A couple of days ago Jay of Rampant Games posted a link to an article about how Notch marketed Minecraft. The takeaway for me was that Notch produced a lot of content about Minecraft. The article states that he started blogging and would put up a new post every day, sometimes more than one a day. I hear things like this from time to time, and I wonder what on earth they spend all of that time talking about. So I went back to Notch’s early blog posts, and it’s just a lot of small status updates. Every day a small note on what he had done. That sounds somewhat doable. As an aside, Jay Barson of Rampant Games writes a new blog post nearly every day, but most of them are full of interesting thoughts on the industry, games in general, or any other myriad topics. I don’t know how he does it.
So how are posts like ketchup? Well you may have noticed when trying to pour ketchup that it tends to resist moving, but once you do get it moving it tends to keep moving pretty quickly. I notice that I tend to update in spurts. For a couple of weeks I’ll blog every week, then I’ll stop and silence will reign for a month or two, or three, or six, and I have a hard time getting started again. So I’ll start pouring out the updates like unto ketchup, which will hopefully lower the general inhibition against posting. Since that’s usually what gets me, anything I might say has already been said ten times and much more cleverly. I’m also going to try to cross-post these on tigsource, in the hopes that if I dump enough updates out that someone will take notice and I’ll have an easier time getting publicity.
So what have I been up to? I’m working on integrating a dialog system that I got off the asset store. But it requires that I update to the latest version of NGUI, the UI system I’m using. And the latest version of NGUI changes a lot of things, mostly for the better it looks like. Which means I have to do heavy work on most of my UI, which convinced me to purchase some UI assets so that things will look a little more nice and professional.
Screenshots later, along with updates.