YoraI learned about Terrain3D and Scatter for #Godot, and now making a Stalker/Metro Exodus style segmented open world is becoming incredibly tempting.
Spending a few days creating the concept for #Darkwind ended up bringing back the spark to resume #ProjectWasp, giving me some ideas that were missing to continue working on that game concept.
I often feel that creativity is the fermentation of ideas. You need to fill up your mind with fun and evocative elements and let them sit for a while before a transformation into something interesting can happen.
I have two pen and paper RPGs setting that I made, which I both want to do adapt into a videogame one day.
But the indecision which one to use for my first game keeps killing me.
For an RPG setting, you can work on both at the same time, as it's all writing text. But making two videogames at the same time would be pure madness.
My heart wants to do fantasy first as I've worked on that world for over a decade, but my mind keeps mostly getting ideas for the Space Opera.
My game concept is a fantasy stealth game (like Thief) with an open world and access to special powers (like Prey). With its One Big Ideas being that the more you increase your magic ability, the more vulnerable you are to magic and more easier detected by supernatural creatures.
This is a conflict of game mechanics. Being better at magic makes you worse at stealth.
But I actually like that conflict. I think this can be a source of a great play experience.
And this concludes the work year for me, and also my career as a gardener.
Which leaves 50 days of the year to go on an epic hobby game development binge pretty much free from any other commitments.
Let's see how much I can get done by the end of the year.
I'm still trying to find the story and deeper theme for my fantasy ImSim idea. And the descent into increasingly stranger and otherworldly layers beneath the Earth the eventually blurs the lines between reality and an eldritch realm of unknowable weirdness could be a really cool direction to explore.
The final levels of Thief: The Dark Project try to take you on a similar journey, but are clearly rushed and unpolished, and fail to deliver. There is so much that can be done there.
Just saw that Phazorknight is hoping to have #COGITO 1.0 released by the end of this year, and then keeping it to bugfixes with no major new features getting added.
The COGITO template is exactly what I need, and I might be just the kind of person this was meant to be for. And it couldn't come at any better time for me. It's going to make #ProjectWasp more like a total conversion mod than making a game entirely from scratch.
So I'll probably keep focusing on asset creation for the next weeks.
Got my last work day this year on Monday, but I'm already ready to start my big #gamedev binge for #ProjectWasp right now.
I still barely know anything about #Godot beyond setting up a floor and walls and moving around between them. But let's see how much game I can get done learning #Godot from scratch in 52 days. 
Having a very visual imagination and creativity, the natural second step for #ProjectWasp (after drafting a gameplay concept) that comes to me is preparing the basic environment textures.
If I want to emulate the look of a specific film stock for the entire game (Kodak Eastman 5247, what else?) in #Godot, would it make more sense to color grade all my textures accordingly, or make them for white light and apply a color grading shader to the whole game?