Gee, where do I start?
Just yesterday, I thought back to my minigame project.
It was completely custom, It had 1 nearly complete minigame..
It was like PaintBall and Search and Destroy combined, It was only missing a couple more upgrades.
I spent about 8 months on and off developing it, and made a framework that would allow me to develop other minigames quickly, which I never did. But the framework still took care of networking for my paintball minigame, which was useful to me.
I also came up with a cool cosmetics system with some particle effects and gadgets like I've never seen before. There were a few.
I thought back to that server yesterday, and realized how much fun I had developing it, and occasionally playing my game with a 3-7 friends.
I abandoned it about 7 months ago, it was because I realized that this game needed atleast 4 people to be any fun, so I thought of developing a minigame that could be played singleplayer, so I could build up a playerbase. That is where I kind of just gave up and left the whole network idea.
But today I'm playing with me and an alt on it, and remembered how much work I put into it and where I wanted it to go.
Anyways, I'm wondering what I should do with it?
Should I open it up to the public and hope I can maintain atleast 4 players online? Hosting is no problem, I'm completely willing to pay the $15-$20/mo for that, the problem is advertising. I have $100 max. That won't get much in the advertising world, and I don't even know if my minigame server would be able to retain any players.
Should I try and get back into it, trying to develop a single player minigame?
Or should I just leave it in the grave?
Just yesterday, I thought back to my minigame project.
It was completely custom, It had 1 nearly complete minigame..
It was like PaintBall and Search and Destroy combined, It was only missing a couple more upgrades.
I spent about 8 months on and off developing it, and made a framework that would allow me to develop other minigames quickly, which I never did. But the framework still took care of networking for my paintball minigame, which was useful to me.
I also came up with a cool cosmetics system with some particle effects and gadgets like I've never seen before. There were a few.
I thought back to that server yesterday, and realized how much fun I had developing it, and occasionally playing my game with a 3-7 friends.
I abandoned it about 7 months ago, it was because I realized that this game needed atleast 4 people to be any fun, so I thought of developing a minigame that could be played singleplayer, so I could build up a playerbase. That is where I kind of just gave up and left the whole network idea.
But today I'm playing with me and an alt on it, and remembered how much work I put into it and where I wanted it to go.
Anyways, I'm wondering what I should do with it?
Should I open it up to the public and hope I can maintain atleast 4 players online? Hosting is no problem, I'm completely willing to pay the $15-$20/mo for that, the problem is advertising. I have $100 max. That won't get much in the advertising world, and I don't even know if my minigame server would be able to retain any players.
Should I try and get back into it, trying to develop a single player minigame?
Or should I just leave it in the grave?
(but that's just me)
