Haxus Wrote:Nobody would have taken this thing seriously. Now there’s a chance.
Minty Wrote:hgjhfgjhAssuming laughter, is Shores of Hazeron really that hopeless? ;)
There's been some rough bugs lately but we're getting past that. Things will firm up nicely for a while, now that the brute force work on gen 4 animals is past. A quick glance shows that weeks of mind bending work resulted in an increase of around 45,000 lines of code, enough to fill two 500 page books. There's bound to be a few bugs in there. I'm weeding them out as quickly as I can.
Nobody is holding a gun to my head to do this. I don't even get paid. I could save a tremendous amount of money, get fat, travel, spend time with my family, and live happily ever after, if I bailed on this project. I considered it a couple of times while working on the new animals; they had some tough moments and I knew Shores of Hazeron could not continue without them; failure meant the end.
Shores of Hazeron is something I do because I want to do it. My heroes are science fiction writers. It's my way of being a science fiction writer too. Maybe somebody will nominate me for an award some day, haha. :D
Once in a while, I find myself hoping this project will make enough money to pay the server bills. That would bring some relief but it doesn't drive me. I don't actually think about it that often.
What I enjoy is creating this stuff without having to answer to anyone. I have created something huge that noone has ever made before. And nobody is likely to repeat it anytime soon, because of the vast amount of work required. It doesn't fit the development model for main stream game developers. And I'm not done yet.
This freedom of expression trumps a presence on Steam. The only reason I continue to entertain the idea of publishing Shores of Hazeron on Steam is their terms are agreeable to me.