Cherished family pictures and videos vanished into thin air. Programs deleted and music gone. Months and months of work wasted. Most sickeningly three months of development on my latest game all dead.
All because of a piece of malware.
Cheers virus creators, you have cost me dear. One stinking virus was all it took and I had to reset my PC to factory settings. I was an idiot and hadn't backed up for months. So goodbye hard work.
I hadn't just lost all my work on my current game but all the other assets from other games, half created games which I was going to come back to and loads of original art and music. Not just tangible assets but things like saved bookmarks and articles.
"That's it" I thought "To hell with it. No more development for me."
A few weeks later and I still had ideas floating around in my head. Really good ideas.
I dug out my old email and got a copy of RPG Maker VX Ace and got right back into it.
GIMP is still as difficult and amazing to use as it was and I was soon banging through new art.
So I'm back on the development pony making a game which is loosely an RPG version of Zone Of The Enders (very loosely). I'm mixing stock art with original graphics to make the development a little easier and have finally nailed how to do good cut scenes.
So after a big set back I'm developing again.
And this time I will definitely definitely backup.....
