The original announcement blog post is here. So that was a good first start! What's 1GAMġGAM is a challenge started by Christer Kaitila for developers to complete a video game every month for an entire year! He based this on a New Years Resolution in an attempt to avoid overly ambitious games that never get finished. There's judging afterwards and sometimes prizes but the real value is that developers have the perfect environment to create something, there's an external deadline, limited time means there's no time to worry about perfectionism or premature optimization.Ĭolm blogs about participating in some game jams before moving on to try One Game a Month.Ĭolm's first go for his game a month is Dungeon Delver the very first prototype of the game that will become Guild of Dungeoneering.
#GUILD OF DUNGEONEERING GAMEPLAY FULL#
A game jam generally works like this a weekend or week is chosen ahead of time, developers around the world clear their calendars for those dates, nearer the time a game theme is chosen and developers try to create a full game in the allotted time. It becomes frustrating to work on something that you know is perhaps years away from release. It's almost a rite of passage to start an ambitious game project only be forced to abandon it when it becomes apparent just how much work is required to finish. Work happens and in 2010 we see progress, as shown below, but there's obviously a long road to travel. There's a realisation this is a probably a little ambitious to begin with so the first project is single-player tactical turned based RPG. The blog then documents a few ambitious project ideas an online multiplayer tactical turned based RPG (A lot of us have had similar ideas to this!). The blog shows from the beginning games were going to be a fun hobby but a hobby that produced results. To get stuff done and completed, you need a certain mindset and viewing your hobby as a business demonstrates a desire to finish and release. We're approaching this as a business venture, not just a hobby! Development ProcessĬolm has a blog and if you go all the way to the first post back in 2008 the goals for his game-making venture are clearly laid out. The game was ultimately published by Versus Evil. Oliver Garland assisted with game design. Owen Canavan came on as the second programmer.
To make the final game Fred Mangan came to assist with art. This initial prototype of the game was created in Ireland by Colm Larkin. By happy chance the game has plenty of traditional role-playing mechanics which is the type of the game this site is all about! Who Is Behind It? But all that considered it's undeniably a massive success).Įxploring the game's development is going to teach us some tricks that we can apply to our own game projects. (Of course the net will be rather less Steam has a 30% cut, there's a publisher, tax, team member percentages etc. The sale price ranges from ~$10 - $15 so given a few more days, one might hazard a guess of it grossing about 1/2 a million dollars. We're more than 2x what SteamSpy is reporting there. It came out yesterday on Steam and sat in the top 10 all day.Īt the time of writing Steam Spy was reporting 18,756 sales and Colm suggests sales might be twice that. It has a 4/5 rating on Metacritic and here's the steam spy page where you can gauge rough sales numbers. It's worth asking questions like "How did this game come about?", "Why did the game creators get the scope correct? How do you estimate a games scope?" and "What general lessons can I take away from this game's development process to apply to my own projects".
The steps taken to produce this game are achievable for most developers maybe your game won't have such great commercial success but you can definitely finish a similar game to a similar standard! One guy was able to create an interesting gameplay loop and then build that out into a fully featured commercial indie game. You don't have any direct control over the adventurers instead you indirectly influence their actions by the order you play your cards. Guild of Dungeoneering is a turned-based game where you play special cards to create a dungeon for an adventurer to explore. Note: For brevity I'll often shorten Guild of Dungeoneering to GoD. It's also rather unique in that the game creators have kindly shared a lot of the process through their blog, forum posts, devs logs and interviews.
The game is a good size for a lone dev to create in a reasonable amount of time with a reasonable expectation of it doing well commercially.
#GUILD OF DUNGEONEERING GAMEPLAY HOW TO#
It was created by Colm Larkin (initially) and it's worth taking a look at, to learn how to finish a game. Guild of Dungeoneering is a game, with board game and RPG roots, that came out recently.
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