It was too soft. Damnit!

I have a problem (unrelated to my bad cooking skills). Well, actually, three problems: I am a bad programmer, I am impulsive, and I have no time.

Why am I a bad programmer? Obviously! I study at TAU (I blame scipio).

Actually, I don’t think I am, but I am a bad designer. Did you know Star Relic was originally an arcade shooter back in March? I even wrote a full design document. Three months into development, I discarded it all.

Why am I impulsive? Well, I discarded three months work because I had a better idea in mind, and also because I didn’t really understand why am I making another arcade game. Nautilus was an experiment rather than something I really wanted to do. Doing another one of these would not be enjoying on the long run. So I gave up. Thus, High Orbit was born, which later acquired the name of the dead “arcade” Star Relic. Development since then has been progressing very nicely, until…

Why don’t I have time? Six courses at TAU + maintaining a relationship across Europe + being silly and not thinking of all design problems I’d have with Star Relic.

So yes. Star Relic is moving slowly since I don’t have time to fix all the design bugs. In addition, each time I fix something, I yell to the heavens and spam my girlfriend’s mailbox: “AMORE! I FINALLY FIXED THAT STUPID BUG!”. Ten minutes later, I find out that the Klosian Phaser unit warps in outside of the visible game board. The code looks like a complete mess now, and I think I broke every Object Oriented programming principle in the rulebook…