subliminor plans

Gantty

A gantt chart

gantt
    title 6 months (26 weeks) to get Core V1 shipped
    axisFormat %d-%b
    Pre Prod 20%:a, 2025-07-20, 7w
    Prod 60%:a, 2025-09-8, 17w
    Mockups 4wks: a, 2025-09-8, 4w
    Content 3wks: a, 2025-10-08, 3w
    Asset 3wks: a, 2025-10-27, 4w
    Coding 6wks: a, 2025-11-24, 6w
    Polish & Ship 20%:a, 2026-1-5, 5w
    Ship : milestone, m2, 2026-2-9, 4m

Making plans for Nigel

1. Preproduction – complete end of 2025 (OCT – NOV – DEC)
2. Production – start 2026 (JAN – FEB – MAR – APR)
3. Polish – (MAY – JUN)
4. Ship – JULY 2026

1 Preproduction – 20%

1.1 Analysis (OCT – NOV)

Game analysis

• 1.1.1 analyse game 1
  • SNES Game analysis – The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• 1.1.2 analyse game 2
  • SNES Game analysis – Earthbound
• 1.1.3 analyse game 3
  • SNES Game analysis – Harvest Moon
• 1.1.4 analyse game 4
  • GBA Game analysis – Links awakening

1.2 Game design (DEC)

• subliminor docs – game design
  • Premise
  • Scope
  • Game design
    • Story progression
    • Interactions
  • Layers
  • Milestones

1.3 Promotion (DEC)

• Promotion! tell the world its a happening thing! and when it will happen;)
• Setting up all channels and promoting…
• do up a logo and icon as well as a short 1 minute teaser
• one page site with logo on it and contact…

2 Production – 60%

2.1 Setting up toolage/workflow etc.

2.2 Logo design and icon

2.3 Mockups

• analogue
  • Analogue mockups paint
  • Palettes etc.
• digital
  • Milestone 1:
  • Milestone 2:
  • Milestone 3:

2.4 Content design

• Maps etc.
  • overworld
  • sections
• Map elements logic etc.
• Intetactives

2.5 Asset creation

• Determine scale etc
• Determine palette etc.
• Lighting logic
• Map element logic – including scale and set pieces (like kauri)

2.6 Coding

1. planning to code… – investigating approach
   • look at the eloquent JS book…
2. starting
   • Setup canvas
     • scaling and sizing
     • pixelation
     • suppress scrolling
   • sprite sheet
   • Maps
   • loading the game
   • classes
     • init
     • overworld
       • config
     • overworld map
     • cropping an image from sprite sheet
3. game objects
   • config object
   • default values
   • sprite
   • loading images and drawing them
   • animation
   • data format
4. over world maps
5. movement
   • grid based movement
   • keyboard input
6. character animations
   • sprite sheet animation
7. camera
8. walls and collisions
9. behaviours and cutscenes
10. typewriters
11. scene transitions
12. events
13. overworld HUD
14. Pause menu
15. story progress
16. save game progress
    • load
    • save
17. title screen
18. Lock and keys – can be many to many…

2.7 Mini game

• onwards to minigames

3 Polish and Ship – 20%

• SHIP – start of JULY 2026