What steps do you take?

[Seltzer Cole]

Hey everyone! I was curious as to what steps, or maybe I should say 'process', you take in order to achieve game completion towards whatever game project you are working on.

I myself usually start by plotting out the basic storyline of the game and figuring out how the storyline will begin and eventually end. Then amassing all of the tile-sheets/icons needed and possibly even some tunes. After mapping I move on to plugging events/scripts. Then finish by making sure everything is tested and perfected. Usually I run into issues since I love to continually add features into my game or even side type stuff such as side quests or farming/mining and all this bull until I am so distracted from the game itself that it turns into something I don't even like anymore...  Usually my game never reaches a finishing state and I always get stuck on creating icons/character/tilesheets since I love to make that sort of stuff from scratch.

Just curious as to how other people do it.

[Zexion]

I don't think I've ever gotten to actually making the story line other than the one from like 3 years ago. I do actually write stuff out but it never gets actually developed in my game. I have been trying for a while to get all systems I need before I go on to graphics, and then finally storyline/eventing. I have never really gotten much more than a 5 minute demo playable. I am a lot better at scripting now and am capable of making whatever I need which has allowed me to move on to graphics finally

Short:
Scripts/systems >> Graphics >> Maps >> Story >> Eventing

[ThallionDarkshine]

I generally start with figuring out a storyline for at least the first portion of the game. Then I just work on essentially all parts of the project simultaneously. I configure some of the items in the database and realize that with all the fish sprites I have, I can make a fishing system. Then I start playtesting and realize that I hate the RTP menus and stuff, so I remake those. I start mapping, get bored, and set up animations in the database.

So basically, I make a storyline, and then do everything else at once (probably why I never finished a game).

[KK20]

Subject/Theme, Genre, What makes this game unique from others like it?, Storyline and characters (if necessary), Sketches and Designs, Lots of notes in notebooks, Program, Get lazy, Come up with new project.

[Seltzer Cole]

Program, Get lazy, Come up with new project.

LOL.