Good times and bad times follow one another. The first bad time came when our only 3D modeller and 2D texture artist were unavailable for 2 months. Again we are in this grip of bad times for past 2 months or so. We required 3D stadium, Bowler model and bowling animation. But our only 3D modeller seemed to have vanished again and I havent seen him for more than 2-3 weeks. There was a deadline for 15th Dec and now I know we are not going to make it to Jan 1st POC release.
Startups like us starting from garage don't have funding and have to trust on commitment and skills of other members who help. We realized we need more than 1 programmer, 1 modeller to complete the game in reasonable time. Now I have taken a personal loan of $6000 (3 Lac INR) so that I can hire people from elance.com to work on this game as I have realized that there is no way to progress the work but to hire contractors.
I still hope someone from Planetcricket will come out to help us, but in the meanwhile, I have to go through the ordeal and hopefully I can get great models and animations from experienced contractors in Elance.
But all things apart, without your support and belief in this product achieving this is very difficult.
I am thinking of sharing a video atleast by Jan 1st to let know about the progress, in about 5 months of work.(5 months because in last 8 months, 5 months we have worked on the game)
