Attention to detail always pays dividends, and Grey/Ipete/Sean I'm sure subscribe to this mentality. @Gellyware - can't agree more - I'd be well scuppered without my primary income.
Both ipete2 and Grey have some fantastic points:
Having an accurate brief is very important. If you cannot state what it is you are after, in an accurate and desciptive way then you are going to go around in circles forever. So, it is very important to have a clear vision and an overall understanding of how a game and its contents will function with each other. Development is an iterative process,
I agree with this if you have the benefit/cross to bear of developing in short time frames - but if you are a one man band there is a lot to be said for busting a gut and then sleeping on it for a while. Heck, even taking up a college course on top of your daily grind can give you that much needed break/fresh incentive/new outlook. Please bear in mind this perspective is very much from someone who has a very much diminishing amount of time to do 'personal code' due to work/life/family.... whoops that Should have been family/life/work - need to sort that out!
Gotta go, keep on coding - and as a wiseman used to quote in these parts:-
Finish your project - if you don't finish it I'll finish you myself (or words to that effect.....)
Both ipete2 and Grey have some fantastic points:
Having an accurate brief is very important. If you cannot state what it is you are after, in an accurate and desciptive way then you are going to go around in circles forever. So, it is very important to have a clear vision and an overall understanding of how a game and its contents will function with each other. Development is an iterative process,
I agree with this if you have the benefit/cross to bear of developing in short time frames - but if you are a one man band there is a lot to be said for busting a gut and then sleeping on it for a while. Heck, even taking up a college course on top of your daily grind can give you that much needed break/fresh incentive/new outlook. Please bear in mind this perspective is very much from someone who has a very much diminishing amount of time to do 'personal code' due to work/life/family.... whoops that Should have been family/life/work - need to sort that out!
@ grey: So it all comes down to FINISHING something even if it's not great. And then doing it again, but better and so on...
Gotta go, keep on coding - and as a wiseman used to quote in these parts:-
Finish your project - if you don't finish it I'll finish you myself (or words to that effect.....)