Checking in

Hi everyone,

I know it's been a little while since my last update, just wanted to write something to tell everyone where the project is at.

I've been working on this game for longer than I hoped. All I wanted to do was make a remake of starland td so that I could relive those days again of spending hours building towers and battling people online. What I've made is... 'okay' in terms of quality and performance, but it's not exactly what I wanted to end up with. It could be much better, but I don't have the motivation or drive that I did at the start of this year to keep working on it. So that's why I'm only releasing one more update sometime soon (probably in january) and calling it quits.

I *was* going to also release an update later on that adds a spectator mode, but that's more work and I'm not willing enough to add a big feature like that, since it will also introduce more of it's own problems.

Next update is going to be mainly balance changes, minor bug fixes, and a few usability tweaks here and there. There will still be bugs, you may experience some weird networking issues but that's just how it will have to be. Sorry.

Thinking back, I don't think I should have made this game, at least not as my first individual game. I came into this project with a limited background on gamedev (but I was confident) and I made a lot of awkward decisions which stalled the project later on. The silver lining is I learned a lot from making this game for next time. Obviously if I could start again, a lot of things would be different, but that's just a natural feeling you get when you work on a project for so long (you just want to throw everything away and start all over).

I would absolutely love if someone came along, saw my game and thought 'hey, I can make something way better', and went ahead and made an even cooler version of starland td. I had more plans to expand upon the original game and add in new modes/towers etc. but I settled for just trying to recreate the original.

Getting past the current bugs and issues, I have had fun with friends playing the game online, so there's at least that. Plus I've met some really cool people in the starland td community that have helped me out. It's been awesome speaking with the original developer and meeting/playing with new people.

Anyway that's all for now, expect an update (hopefully) soon. Christmas is busy for everyone.

-eragnarok