The Idea

It all started with the "idea" of making a game where you are a gladiator, and you need to compete against other gladiators, from whom you gain money and thus can buy new armor and weapons to defeat even tougher foes. I wanted the gladiator to travel to Rome and Carthage and everywhere in the Roman Empire. Alongside all this, the game needed to be photorealistic.

Soon enough I realized that this "idea" of mine was way to ambitious. I started to cut out my "idea" to the very core of the game. Later on I would be able to expand my game with all kinds of other "ideas".

I learned very much from this video. It helped me with making my game small enough so I can make it on my own. On the blenderartists forum sdfgeoff said:

Here is my time management planner in percentage of time to create:

• 2% Planning and concepts
• 5% Modelling
• 5% Texturing
• 3% rigging
• 10% programming
• 20% AI programming (yes, more programming)
• 60% Level making
• 100% Blood, sweat and tears (bug fixes)

This just insured me that I made the right choice by making a small game.

I had the first 2% done, or hadn't I?