Every Friday morning I like to come into work early and find a nice quiet spot and a filter coffee in Starbucks, or from time to time (like this morning) a Sausage and Egg McMuffin Meal in MacDonald’s. I get the double benefit of a quieter journey in with fewer people on the tube, as well as a chunk of time to work on some puzzles for my Christian Point and Click adventure game. This morning turned out to be quite productive, praise the Lord, with quite a few fun little ideas, both for Act 2 in Mizpah, as well as the third Act, which takes place on the eve of the battle at Jabesh-Gilead (1 Samuel 11).
One little issue that keeps coming up is “false progress”. Often you get an idea for a puzzle solution, but can’t quite find a way to follow it through. You get so fixed on that idea, though, that you forget that you could go for a completely different puzzle and go in another direction altogether. Sometimes the best way to make progress is to throw it all away and start again!
This is part four in a 20 part series of blog posts, as I count down the days towards my deadline for writing puzzles for my game.
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