I’m planning to make this article mini-series, so in every post I’ll publish some techniques that I invented.

But what’s up?

We want our work to be as fun as possible, but often we get some hectic tasks. I can come up with couple of reasons:

1) Game design is iterative process. It means you have to do some things over and over. And it’s fine, because in this process, in every iteration you should have something better then before.

2) In every project you have some tasks that are really unpleasant to do. Even unrewarding for yourself, but you just have to do them. Someone has to. Otherwise for example you won’t have any content in your game. Someone has to add all of these names, numbers, etc. It’s schematic, it’s really boring, but better do this as good as possible!

3) Even if you continue something over many days you have to review you own work and work on it until you feel it’s good stuff. And you have to feel it, so if you will be tired then your won’t feel as clearly as if you would be relaxed.

And so on.

So my #1 Technique:

I’m working now at some adventure game, which storyline has to be very good and logical. And I didn’t even know that inventing stories can be so hard! Especially if it has to be told also by mini-games and some puzzles. But enough with that! Everyday I had to review and continue writing detailed story plan. I wrote it in Excel, so it would be easier to correct. But… reviewing everyday this spreadsheet became quickly very boring. So I thought and changed font to bigger size and printed a dozen of pages with my story plan. Then I glued them all together or you can staple them. You will get really long paper sheet Lay it on the floor, get some marker and read it from this perspective! In order to read everything you can slide this long page towards yourself or just walk alongs it. Every page stop and think. If you have some worries mark it with you marker and think again. Maybe you will come with the better idea Afterwards if you have some empty hooks on walls or ceiling then you can do something even crazier! Just hand this long paper on this hook. It would be even better if this hook is somewhere close to your PC. Then you can rewrite your corrections just looking at hanging paper, so you don’t have to stand up

For me it’s working. How about you guys?

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