Gonna be completely honest: I’m freaking out right now.
The semester is winding down, and it’s go-time for Fortune Hunter. My team has been working for weeks on refreshing this old game for the OLPC laptops. I’m the artist, which is a welcome change of pace and an awesome way to increase my game designer well-roundedness, but I’ve come to a horrible realization.
You see, when you write code, you may have your own style. However, code is code. You don’t perceive it in the same way as art. If it works, it works.
Art is different. Style is hard to imitate. You can get close, but the point is that it’s difficult. I would hate to leave this overhaul incomplete. It would be a tremendous disservice to whoever decides to pick the project up in the future. In fact, it would be worse than doing nothing at all. It’s discouraging. It’s taunting. I hate finding art relics, and I refuse to perpetuate this nonsense. It’s the least I can do.
So, tl’dr: I’m going to finish this art overhaul even if it kills me.
Feel free to peruse the repo too. Some of my stuff is already up. 😀
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