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dmxratedWatched this documentary called Indie Game yesterday on Roku. I've actually noticed it on the archives for a while, but Mom suggested I give it a watch after I had a breakdown following the total price Jake estimated that someone he knew would charge for some spritesheets alone.
Not that I actually thought anything would be cheap, but there is the fact that Dad didn't immediately have much for me to do besides vacuuming the basement when I first asked him about stuff I could do for money. I've only made two bank deposits recently, raising my personal budget to so far just $388.
This is why I desperately need a job, before I commission for anything at all. Doesn't help that the agencies that were supposed to have expertise in finding work, and were supposed to be acquainted with people who were willing to hire autistic folks, hardly actually did anything meaningful for three years after I finished college until Mom and I both decided to sever ties with VESID after that whole deal with Community Enterprises.
So far, Mom and I have been meaning to go over this book together covering job-seeking advice for autistic people. However, she did notice a link to the Occupational Outlook Handbook website, and advised me to have a look at that, but I'm gonna need her help on where to start looking and what to rule out on that site.
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Yeah, about that movie... As you'd expect, the folks behind Fez, Braid, and Super Meatboy among other games were just a few individuals who got together and decided to live out their dreams while also having their games published for Xbox Live Arcade. One of the first things even said in the film was that part of it is about not trying to be professional or trying to cater to the masses. And yet, even though Fez got fucked up due to some last-minute changes to its coding, the other two sold extremely well despite being simple platforming games.
Of course, none of those games have any deep story to them, which is the #1 thing I've been seeking for Starbound (more so than even the game itself, with only the original flavor of the Earthbound trilogy taking equal priority). Seeking more collaborators for Starbound's story was the whole point behind starting my pursuit of a game demonstration in the first place, which would then be placed on YouTube to attract fans of both Lucky Star and the Earthbound trilogy, where in turn I would open up storyboarding as just one of the different aspects of the game available for anyone interested.
Sent an email to the Mother 4 development team last night, asking for tips on how to get my own project off the ground. Whether they actually get back to me or not is up in the air. According to Jake, though, they probably needed to hire a studio rather than individuals in order to get storyboarders among others for the project, but that can't be right since they don't actually own the rights to the Earthbound property and will be distributing the game online for free when it's done.
Here are all the staff, btw.
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In any case, I'm already tired of thinking about either version of Starbound at this point. Right now, I'm just gonna have a break from the whole thing, like I did between the fanfic's second and third chapters, and find other stuff to focus on. Namely, back to JavaScript, since Brian will be coming back home in just a couple of weeks.
I will still be in charge of creating prototype maps for at least the overworld, since those need to be at least somewhat consistent with their real-world counterparts. When I get back to that, I'm probably gonna be using screenshots of Google Maps to utilize in Gimp, and create a layer over those on which to decide what to reproduce, where, and how.
Not that I actually thought anything would be cheap, but there is the fact that Dad didn't immediately have much for me to do besides vacuuming the basement when I first asked him about stuff I could do for money. I've only made two bank deposits recently, raising my personal budget to so far just $388.
This is why I desperately need a job, before I commission for anything at all. Doesn't help that the agencies that were supposed to have expertise in finding work, and were supposed to be acquainted with people who were willing to hire autistic folks, hardly actually did anything meaningful for three years after I finished college until Mom and I both decided to sever ties with VESID after that whole deal with Community Enterprises.
So far, Mom and I have been meaning to go over this book together covering job-seeking advice for autistic people. However, she did notice a link to the Occupational Outlook Handbook website, and advised me to have a look at that, but I'm gonna need her help on where to start looking and what to rule out on that site.
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Yeah, about that movie... As you'd expect, the folks behind Fez, Braid, and Super Meatboy among other games were just a few individuals who got together and decided to live out their dreams while also having their games published for Xbox Live Arcade. One of the first things even said in the film was that part of it is about not trying to be professional or trying to cater to the masses. And yet, even though Fez got fucked up due to some last-minute changes to its coding, the other two sold extremely well despite being simple platforming games.
Of course, none of those games have any deep story to them, which is the #1 thing I've been seeking for Starbound (more so than even the game itself, with only the original flavor of the Earthbound trilogy taking equal priority). Seeking more collaborators for Starbound's story was the whole point behind starting my pursuit of a game demonstration in the first place, which would then be placed on YouTube to attract fans of both Lucky Star and the Earthbound trilogy, where in turn I would open up storyboarding as just one of the different aspects of the game available for anyone interested.
Sent an email to the Mother 4 development team last night, asking for tips on how to get my own project off the ground. Whether they actually get back to me or not is up in the air. According to Jake, though, they probably needed to hire a studio rather than individuals in order to get storyboarders among others for the project, but that can't be right since they don't actually own the rights to the Earthbound property and will be distributing the game online for free when it's done.
Here are all the staff, btw.
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In any case, I'm already tired of thinking about either version of Starbound at this point. Right now, I'm just gonna have a break from the whole thing, like I did between the fanfic's second and third chapters, and find other stuff to focus on. Namely, back to JavaScript, since Brian will be coming back home in just a couple of weeks.
I will still be in charge of creating prototype maps for at least the overworld, since those need to be at least somewhat consistent with their real-world counterparts. When I get back to that, I'm probably gonna be using screenshots of Google Maps to utilize in Gimp, and create a layer over those on which to decide what to reproduce, where, and how.
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Date: 2019-07-17 11:42 am (UTC)To start with, I once asked Jake to read the fan-novelization Earthbound 199X to see if its author did just that. However, when I brought it up on The Fanfiction Forum, someone told me that trying to capture the feeling of the original work by looking at someone else's fan-adaptation isn't a good way to go on about it. I told him then that reading it would be a moot point.
Later on, when I read a chapter or two of Jake's Pokemon fic Pokemon Johto: The Funne Version to compare to the EB trilogy, I commented in an email that it would be more comparable to Arn's Winter Quest than to the regular EB games. He told me that he wasn't trying to emulate anything, and was instead just trying to be funny in his own way (which I wouldn't be surprised if that's what Saori Kumi did as well when writing Mother: The Original Story).
The thing is, I just don't want the Hooters situation and a moment where Tristan gets briefly superpowered to be the only humorous moments or aspects not taken right from the games. (The former was Jake's idea, and the latter is based on something from Yoshi's Island.) We both know that humor is neither my strong point nor yours. However, you already did suggest I derive stuff from dreams, so there is that at least.
In any case, I suppose I could settle for something more similar to 199X than to Earthbound itself, as long as it's not always too dark and gritty (which it will be sometimes). So, even though that fic is dead at this point, would it be okay if I ask you to give it a read, and then we discuss how to keep in line with that whenever we talk about my fic at all?
Edit: Actually, not really sure why I just asked you to read that fic, since you wouldn't really be able to make any kind of comparison between it and the original game, not having played the game. If anything, I suppose I should consider my own fic already in line with that one. You might still find the fic interesting in and of itself, though.
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Date: 2019-07-17 11:43 am (UTC)