So this weekend was the Global Game Jam. The jist of it is that game developers all around the world meet up in their respective cities and divide into teams. They’re given a theme (this year’s was “Extinction”) and all the teams have 48 hours to develop a game based on that theme. I’ve done some super short game dev competitions back in my hobby days and they’re always fun because you’re forced to focus on game design and getting to work, no slacking off or slowing down. It’s pretty incredible how much you can get done in a weekend when you’re motivated.

Back to working on the game’s art! I’m probably 3/4 of the way done the in-game art, and then I’ll just have to do the title/menu art. I figure by the end of the week I should be done the in-game art and I can contact some programmers and get some estimates. Hopefully I can get them started next week, then a couple weeks of dev/testing time and I can submit to Apple. I still have a lot to do, but it’s all small managable tasks. And considering I’m juggling all the side stuff (marketing, E-Mail, Twitter, blog updates with videos/charts, going to my weekly business class, etc.) I’d say I’m doing pretty decent! It feels like it’s been WAY longer than 22 days to me haha

Here’s another example of optimization. I had a 21 frame throwing star originally, plus a glow effect for each frame, which was for one full loop of the star turning.