Hello!

As a first blog post, I like to introduce the team, the goal and the original idea behind this project.

The Team

On this project, the full force of Mighty Shrimp Studio will participate in some extends. LeBread the CAO (Chief Artistic Officer) and Lead Technical Artist will be responsible for all the artsy stuff meanwhile I will be the programing guy as the CTO and Lead Programmer/Architect of our studio. Others might be join our cause throughout this journey, but we will be transparent about that.

The Goal

Mechanical Destruction 9637 will be a recreation of the cult classic Battle City game, which came out at 1985 and made by Nintendo. The actual details will be shared on multiple posts throughout the next month. Our biggest challenge with this project is to create a DevLog entry every day during May, where we talk about the game and what progress we made in the recent time. These post will be insights of the development process, the art, our ideas and struggles and maybe our successes as well.

We also have a time table to be more accountable about the actual progression of the game

• May 08 > End of the first week
  • Design document is ready
  • We have a solid understanding about the project scope and the hardships of the blogging part
  • The content of the alpha and beta version is defined
• May 15 > End of the second week
  • Alpha version is released
• May 22 > End of the third week
  • Beta version is released
• May 30 > End of the fourth week and the project
  • v1.0 is shipped
  • Release party is on
  • (~0.0)~ ~(0-0)~ ~(0.0~)

The Original Idea behind this project

I’m not gonna lie, but with Bread we had way too many project ideas in the past couple of years and we never finished them. So we needed some kind of accountability for our game dev journey as a studio so we came up a some what gamified motivation system in the form of this project. Right now I can’t tell if it will be our first fully finished game or it will be another failed attempt, but I’m kinda positive about this blogging thing although none of us ever did any blogging before.

Have a good day, be the Shrimp with you! ~ Qnbie