Tankmen: Blast

Last year, I teased a game I’d be making called Tankmen Blast. It was going to be a House Of The Dead style OTR shooter with Newgrounds memorabilia spread across it like a fine butter. I had a whole storyline planned for it (of which you can view in a soon-to-be-made document), I has teased a couple shitty songs for it, and then it came to the gameplay.

Teasing the game with its most stable part, the music, lead to me going back & forth on the idea for months, until silently dropping it by April of this year. And to add to that, I hadn’t even made anything gameplay wise! So, I let the game rot in the back of my cranium until I remembered it existed it a couple days ago.

MariObama

Cut back to 2013, and Serbian funnyman LeatherIceCream is teasing music for his own soon-to-be game, MariObama. Him & his 3 other friends, Harvey, Luz, & Vinh, would work on the game together. However, the four had their own responsibilities outside of MariObama, such as video-making & streaming on a regular basis. Thus, those got in the way of MariObama’s development, leaving a bunch of songs, a handful of cutscenes, & one unfinished test level to rot on Leather’s hard drive.

Čeda, & the spiritual return of MariObama

Unlike me, however, Leather & company (minus Luz, though nobody knows where he ended up) actually got around to making a full game off the basis of MariObama, titled At Least There Is Čeda Čedović. This is the best of outcomes for if MariObama were to be cancelled, as their plans came back together for an actual game instead of a husk of a former plan.

Why’d I screw up?

So why’d my game flop? Simple: I’m a dumbass. I didn’t know how to use GMS2, and there was no way in hell I’d use Scratch, like are you kidding me? So a good lesson to learn from MariObama is this: Don’t tease something until it’s at least mostly finished. Otherwise, you might pile on a ton of hype too soon, when you have nothing to show for said hype. I didn’t learn this lesson until a week or two ago, with tons of things. A planned album, the Pizza Tower megapiece, and maybe some other stuff I forgot. Don’t make the same mistake I did, kids, it’s about as good for your health as forever chemicals are.

TL;DR Only tease things when they’re mostly finished