Comments on: 21 Things That Will Help You Finish Your Game

By: Juuso

Juuso — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:57:57 +0000

Hmm, old post but this was a good one.

Had to comment :)

By: James

James — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:06:53 +0000

I sort of disagree with the notion to avoid meetings. Meetings can be invigorating if only because they are scary. When you schedule meetings not only do you make a commitment to others to be there, but you also make a commitment to show some progress.

Take it from someone who has been to meetings with nothing to show, or nearly ended up in such a position–it’s socially terrifying.

Meetings also allow you to bounce ideas off others and vice-versa, using each other as sounding boards. After all, two-heads ARE better than one.

The one thing to avoid is design-by-committee. You know, those meetings were each person chips in a mediocre idea that disregards the harmony of the design as a whole, followed by everyone spontaniously agreeing that the idea in question is an awesome idea. Another common term for this is “circle-jerking”, but enough of that.

If your interested in the topic you might want to pursue further reading. A good place to start is “Tools for Teams: Building effective Teams in the Workplace” which is a book composed of several extracts from other texts, and utilized by the University of Phoenix as regular course material.

On an unrelated note I find your blog both refreshing and insightful in many aspects. It has a taste of the amateur which attests to both the authors experience and veracity.

By: Legendary Hoamaru

Legendary Hoamaru — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:30:35 +0000

#9 and #11 are extremely great suggestions, and it’s something I always do with my projects now. I love seeing the progress and it also gets other people interested knowing that the project is still going on strong.

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:53:13 +0000

Putting a deadline is not impossible. It’s pretty easy actually… I’ll publish an article about this in a minute :)

By: Lamonte | Free FPS Games

Lamonte | Free FPS Games — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:44:09 +0000

Putting a deadline. I think you shouldn’t put a deadline on the complete project as thats nearly impossible unless your an A List game developer and is never late. I think it’s best to put deadlines on single areas of your game.

For example: 1. 1 week to create a story line, Due Date: 2.25.09; 2. 2 days to outsource sketch art & 3D Designs for them sketch designs

etc.. good post though.

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:22:10 +0000

Yeh, #5 is the tricky one ;)

By: Toni Mäkinen

Toni Mäkinen — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:01:02 +0000

Well, 12 out of 21. That’s pretty good… NOT. Man, I need to make more rule number 5