Planning 2025

I don't always plan my year, but when I do...

2024 is ending one week from now.

I'm on Christmas leave right now, I'm already thinking about 2025.

Not sure if getting ready for a race, or praying to a keyboard (art by Bing AI).

Here's what's my aim in the next year:

A game. Yes, seriously

This will not be an original game.

It might as well be Pong.

The goal is to make this game to familiarize myself with Raylib and create a process.

This process is not only about making a game but also about everything surrounding it:

• building it in public (if I choose this way),

• publishing it (on Itch, most likely),

• how to test it,

• how to plan it,

• how to automate everything,

• how to efficiently involve Al, etc.

A game design notebook

As every procrastinator, I value research very highly.

Both postmortems and channels by game designers like Mike Darrah, Tim Cain, and Masahiro Sakurai.

The last one provides a lot of interesting insight into game design.

It's an almost-ready checklist to help design games 😉

Roadmap for making an RPG

I'm also reading the C-RPG Book and noticing the subtle benefit of reading game descriptions in the order of release years.

Every game is more complex, and listing these might help me design a roadmap (an order) of features to implement in an RPG.

It might prove useful once I start making those RPGs 😉

The fate of my curated Godot newsletter

Even if I'm not learning Godot, I will continue to make my Godot Weekly newsletter.

Why? Well, I earned $10 on it so far, and I get great feedback every once in a while.

I might strike gold with it yet!

Especially given that I'm documenting my process and might release it as an e-book (you can join a waitlist on Gumroad).

So...