Gee whiz, you guys are awful vocal about what you guys want me to be working on instead of something else. So basically, I’ll be putting MGS 3 on the backburners — probably meaning it won’t be released until 2011 at the earliest. Instead, I’ll be focusing what little effort I’ve got left back on The Underside.
In recent The Underside news, I’ve been hard at work writing a text script for the game. It’s something I started doing with Merry Gear Solid 2, which helped me keep the game’s story focused, and less scatterbrained as the past The Underside iterations have been. With older versions of The Underside, I had been writing dialogue off the top of my head as I was writing the lua script files, and as a result, which is why the game was so unfocused, and lead you on a tenuous chain of events to a bunch of places without any real rhyme nor reason.
One thing I’ve noticed is that Multimedia Fusion’s lack of memory management has made the game hiccup every time a new weapon is fired, or when a new sound is played, which is a result of Multimedia Fusion loading files on the fly, instead of, say, pre-caching them. It’s a minor thing, but it’s something I definitely want to take a second look at in the future. I’ve got an idea as to how I’d fix the problem, but it’s awfully hacky.
Anyways, that’s it. I’ll be focusing 100% of my development efforts on The Underside, and maybe, just maybe, I can finally free myself from this tortuous prison of expectations (which will be met, and hopefully, shattered by my unwavering talent).
Peace out, bros.
August 26th, 2010 at 3:22 am
Nice that we at last are going to see some Progress at the underside!
It really is one of the best retro games made today and i really think it has more potencial than many original classic games!
you are the man Arthur! 🙂
August 26th, 2010 at 6:34 am
Just… don’t feel so pressured you rush things. Everything’s better when you put time and love into it. And rainbows.
But seriously, it’s not like anyone’s paying you huge sums of money or betting their firstborn’s life on you finishing TU first. So relax or something, I don’t know.
It’ll be an awesome game of course dn_nb
August 26th, 2010 at 6:45 am
yay!!!
August 26th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Hmmm I am quite excited but you don’t have to continue with the game until your ready to. I’ve seen alot of things start good but get worse later on because they continued there idea before they were ready.
August 26th, 2010 at 10:59 am
As one of the people who has been harassing you to work on TU, its good to just know that youre not ignoring the project, but as everyone else has said dont rush it. Its obviously no easy task and I thank you for putting the time into it.
August 26th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
in b4 fags switch it up on you and want MGS3.
Both are good and both have kept me interested enough to follow.I’m still amused at the detail you put on MGS2 (from the little ocelot cameos) maybe these “side projects” you’re doing are helping you more than others think. Hopefully after these I’ll see some more original concepts you’ve been hiding.
As for people harassing you to work on projects (I’m guessing most are 13 year olds that don’t know shit about how much work is put into hobbies wanting to score a free game). I find it cool you look at that for input and feedback but it’s your shit do what you gotta do.
TL;DR Good luck on both projects none the less.
August 26th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Pretty impressed all the stuff was done on the fly before. Can’t wait to see some meaningful updates for the underside.
August 26th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Then will we be getting the modding update you promised a year ago?
August 26th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
yes let’s all complain on how promises were broken and lies were told. OR, we could could shut up and let the guy do whatever the f*&k he wants. as long as what he wants to do is work on is TU.
August 27th, 2010 at 8:44 am
As one of those whiners, I am incredibly happy you are working on TU again, i’ve been following this project since 06.