Santa Barbara

Click to move, click on text boxes to open a discussion, relax and glide across the waters of Santa Barbara.

(a) what is your game about, and why did you choose that topic? 

I wanted to make a game about relaxing and taking a break to reflect on things.  Originally I had a large scope game about road tripping across America but I decided to shrink the scope of the game so it could be manageable.  I decided on boating because I liked the idea of taking a movement system I wasn't familiar with and trying to make it feel incredibly comfortable.  After weeks of working on the boat systems they feel great.

(b) what was fun or not fun to do? and what was easy or difficult to do?

Surprisingly writing.  I spent weeks putting together some great narrative based mechanics but I realized something really important.  I'm not that great at writing.  Ironic.  I guess I'll just start working exclusively on platformers now.