The pain knows no bounds

For the past week and a half, I have been visiting a camp called EGD, or emagination game design. The premise of this course is to create a game so that you have experience when you possible get into the industry. And for the past week, we have been creating an FPS, using a program called FPS creator. Sounds fun, right? I wish it were.

To start off, FPSC sucks. You can only make the AI do one thing from their pre-programmed scripts, which range from run, to shoot, to run away, to strafe, and to cower. And forget about having many enemies in a room. You have one, and it's good. You have 2, and it's okay. 3, and it's a stretch. 4 is pushing it, and you can definately forget about 5. And the bigger the room, the worse off the lag is. Most rooms have to have the ceiling so that you can look up and hit the ceiling with a melee weapon. If you stand on a table, your head is brushing the ceiling. If you have it outside, it had better be damn small with few enemies. FPSC can't seem to render anything else with the sky that well.

Then there's the producer of our team. He doesn't know what he's doing. His ideas don't make sense. For example, we wanted to put in a flashlight. So I asked when do we put it in from the beginning of the game. But since you play as a prisoner aboard a space station who just escapes, why would you have a flashlight in your cell? But he kept insisting that the flashlight is available right from when you start. And today, I found out that one of the reasons that he doesn't like me is because he thinks that I'm unoriginal. Blegh, there's just so much that is pissing me off about this I can't say it all.

Anyway, long story short, I am never creating an FPS.