I have been spending my time managing the art team, learning the Torque 2D game engine, adding cultural information to the “help” section of the design doc, and working on character sketches, Taino word lists, and the cut scene stories we will need for our game. To say it is a full time job is putting it lightly!!
We have a great core of artists that are making great progress in making our 3D models of people and huts. I hope to have them complete soon so we can finish up on the other required game objects. We are also experimenting with the backgrounds and coming up with our plan to tackle that.
It is exciting to see this first iPhone game making such great progress. We have a great group of dedicated people working with us and I know this game is going to reflect that fact. Just let me play it already!!
Susan
So, what has been happening? We are presently exploring an iPhone game which would be a subset of Arrival, it could even be considered a prequal though the story for the first prequal may not be connected to the main Arrival game. If things go well there is a chance we will do a series of iPhone games. This could help us in many ways including practicing on a much smaller scale, earning funds to pay for bigger game development costs and building a reputation which could help us receive funding from a publisher. At the moment I am in negotiations with a publisher to get funding for our first iPhone game. It’s a long process but assuming everything goes well we should begin full development by July (sooner I hope!).