Yo-Ho, Yo- Ho! A Pirate I'll Never Be!

     I just can't do it. I can see why people do though. No money, not sure you'll even like the game, it's not available on your platform of choice, all good reasons. I just stand firm in my belief of supporting people who make the things I like. I do it so they have a reason to make more. I don't even get used games unless there are no new copies left in any game stores nearby. Voting with your dollars is one of the many ways every individual shapes the world. I don't even sneak popcorn into movie theaters because I want to support the theater that plays the movie I'm seeing (the food is only expensive because they aren't making enough money because people sneak in food because the food is expensive).

     You give, and you get back. Piracy hurts the developers. Games are crazy expensive to make, and to think that simple mobile games ask for $1 (small fries at McDonalds, or less than a soda out of a vending machine) and took some guys about a year to make, and people who actually like it would rather pirate it. It hurts. Heck, even Crysis abandoned PC exclusivity because of the rampant pirating.

     To get a feel for it first hand check out Game Dev Tycoon. If you pirate the game, you'll reach a point where your business fails because of most of your fans are pirating your games and you can't stay afloat. 

Expect Delays: Pokemon X & Y Came Out

     It's a good thing I took this into account when planning out how long Candy Catch Shop will take. There's no way I'd miss this gaming event. This game has, and will continue to, consume my entire weekend. I'll call it my mini-vacation. I'm learning a lot just from playing it anyway, like I do with every game I play, so if anything I'm studying the thing and finding lots of improvements.

    

     Now, I gotta get back to training to create the greatest Charizard who ever lived.

Status Report #7

   Sprites are done, but sounds are next. I may get started with coding in the meantime though. Candy Catch is on it's way and I'm going to be distracted with playing Pokemon Y with my girlfriend very soon. See what I DID do all week after the break.

Making Fish Feaster - Part 3

     Once I had a game up and running all I needed to do was add some pretty fish and ambient sounds. I thought it would take me a few weeks at most. Maybe even a month, I did have a lot of fish to make after all. I also wanted to scale them all for each size the fish could possibly be. Pixel-by-pixel perfection. My game was going to be beautiful. Oh how foolish I was...