Projects catchup

The main project that I'm involved with at the moment is at a point where I'm waiting for feedback before continuing next week. The beauty of this is that it enables me to think about lining up possible work further down the line and do some work on my own project ideas.

This morning I'm actually spending some time on the RC1 project. It's good to return to this after not doing anythign with it for a few weeks - it gives me a better perspective on how it's shaping up. For instance, there are four main characters who have known each other for some time. This seemed to work well as a story, but as soon as I started thinking about gameplay I realised that I needed a different dynamic in order for the two to work well together. What I've done is change the situation so that the player character has never met one of the four characters and so becomes a means of talking about the things you would expect friends to know already, but which, as strangers, the characters can talk about and so inform the player.

Not only does it suit the gameplay much better, it also gives me additional ways to develop the humour and create an exciting, developing dynamic throughout the course of the game. I'm really pleased with this development.