State of Rizzo Island 2023

Hey Ya'll, long time no see! There have been a few updates since we last saw eachother so heres a breakdown!

If you don't follow on me on twitter, there are a few cool things going on with the project. I've started re-mapping 2 levels for optimization and touch ups. The first one, which has also been completed, was the Temple level. Right now I'm currently working on the Pirate level, and I finally finished up all the geometry for it. Having some framerate issues though. Might be able to fix them with some hint brushes and an engine recompile with the latest version of GLdc. Also optimized some texture loading. Why was I using 32x32 and 64x64 size textures for solid color textures lol. That should help with loading times.

Got someone still working on the engine. Can’t really say much about it yet because they are working on something interesting related to it, but might be cut if they can't figure it out.

 Dreams of Mine is stagnating, but only thanks to my time working on Rizzo Island and my day job. I’m trying to write a design document for it so that me and my new partner can have an outline to follow to avoid feature creep and miscommunications. I want Dreams of Mine to go more smoothly than Rizzo Island.

I know I say this every year, but next year will probably be the release window for Rizzo Island. If I finish the design document for Dreams of Mine it might be the year after. Still currently trying to decide the pricing on Steam. It’s only an hour and 30 min game at most, and even though I’ve spent years making it, it’s not really worth more than $5 or $10 at most. Maybe I can make a $5 standard edition with only the PC game and $10 deluxe version with a Dreamcast disc image included. That way the pricing won’t be too much difference with a physical release. Wish I could have someone make a custom disc burning program for DC homebrew releases, so people won’t have to go out of their way to burn discs with DiscJuggler or ImgBurn. The latter includes adware in its installation if you download the wrong version.

Here is a sneak peak of the new level remap:

Anyways, that wraps up this rant. Just an overdue update on the status of the projects