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📚-09- Moving On Blog
9th March 2025
"It is what it is"..

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So, Stack to Enlightenment is as done as is being done. It's time to just stop worrying about that, and move on to the next AGameAWeek.
And "worrying" is roughly what my head's doing, here. It seems to be stuck, looking back at Stack to Enlightenment, and literally worrying that it's missed something really obvious when it comes to putting the game together.
I'm sure that over the course of making as many games as I have, that I must've come across such a stumbling block before, but I can't quite wrap my head around how "stuck" the game managed to get.

It's more down to the fact that I was actually enjoying the way it was going, and it feeling nice and smooth, and working quite well, that it managed to hit me so hard when I got to the endgame.. There just wasn't anything in it that could work beyond the basic concept, and that would help to move it on from the initial setup of the game.

Really is a baffling situation.
.. But it's done. The game's released, you've probably already played it to completion, and have got yourself into the same situation that I did. What happens next, and how can there be a next, and what might the next be?

Michael Fernie chipped in with this nugget.

You never know. Maybe in the future the avoid match 3 idea will spawn another game which wouldn't have happened without this coming before it.


And I think that's what I have to keep in mind. Right at the start of AGameAWeek, or even before it during Wednesday Workshops, the idea was to try out mechanics, see what unique things actually worked, but also what didn't, and why.
It's ok to fail.
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OK.
Whatever.
Let's just set it aside and move on.

The next game is a Shoebox one, and in my head it should be much more playable. The gameplay mechanic lends itself to a scoring method, and that should help things immensely.
A nice score display, scoring first and foremost, and the way the game's set up should help free it from having a 100% ending.
I'm looking forward to this one.

(He says, having already said that about the previous one, last week)

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