Hy everyone !

Every month, i’ll try to share with you the advancement on my new game project. I also would share with you, what a solo gamedev can make during days, weeks and month. And now, we can begin this series with the august report!

I detail a working week with the total amount of time i spent in work, a quick view of my charge of work, tired level, motivation and respect of schedule delay. I represent it with this scale :

Good 🟢🟡🟠🔴 Bad

Calendar color meaning

🟧 Development Work
🟪 Communication / Socials
🟦 Research / Documentation / Formation
🟨 Work management

🗓️ First week (4-8 august)

🕙 Worktime: 25 h 30
Workload: 🟢 | Fatigue level: 🟢 | Motivation: 🟢 | Delay: 🟢

📣 Communication / Socials

• Discord server installation
• Bluesky, X, Threads Posts

🚧 Prototype

• Buildings and villagers creation and UI basics

⚙️ Game design

• First corrections

Weekly review

Small work week, summer period obliges ☀️😎🏖️, with a big day on my Discord server installation and settings . The prototype creation is on a good way like i schedule.

🗓️ Second week (11-15 august)

🕙 Worktime: 30 h 15
Workload: 🟢 | Fatigue level: 🟡 | Motivation: 🟢 | Delay: 🟢

🚧 Prototype

• Limit resources for buying buildings
• Day/Night system
• Villagers movements

📣 Communication / Socials

• Bluesky, X, Threads, Discord posts
• pixilluzion.com website updates

Weekly review

Average work week, cut with some family obligations. I was still able to continue making progress on the prototype creation to not be too late on my schedule. If i replace family obligations with worktime, i’m getting closer of the ideal week work to progress correctly on the game and take enough time for rest and have fun.

🗓️ Third week (18-22 august)

🕙 Worktime: 08 h 30
Workload: 🟢 | Fatigue level: 🟠 | Motivation: 🟢 | Delay: 🟡

📣 Communication / Socials

• Read, awnsers, discuss
• Bluesky, X, Threads, Discord posts

⚙️ Gamedesign

• Buildings and villagers

🚧 Prototype

• Villagers activities
• Day/Night cycle for night buildings

Weekly review

Small work week because i would have help a family member with his home renovations. It tooks me a great part of my week worktime. I could progress a little on the prototype but i accumulate a small delay on my schedule.

🗓️ Fourth week (25-29 august)

🕙 Worktime: 39 h 00
Workload: 🟠 | Fatigue level: 🟡 | Motivation: 🟡 | Delay: 🟡

📣 Communication / Socials

• Read, awnsers, discuss
• Bluesky, X, Threads, Discord posts

🚧 Prototype

• Rewards and buildings actions
• Villagers Run

💼 Other

• Service provision 💵

Weekly review

Back to serious things! This is a heavyload week work to try to make up for lost time previous week (i also tried to not crunch). A sad event happened 🪦. It stopped the progress of the week et felt the moral down.

📈 August review

This first month of work on a new project is very exiting! ✨

Learning new notions like using of Social Media for communication is very interesting but very chronophagious.

I don’t found my cruise speed but it’s coming soon!

I need to be careful to not accumulate too much delay on my development schedule.

See you next month for a new report!

Thank you for reading 🙏