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Matt Roszak @matt-likes-swords

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Brb, Moving

Posted by matt-likes-swords - May 21st, 2018


Hey guys, all the battles in EBF5 have been defined. Most of what’s left to do is stitching all of the parts together, the title menu, tons of testing and balancing, translations, and the final boss. Then after that there’s still some promotional stuff like trailers and store pages etc. But it’s getting there - about 90% done. People who have volunteered to translate are getting a bit impatient, but I’ll get round to contacting you soon-ish. Still need a month or so before I’m ready to organise that.

I was supposed to be buying a house, but the seller is having trouble moving, so that’s been delayed. I’m moving back in with my parents for now – hopefully not for too long, but who knows. Maybe it will be a chance to take a break from work.

But while that’s happening, you guys can tell me what you want from Newgame+ in EBF5. Like usual, I don’t want to put much work into it, but I do want it to be a fun way to replay the game. Did you prefer it in EBF3 where you could just rush through the game again with super powerful players? Or did you like EBF4′s version where monsters got much stronger and you could keep levelling up for longer? If I do that again I’ll have to balance it a bit better.

In other news, I’ve been suffering quite heavily from nostalgia lately, and have been playing lots of games on Kongregate and Newgrounds again – old stuff and new. I’m probably too young to feel this way, but it feels like a huge part of my life is over. Flash games and whatever replaces them will still be around, yet I feel that some of the magic is gone, now that they’re no longer the cutting-edge of the creative space. I feel like the old man who doesn’t like what kids these days are into, because I had better entertainment in my day. Oh well. Maybe I’ll just have to keep making games in my style and prove it.

I read through my EBF4 postmortem, and I really need to update that soon. Back when I wrote that I felt like EBF4 was a failure and that I didn’t have much future making PC games, but since then EBF4 came out and Steam and was hugely successful there. Now my problem is that EBF4 might have been the height of my career and I won’t manage to make another game that’s so successful. That’s a bit silly of thing to worry about, I suppose.

I really need to blog more. It’s very therapeutic and a nice way to connect with people. I’ve got a few long ones that I’ve been meaning to write for a while, so maybe while I’m stranded at my parents house I can write some of those. I know I’m not the best at replying to comments, but I do read them all and appreciate them.


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You should take it easy for a while now cause your work and dedication to it is amazing! So don't go too far now! Just relax :D

Definitely prefer the EBF4 way, as long as it's not just brutally difficult. Not sure I ever made it to a New Game in the previous, but they're backlogged; looking forward to being completed...

Hopefully that nostalgia's some good and not all melancholy! It's a powerful thing. I wonder how things will change in 2020. If Flash really will die (it doesn't seem to be
going that way yet), if it'll live on in extended form, if we'll get some alternate unofficial plugins or scripts that keep on supporting it... really hope there's a way because there's still nothing quite like it. It's still the cutting edge of lightweight, but hardware keeps improving and people seem to see resource-heavy games as a sign of a good game rather than a badly scripted/optimized/compressed/engine.

Fun to read posts like this too, despite the somewhat depressing tone. XD Hope that move works out, and the new games attain even greater acclaim over the previous! Straight from your parents house to a real house - that's a pretty impressive upgrade.

Thanks!

I concur with Cyberdevil, the EBF4 New Game+ is preferable.

Relax dude! EBF4 is awsome but you need to moove forward. You 're not and old granpa to hate new times, you are here and now to make new great stuff.

You could just add a hard mode for new game plus and give people the option of either breezing through or hard mode.

Oh man, I feel exactly the same way about flash games these days... However, I wish you luck with EBF5! You rock!

Dude, relax, you are doing pretty well even if it was a long time ago when you published EBF4, take your time with EBF5 and polish it whatever you like, rushed games had been killing franquises in these last years.

We know you'll make a great game as usual, you're one of the best game developers online. Just keep doing what you need to do, and you will be fine and all right. Keep on going.

Please, make it possible to play this new game with mouse only, like in EBF4.

Please!

That's the plan.

Do you like programming or art better? I'd really like to make a game with someone where I didn't have to do any programming or game designing, but you're like me and do everything, so I'm not sure if that's something you'd be interested in. If you'd ever want to team up I'd love to just make art and music for something - maybe help design levels to balance the work load if that's needed. I'm not a good game designer and I don't really like programming, so I've really fallen away from the whole thing, but I'd be willing to jump headfirst into a game with someone like you who I know won't flake and can do a great job.

I dunno, thought I'd throw it out there if you're starting to think about your next project. Maybe you're more into doing your own thing, though.

I think I'm probably leaning more to the art side also. I'm not sure if I'm a good team player, and if I did work with others I think it would be most fun if it was in the same office. That's not a definitive "no" though!

Here's some advice if you're feeling the post-peak blues. Think of all your games as "THE BEST"(you can now hear the lyrics in your head). Even the silly ones you make on a whim. From that point, continue to make games with this singular thought in mind - "I'm having FUN!".

It helps. A lot. Have a nice journey, dood.

Hurray! I can't wait for it!

Good luck on your move. I can't wait for EBF 5 and any of the future games after that. In fact, I want to see a game that's not EBF related from you. I am sure it would do well given your reputation and would be something different.

Haha, that's what you think until I make "Plant Growing Simulator".

appreciate me :D
love your work

Yeah, that's why I asked what you like better. If it happened to be code, it would have been a great match, haha.