A Month working on Chibi Heroes I realized a few of the statistics that programmers throws out from time to time are true!
Here's what I say:
Cause
The game consist of 10% design codes and 90% engine codes.
99.99% of the user will be entertained by the design codes.
0.1% of the user actually knows what is going under the hood.
90% of the development time is spent on developing the engine.
10% of the development time is spent on developing the design.
99.99% of the user thinks the design codes IS the game.
Effect
The users see the 10% of the work that goes into the game and thinks that is all there is to it. They think the game is easy to develop, and should've been developed much faster than the time it took. They either do not know or do not care about the 90% engine that is running under the hood. Believe me, if it took a month to design a car, it took a year to design the engine that runs that car.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Facebook Apps
I have been working on a Google Android application for a while and has programmer block so I decided that I needed a break. So I began working on a Facebook Application during that break. Some break huh?
I've been working on this Facebook game called Chibi Heroes for a week or so. You can find it on http://apps.facebook.com/chibiheroes/
Yes, it is written using asp.net. Thanks to Kayson Wong for the excellent tutorial that he completed on 26 September 2009 (a week ago ha ha ha). It took me that long because I have no prior experience whatsoever in programming ASP.NET, although I have been using C# for the past 3 years commercially. The tutorial was so easy to understand I bet that anyone experience with ASP.NET programming can pick it up and hammer out a Facebook Apps in a few days.
This game Chibi Heroes will mark a turning point for me. This is the first program that I'm developing not as a consultant but as a SaaS (Software as a Service) provider. What do I provide? Entertainment. Hopefully.
Stay tuned as I go into details of the inner workings of Chibi Heroes in the next few weeks.
PS: I will be working on the Android apps as soon as I finished beta.
I've been working on this Facebook game called Chibi Heroes for a week or so. You can find it on http://apps.facebook.com/chibiheroes/
Yes, it is written using asp.net. Thanks to Kayson Wong for the excellent tutorial that he completed on 26 September 2009 (a week ago ha ha ha). It took me that long because I have no prior experience whatsoever in programming ASP.NET, although I have been using C# for the past 3 years commercially. The tutorial was so easy to understand I bet that anyone experience with ASP.NET programming can pick it up and hammer out a Facebook Apps in a few days.
This game Chibi Heroes will mark a turning point for me. This is the first program that I'm developing not as a consultant but as a SaaS (Software as a Service) provider. What do I provide? Entertainment. Hopefully.
Stay tuned as I go into details of the inner workings of Chibi Heroes in the next few weeks.
PS: I will be working on the Android apps as soon as I finished beta.
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