience base is one of the more important things even at early on, to show where you come and what have you learned. Most important thing to show here is how willing are you to learn new things.

Website planning

I'm also planning on the style for a website for the game and I think I have found a suitable style for both, desktop and mobile users. I'll be releasing more details about this on the next weeks Dev Diary. If you have any recommendations on the layout or graphics for the theme (dark, snowy winter), please feel free to make suggestions

That's it for this weeks Dev Diary, thank you for your continued support.