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[Cheater‽]

NOTE: Spinoffs are not always a good idea.

SHUT YOUR ***** MOUTH!

NINJA MISSIONS FOREVER!

[Ultimortal]

But the cover art even consists of a facepalm.

Hey Dan, if you don't mind me asking, how long did it take you to make Iji?

It's difficult to answer. Somewhere between 2000-3000 hours is my best estimate - I took many month-long breaks but literally worked day and night when I did have the motivation. That's about the time I put into Ultimortal too but that sucked horribly, so uh... what I'm saying is that time spent is not a measure of quality. :p I'm not happy with how long Iji took to make.

By the way, I know it may seem like it but the character Dan has nothing to do with me. He's a derivate of another character of mine from a work that was never publicised. So Iji is more of a Mary-Sue than he is, eventhough she's rather based on three other people, real and literary, but mostly my own old characters. Hm, this is getting confusing.

[muku]

I'm not happy with how long Iji took to make.

Would you say this has to do with the tools you used, or more with the way you approached it?

[Ultimortal]

Firstly, making such a big game in the first place, when I could have made many smaller ones that would have caused much more combined joy for my players. Secondly that I took such long breaks, which inflated the project time into four years (avoiding this would likely have burned me out very fast though). I can't really say anything bad about Game Maker, Goldwave, Photoshop 5 or Blender 3D since without those great programs I wouldn't have been able to do anything.

Well, alright, I used a really old Blender version without even an undo button since the FK skeletons were incompatible with newer versions. I'm lazy...

[Cymon]

Firstly, making such a big game in the first place, when I could have made many smaller ones that would have caused much more combined joy for my players.

You speak as tho making a big game is a bad thing. If you had not made it, however, you may not have as many players as you do now. This game put you on the map, or rather on a map that you heretofore had been excluded from. Before this point you were in a quagmire of "casual freeware" game developers so vast that to rise to the top and be noticed by a larger audience you needed something epic. Iji is that epic, sir. Don't lament it, celebrate it.

And fix her face in the closeups, man.

[Melly]

Large games are totally worth it.

[Ultimortal]

And fix her face in the closeups, man.

I know, it's embarrasing... certain images still make me cringe (in particular the cutscene at the end of Sector 2), but no matter how much I redrew them I couldn't get them better for release. I'll likely fix some of them up for version 1.2, thanks.

[William Broom]

I don't think I would have enjoyed four years' worth of little games more than Iji.

[Akhel]

I don't think I would have enjoyed four years' worth of little games more than Iji.

Exactly. Thanks a lot for Iji, Daniel. Putting so much effort into a freeware game is something really commendable.

[Melly]

I don't think I would have enjoyed four years' worth of little games more than Iji.

[MekanikDestructiwKommando]

I tried Iji yesterday. It's alright, IMO. Upgrading feels annoying.. I have nfi what's best to upgrade or how to tell, and the game seems to taunt you by sayign "Oh no, you can't crack a scout! Oh no, you can't kick the door! Oh no, you can't handle this weapon!"
and I'm 100% sure her brother's an AI and her sister crawls the ventilation shafts, and I'm only on level 3. 
On a positive note, some of the enemy weapons are really cool (The green spammy thing, and those rockets rock).
Lol my first encounter with rocket.. see an enemy charging up so I jump, I thought he was locking on to me. I jumped straight into the rocket path, and about 4 people at work were watching after commenting on "standard gameplay" then everyone was like WOAH. 

[Akhel]

I'm 100% sure her brother's an AI and her sister crawls the ventilation shafts, and I'm only on level 3. 

 

[Seth]

release a mac port please

edit:  that came off whiny.  I mean, I'm just disappointed that I don't have the chance to play a game that everyone's so hyped up about!

[Ultimortal]

release a mac port please

Unfortunately, it's impossible to my knowledge since it was made in a Windows-only tool. Sorry.

[Melly]

A Mac GM should be available eventually, but it'll most certainly be based on newer versions, to which Iji's source code can't be translated and would force Ultimortal into a lot of work.

I think Mac users are out of luck.

[Akhel]

[godsavant]

Done a games journalism for Iji,http://db.tigsource.com/games/iji. Don't know if I covered everything, tell me if I didn't.

On a an secretly related note, can anyone provide me with a picture of General Tor or an Annihilator?

[MekanikDestructiwKommando]

"Tragic ending for killing everything"  -TigerSauce Review
A nice twist, indeed. But you know, with all those weapons lying around..

[Cymon]

And fix her face in the closeups, man.

I know, it's embarrasing... certain images still make me cringe (in particular the cutscene at the end of Sector 2), but no matter how much I redrew them I couldn't get them better for release. I'll likely fix some of them up for version 1.2, thanks.

Simple solution. No detail. Just an outline. If you feel the need add a little shading where her eyes would be, but keep the thick blocky shapes. It worked for OUt of this World, the comparisons are unavoidable, so just go with it.

[Aik]

Fantastic game. I can't think of any other that has such a human main character.

Didn't mind the art (and thought that the cutscenes were pretty great). Some of the writing was a bit dodge though.