WOOOHOOO!!!!!

     Well, honestly I'm glad this thing is over.  I had a lot of fun creating something that I could call my own but it definately was hard work.  I learned A LOT and really enjoyed it for the most part but sometimes, with somethings, you gotta know when to let go.  And thats when you realize, somethings...just arent for you! haha

     After the first testing I found A LOT of things that I never thought I would get stuck on...or the player would.  Then when I thought I fixed the things that stumped the tester the first time....I was WRONG. Ugh...Ok..well I was right but it just took me into a whole bunch of other problems.  So...the second go round when I thought there couldnt be anymore problems, or things to stand in my way.  Well once again, like always I was wrong.  I had to change even more than before.

     And to be completely honest, Im not a very big inform 7 fan anymore.  The dang thing never understands what Im trying to say when I put it into the simplest terms possible.  It doesnt agree with me on anything.  And the thing I hate the most is when I go through the game and play it and realize I dont want ONE word that I have so I take it out, then theres an error from that ONE word...which a SECOND ago it was perfectly fine and understanding.  PLUS...to add to the one word change and the one error from it, it finds other problems that have been in the game since the start they just never picked up on it, then after I have worked so hard to keep the eorrs gone, I hit one thing, and even put it back after I see it gave me an error, and it creates about 5 more.  Ugh its so frustrating.

     I thought it was bad when I was playing the games.  I would always get super frustrated because I could never make it anywhere.  Like REALLY frustrated...to the point I would just quit.  Well, making the game is even worse.  I cant tell you how many times I just wanted to give up and switch to a website for my term project.  But I tried real hard to stay all in and work hard on it every chance I got and make all the corrections I could.

     For my last beta testing I got Chelsea Oliver to test my game, there were a few set backs and things that I wanted to CONSIDER changing but, didnt really want to so i left them how they were.  Chelsea is a smart girl, and I created this game for people like me.  People that have a short patience and arent the brightest in the bunch.  People that want to play the games just as bad as the rest of them but don really know how or get too frustrated and quite.  I made sure my game was nice and simple, as well as somewhat short.  People like me...well we get bored and sidetracked, and forget easily...sometimes. haha.  So keeping in mind that those are the kind of people the game is for, Chelsea made her way through as I had to do some explaining but thats understandable haha.  But I think this whole thing was an eye opener for me.  It was great!

     With this project I think I did the best I could.  It turned out somewhat the way I wanted it, some of my ideas got spread into even better ones, and others, I just couldnt figure out, so I gave in to the computer and had to make a few idea changes there as well but, in the end it worked out pretty good I think.  I know that with more time, and me being in class that one extra day I would know more about the program, what to do, how to do it, when and where, and I also think that I would have made a better game with more time.  But I AM satisfied and proud of the game I have created!  Its a great feeling to be able to put my name on something that people could actually enjoy someday.

     Who knows if I will continue to use Inform 7 or create games, not just IF games, but any game in general.  But sometimes, I can see creating an IF game as something to do on your free time for fun too.  I usually write when Im bored or something, some people draw, things like that, just be creative, and I can definately add this to my list of things to do when Im bored.  And I really wouldnt mind doing another one.  But I would prepare myself better and be more aware of whats going on so that I can make a game even better than the one I did.  Im not saying my game is the greatest, I wouldnt even say its all that good haha but, who knows, maybe some day Il have one that it! LOL!

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/EL236/2008/12/term_project_final_presentatio/