With the completion of Nyx and gaining some experience working with others on a game, I can say that I enjoyed the whole endeavor quite a lot. During the production of the game I worked mainly on scripting and getting the functionally of the game going, and that itself was insane for someone with little knowledge in the area but still, I tried as best as I could with it and produced what I could.
I learnt a lot during the whole production about workflow, teamwork and the skills needed to produced a game.
I would have liked to work more on the designing side of the game but when we chose roles for who would do what I figured that someone has to do it and I gave it a try. I know that my actual passion is still in modelling and texturing but this gave me a tiny insight to what working with scripting and programming is. I guess in the end this has given me more respect towards people that work as programmers and can, some what, understand better the strain they have during production.
Working with a team has its ups and down. Its great to work with friends and design something together but it can also put a strain on friendships when you add a professional quality into the mix.
Because of the relationship between people it can make it difficult to talk about issues your having and can sometime make things awkward when you have to discuss them but all in all, I think that working with people you know and are comfortable with is still a great thing to have.
I worked a bit with the audio engineer we had helping us with the audio in the game. I helped during the recording session and implementing it into the game itself. Audio is another long process with games and being able to get the support we got was a massive help in producing the game.
In the end, I really enjoyed working on Nyx. It was an excellent experience and would definitely want to be part of a team again sometime in the future but with a more realistic goal in mind.
I know the limits of my skills and know what I have to improve on and how to improve to get into the industry I want to be a part of.
