Now we are here, at the end of all things, I felt I should combine the last weeks process post and do a little evaluative review of the entire process I had, regarding the time-schedule and how I managed difficulties and so on. After this I will write a post about my thoughts about the project I handed in.
First of all, the entire process was a bit skewed because of my late start - which was my fault, but it is still a fact of the matter.
Besides that, I realized once I had started and were researching how to overcome certain obstacles, and especially programming-wise, that I did not want to cut corners on the project from a longevity-standpoint - as in, I created everything in order to support continued work.
For example, the dialogue and combat system, which could have been created on a case-by-case basis, are instead examples of multi-threaded programming that can be expanded as much as needed with very little work compared.
Another example - several of the characters have joints and parts which were drawn separately in order to be better for animation, even if I did not have enough time in the end to use them - but that comes later.
I managed to pick myself up and reschedule my remaining time, and even though the programming took longer than expected - in essence, because I wanted to continue working on it, it became a much more programming-oriented project than I had envisioned - I still managed to complete my list of tasks.
In the future, I believe I will allocate more time to programming, and continuously evaluate whether or not some pursuit is worth it - I spent a long time trying to make the models appear flat like paper for example, which in the end taught me a lot, but it also took away time from other things.
I did think the blog was a bit of a nuisance at times, but I do think I will continue blogging in some shape or form - maybe only if I have something I am really pleased with though.
In the end, I am decently pleased with the process - it was tough going at times.
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