{"id":439,"date":"2016-02-24T22:48:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T20:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T15:21:01","slug":"game-2-some-kind-of-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/game-2-some-kind-of-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 2: Some Kind of Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a few weeks\u00a0of pondering which game I want to do next I had this epiphany of the obvious: make some prototypes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;Whenever you don&#8217;t know which road to take follow each of them for a short time.&#8221;<\/em> (Steve Pavlina)<\/p>\n<p>This long time\u00a0of pondering was necessary, even if it feels like wasted time. It flagged many important questions\u00a0I have to consider BEFORE I start the game:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How long should it take from start to release?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the game&#8217;s scope?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the game&#8217;s main feature\/mechanic?<\/li>\n<li>Content: high demand (RPG) or low (Tetris)?<\/li>\n<li>Content: what can\/should be generated, what&#8217;s going to be handcrafted?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the budget?<\/li>\n<li>How\u00a0to market the game? Where?<\/li>\n<li>Support modding?<\/li>\n<li>How to slaughter pirates and decorate your castle walls with their heads?<\/li>\n<li>What would help to build\u00a0and maintain a community?<\/li>\n<li>What will be the biggest risks (e.g. uncharted coding territory)?<\/li>\n<li>How to fund this game? How to market the funding?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the revenue model?<\/li>\n<li>Which platforms should I aim for?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the best engine for the game?<\/li>\n<li>Which graphics styles and themes are effective and affordable?<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to over-analyze this. Yet it&#8217;s necessary to get clear about important things like time budget, scope, audience and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just one gut decision I can&#8217;t overcome by rationalization:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-446 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/iso_pcg_time-2-480x451.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/iso_pcg_time-2-480x451.png 480w, http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/iso_pcg_time-2.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheers,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few weeks\u00a0of pondering which game I want to do next I had this epiphany of the obvious: make some prototypes. &#8220;Whenever you don&#8217;t know which road to take follow each of them for a short time.&#8221; (Steve Pavlina) This long time\u00a0of pondering was necessary, even if it feels like wasted time. It flagged<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trinity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackgolem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}