1. I should not have made this game.
Or at the very least, I shouldn’t have made it right now. This is the premier game for Viridian Games. The premier game should have been flashy, punchy, and most importantly, unique. From a business perspective, this is the worst game I could have made – a generic-looking game in a genre already well-covered by at least
two other
companies. But I really, really wanted to make it, and I felt I’d have a leg up because I was starting with the codebase from
Inaria Original, but that ended up not helping me at all as I rewrote everything about the game. Which leads to…
