What do you do when a project doesn't work out?
The way I see it, you can take it two different ways: positively and negatively. This week, development on Colony Rush was stopped due to a lack of funding. We're going to be positive here, so I won't even get into how to look at something negatively (why would you want to anyway?). The obvious thing to take away is to learn from any mistakes that were made; that is how you learn. However, it is often very easy to focus only on every single mistake and take on a pessimistic attitude. When a project doesn't come through, the best you can do is look back at what you accomplished rather than what you weren't able to do. At the beginning of my time at Reactuate Games, I knew next to nothing about C# or Unity, and after two and half months of development I was able to get a playable game working; a game that wasn't even clearly defined when we started working. It wouldn't win any awards by far, but to think that a developing programmer and artist (the artist, Katey Bluel, hadn't done much 3D work before this job) were able to create something in that amount of time is crazy.
You read that right, two people who started out at level 0 worked on the game and were able to bring it to life. Our marketing manager, Stephanie Whitlow, and boss, Ron Davis worked tirelessly promoting the game, but, sadly, we just ran out of time and money. It's also important to keep a positive attitude, even if you start to think a project is going downhill. It shows a lot of character and is a testament to ones's work ethic to continue working on something, even when the situation doesn't look good. I am glad to have had the experience I had at Reactuate Games, even if it didn't work out in the end. Now I will return to work on campus and switch gears back on web development. Now I have a lot more time on my hands to continue developing my skills and producing new projects of my own. Stay tuned for exciting new things to be announced!
Until Next Time,
"You try. You fail. You try. You fail. But the only true failure is when you stop trying."-Madame Leota
Until Next Time,
"You try. You fail. You try. You fail. But the only true failure is when you stop trying."-Madame Leota