I woke up today and it was sorta just like any other day in my game dev life. I didn’t feel an ultra sense of urgency, but I did have something cool waiting for me. I got the first sample of the boss music for my game from a really wonderful artist JetDarc. His music was in the game jam version, I just found it searching for chiptune music and instantly just fell in love with the sound. I opened discord and the sample music was there, was only a small snippet, but I love it! So much so I added in my game and just stared at the boss I had been staring at for the past month.
Then it sorta hit me, a cool idea, I wrote it down and immediately wrote it off…. honest was dumb, and I’ve been in this same space for the last month, no real good ideas.
Then something happened, not a minute after the bad idea, i got a cool one, then another cool one. The music was helping me thing about the boss fight in new ways, to the point I have a VERY decent mechanic now with it, so much so I had to pull my wife and son away from the computer because they liked it so much. There is still a TON to do with it, but about half the basic mechanics are in the game, I’m still tweaking things and so much more needs to be done, but I’m very happy with the start and this is 100% something I can build on.
