Hi everyone!
You know, I have so many projects left unfinished, so many things left undone. I stayed away from game development for the last months since I have to focus on getting "another career" on the line. I always deemed myself as an indie game developer "hobbyist", and would like to make a game for fun. Lately, it seems I got carried away with all the "make a game, sell a game" type of approach. It over-burdened me with pressure and expectations that sometimes, my mind can't completely comprehend such task. In result, I seem to start multiple projects here and there and never finish them altogether. To be honest, I became a little greedy. I wanted to earn something from a game I would create, so I could buy my dream - a gaming pc/laptop. It seems I overstress myself on making the "how it should present to the audience" part. Hence, although I enjoyed it in some ways, I guess it was not on the same level as before where I would just like to create something fun and share it to the audience - regardless if I earn something or not. I would like to apologize to all of you who are following me in my game devs in the past months (or years), and ended up having a bunch of unfinished games in your list. I'm not proud of it myself too.
As of the moment, I left Unity and started learning Unreal Engine now. I kinda enjoy it and was hoping to make a comeback game of mine, from the game that started this flame of game development inside me - COURAGE. That's right! Almost 7 years ago, I released Courage and boy it exploded further than I can imagine! Even greats like Markiplier did a video on my game at that time! Yes it was not as great as Amnesia or even Slender the Eight Pages, but as a first horror game that I have ever made and released - that was superb!
Right now I am thinking of doing Courage 3 in Unreal Engine. It can be a sequel to 2015's Courage: Alone and Lost; or it can be a prequel; or a reboot - IDK so far. In terms of pricing, I really don't want to think of it. Some part of me wants to "earn a bit" on doing such a hard work, some part of me just wants to do it for fun alone and won't care of the price or even money... I'm still a bit torn. But I always wanted to create something great again where people would enjoy it.
Fingers crossed, I hope Courage 3 will come soon.
Thank you for reading, God bless, and stay tuned!
- Dran
