One of my biggest challenges when developing Car Washer (my last indie game, coming soon to Steam) was with finding and keeping suitable contractors.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t do everything myself and, while I did have some money set aside for contractors, it was nowhere near enough to hire a full time employee.\u00a0 So everyone on the Car Washer team, myself included, had to fit our work on the game in around our regular jobs and\/or school work.\u00a0 It also meant that some people had to drop out when they got too busy with other things.\u00a0 I had especially bad luck with programmers, going through several of them over the course of development, delaying the game quite a bit.<\/p>\n
Actually, one of the reasons I decided on Aurora\u2019s Nightmare as my next project was because I knew that, if necessary, I could do all the work myself.\u00a0 That said, I do have some contractors working on AN, such as the very talented Badriel who is doing the background and CG art.\u00a0 The reason being that, while I could make Aurora\u2019s Nightmare entirely on my own, I\u2019m much better at some parts of game development than others.\u00a0 For example, my artwork isn\u2019t anywhere near as good as Badriel\u2019s, so bringing him on resulted in a pretty big visual upgrade.\u00a0 In other cases, using a contractor saves me a lot of time that I can use to work on other things that only I can do (like the script).<\/p>\n
Fortunately, unlike with Car Washer, I haven\u2019t had any major contracting problems yet with Aurora\u2019s Nightmare, though there have been some bumps in the road here and there.\u00a0 For example, the composer I was hoping to use recently bowed out so I\u2019ll have to start searching for a new one.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve been having trouble finding another person to help speed up the character shading.<\/p>\n
But despite that, things are progressing steadily, if a bit slower than I originally hoped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my biggest challenges when developing Car Washer (my last indie game, coming soon to Steam) was with finding and keeping suitable contractors.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t do everything myself and, while I did have some money set aside for contractors, it was nowhere near enough to hire a full time employee.\u00a0 So everyone on the … Continue reading The Problem with Contracting<\/span>