Today I learned something. I mustn't make mods as I just promise them, but I'll never finish them. Why? I don't have a partner, I'm not a professional tile maker, I suck at making title screens in Keen 4-6, I'm not really a good Keen 4-6 modder, etc. I should make Keen 4-6 skin mods instead.
Seriously, is it worth for me to make Keen 4-6 mods? Or should I make skin mods?
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Just give yourself more time, it takes time. Do one thing at a time.szemi wrote:Today I learned something. I mustn't make mods as I just promise them, but I'll never finish them. Why? I don't have a partner, I'm not a professional tile maker, I suck at making title screens in Keen 4-6, I'm not really a good Keen 4-6 modder, etc. I should make Keen 4-6 skin mods instead.
Seriously, is it worth for me to make Keen 4-6 mods? Or should I make skin mods?
I personally don't like skin mods.
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This happened to me many times as well, I started by trying to make Keen 3 1/4 - The Volticons Attack, which was a horrible failure and was left very early, followed by my unfinished Keen 3 levelpack and then Botafloria. Starting too many projects is the bane of many modders. How I got around it is, when I get a good idea, I try to twist it and edit it so that it would fit into the project I'm currently making. Using V2 helped a lot because there can be much more variety and different environments in Vorticons mods now than ever before.
When I first started modding a lot of my work was very crude, and I spent a long time trying out different projects to improve my skills. Instead of announcing big projects, focus on smaller things so you can get better. I would recommend making a level pack of one of the original Galaxy games so you can learn level design as well. I would avoid doing too many complex things like new enemies/patches for now. With time you can get better at modding 4-6, just be patient.
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This is I think the reason all my Galaxy mods have stalled. There are too many different skills involved that I just haven't had the patience to learn, and because Galaxy mods are much more complicated, so the mapping and design habits are going to be different. (I'm having the same problem with 30 CAT III, which I'd intended to be a Vorticons 2.0 mod. Well, that and my utter lack of free time at the moment.)
..or losing all of your modding work in a hard drive failure.StupidBunny wrote:This is I think the reason all my Galaxy mods have stalled. There are too many different skills involved that I just haven't had the patience to learn, and because Galaxy mods are much more complicated, so the mapping and design habits are going to be different. (I'm having the same problem with 30 CAT III, which I'd intended to be a Vorticons 2.0 mod. Well, that and my utter lack of free time at the moment.)
What helped me understand making levels for the Galaxy engine:
1) Study the tile sets and get a feel for how the tiles go together.
2) Study the original Galaxy (and the Universe is Toast) levels in a level editor; don't copy their design, but use them as a starting point how a level is 'nicely' laid out
3) Instead of making levels right away, build mock-up sections. This allows you to play with multiple level components (poles, doorways, switches, goplats) to get an in-game understanding of how everything ties together without building an entire level
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