Devlog Entry: Refactoring Star Explorers
In my second official dev-log entry, I describe what the heck I've been doing for the past month. Lots of progress, but little to show for it (yet)...
"I finally put my thoughts together and decided to do a small experiment. I would start a fresh project and import only the game assets, like textures, 3D models and sounds, writing the actual script from scratch. I allotted myself two weeks to accomplish this task, and would decide on any long term changes after this two week period expired.
I did not expect to get very far in two weeks, but I felt that was enough time to figure out how things would go. Well, they went pretty well. I was able to rewrite many of the game's basic systems in a much more efficient way than I had 7 years ago. This highlighted to me many of the redundancies and problems that were plaguing my current script..."
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"I finally put my thoughts together and decided to do a small experiment. I would start a fresh project and import only the game assets, like textures, 3D models and sounds, writing the actual script from scratch. I allotted myself two weeks to accomplish this task, and would decide on any long term changes after this two week period expired.
I did not expect to get very far in two weeks, but I felt that was enough time to figure out how things would go. Well, they went pretty well. I was able to rewrite many of the game's basic systems in a much more efficient way than I had 7 years ago. This highlighted to me many of the redundancies and problems that were plaguing my current script..."
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