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Re: High Tail Hall 2 Beta
« Reply #60 on: October 04, 2021, 02:39:28 pm »
Ya know, if we are able to get this done in the foreseeable future, we could work on our own iteration or spiritual successor to HTH. Because I'm going to be honest... the **** coding Crow has is atrocious to navigate and work around.

My intention was first to make offline version of somewhat broken online HTH because Crow has been promising that for years and then he refused to make it stating that it would take him months of effort that he want to spend on Unity port. I was committed to show everyone that it's a poor excuse, it took me around 2 hours to iteratively download all referenced files and convert then to offline version. Basically all it needed was to decompile file and replace all absolute file links (https:...) with relative file paths. Then it took me weeks to fix beyond measure counts of codding errors.
Second, it was enabling and implementing unused stuff hidden in files. Crow started so many things and ideas, abandoning all early in implementation. He absolutely lacks any work determination. I'm already beyond my plans with HTH.
I've never had any plans for game spin off, I just want to finish the HTH into the state Crow was supposed to years ago.

Regarding game development, I've already posted that in the past.
I would really enjoy adult game development. Particularly I would love to create 3D characters and implement body physics model so it could walk and interact without any keyframed animations. I suck at drawing and art generally. I'm quite experienced engineer, good at physics, electronic and computer science. The physical models is one of few things I could do well.

Unfortunately, I can't do that, my life went an opposite way. In order to be good indie game developer, one has to devote his life to that. That means to be a single loner with no friends, no hobbies, no serious job, living for free in parent's basement. :-)
(un)fortunately that's not my life and I can't go that way. I'm your average neighbor. I have good serious job, wife, kids, friends, a house to upkeep, cars to fix. So my free time is quite thin. And this is not even my only hobby. After all, I couldn't live in my parent's basement, they are both long dead. [insert black humor emoticon here]
It's not like one way of life is better than another. I know some guys who qualify for the game developer type, I can see some advantages in their lives. They are less tired, lot of free time and they are free to do whatever they want.