August 8, 2009

The end of SCF?

As you *might* have noticed, I am not updating this blog or SCF itself anymore, and the project does look dead indeed.

I've officially stopped working on SCF now. But... (yes, there's a but) the only reason I stop working on SCF is because I will start a new online game.

Why? Well, I made SCF because I'd never done an online game before, and creating a game for others to play wasn't really my primary goal in the SCF project. I partially made SCF for myself, to learn new things and such. Because I had zero experience with online game development, the scripts in SCF are really messy, and adding new features, improving existing features etc is nearly impossible at the moment. Therefore I came up with the idea to completely start over, and, because I also have some cool ideas that won't fit in SCF, it will be an entirely new game. Technically, it will be based on SCF, conceptually, it won't have to do anything with the Special Cube Force anymore. Still though, there might be a few elements you could recognize from SCF.

Because the game is still in an early, conceptual fase, I can't tell you so much about it yet. I'm working on it under the name "Project York". Don't start Googling 'York' right away, it's just a project name.

As I have officially announced that I will not work on SCF anymore, this blog is obviously dead too. I'll create a new devlog for Project York soon, and post the link here.

Finally, I would like to thank everyone who helped my with the development of Special Cube Force. Especially to Tim Kampermann, for hosting the game, receiving 3 updates per day and still not complaining too much about it (thanks in advance for hosting this next game too, even if you didn't know that yet, Tim), and his suggestions that helped me creating the game.

Also many thanks to everyone that played SCF and thanks for all of the suggestions and comments in the forums.

If you're interested in this next project: you can start Googling for 'Zed' ;)

UPDATE: You can find the new devlog at yorkdev.blogspot.com. Stay tuned! :D