I've come to the realization that the competition has been both good and bad. Good that it's pushed us, but bad in that I haven't been able to enjoy it. The pressure of trying to win has sapped the joy out of game development. Apparently I'm not alone in this feeling as I've read quite a few forum posts with the sentiment.
Now that I've basically counted us out for the MSUC, I can work on the game without anxiety, and appreciate other mods. I had been looking at every decent mod with disdain, hoping to find some fatal flaw that would knock them out of the running. I'm not proud of this. These other modmakers work on their creations just as hard or harder than I do, and they deserve any reward they get from it. Now that I'm free of the competition, I can see that and rediscover why I like the community of mods that the Unreal series has.
As for our little mod, I'm having fun with it again. I don't even care if we enter phase 4. I don't think we could win, so there's not much point in entering. I would just like to take it easy and create the game I want to create, whether it takes 3 weeks or 3 months.
Posted by mix at August 22, 2004 09:56 PMbeen so busy ive kinda lost track of this cool little mod. bad luck on msuc, but im glad to hear you guys no longer really care about it and are just focusing on the game. best of luck, ill be sure to show it to tons of japanese people after i move over there :P
Posted by: beefsack at September 5, 2004 01:27 AM