I wanted this 10% of my life to be worth it, and I wanted to release a product I was happy with. That was what made it so stressful, trying to make this game. “When I first started talking to Microsoft about the Summer of Arcade, it was made pretty clear that this was not a deadline we could miss. Dodrill spent more and more time refining the art and structure of the game, creating a story and a skeleton for a much larger and ambitious tale.ĭodrill was given some affirmation when he won a title at Microsoft’s annual “Dream Build Play” competition, and was finally given a chance for mainstream success when he was invited to release Dust as part of the company’s Summer of Arcade. The game quickly spiralled into a full-time affair, and a serious one at that. Non-stop emails and trying to keep up some resemblance of a community.” “The first few weeks after the release were still very hectic, and a lot of marketing. Having now released to the world a project on which he has painstakingly worked for years, Dodrill is sleep-deprived and restless. It’s a consequence that speaks to the gargantuan task of actually sitting down and creating a game without having a support team behind you – a process that exaggerates the well-known horrors of “crunch” even after the game itself is packed and shipped.
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