I made some progress with Cannons, but I decided to pivot back to working on CarCoder until it’s ready to be released on Steam. I’m not expecting some crazy success, but I feel like it would be fun to try. I believe the game has a lot of potential, but in its current state, I don’t think anyone will buy it. My guess is the work needed to polish up this game will take more time than its original development. Here’s my punch list so far:
Game Improvements
- Use a better car model
- Improve sounds
- Make cameras more realistic and add nice transitions (CRT shader?)
- Add dialogs
- Fix lighting and terrain textures
- Make streets and intersections more realistic
- Improve UI (add a way to delete single instructions)
- Improve the pedestrians
- Add more levels (games like angry birds have over 700, IIRC I have around 14)
- Optimizations and beta tests
Other Work That Isn’t Game Development
- Add SSL to this website
- Check on any legal issues from the assets in the game
- Apply for Steam dev license/agreement
- Marketing!
Thanks for reading!