#5 - Ethereal Masters and future projects

So after a long 7 months of planning, coding, design and false hopes, Ethereal Masters was finally completed and uploaded to both Newgrounds and, of course, deviantArt. I guess I should feel proud, but I can't help but feel this game is a failure. Two of the three principles of a good flash games are missing; simplicity and stimulation (the other being versatility). I guess I realized it too late. I was blinded by my desire for sponsorship (which I didn't get, bummer) and my irrational love for Tetra Master. That's not how I'll become a great game developer! *slaps self*

Anyway, I'm still rather proud of myself, I mean, it's not like this game was totally bad, it still has some appeal. I don't think I'll make any more card games though, not in flash anyway. I've been thinking about it today and I know exactly what my next game will be. Remember Jackal on the NES? Think that but with actual objectives, more action and fully customizable. That's all I'm saying for now

In other news, gotta move out of my college's dorms in a month and I'm afraid to find myself in a noisy, dirty and lonely place, I'll make it through though; I found out I can't get my driving license this summer so I'll head for the scooter one so I can at least drive a motorized vehicle, that's better than nothing and it will be good practice for the real thing anyway; and since I didn't get any kind of revenues for my game, I need to find a job even more, and I don't want to sound pessimistic but jobs are really scarce around here so I'll need quite a bit of luck.

I just hope next time around, things will be more in my favor, even though I've been saying this for like 5 years =/