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You shouldn't look for motivation, for it is fleeting like the wind and it will fail you as soon as it goes away. You should look for discipline, for it is reliable and never ending in its fruitfulness like the grossly incandescent light from our glorious sun. Find your own sun and tame it.



(People who look for motivation = vampires, You = Kars)

TheOdyssey wrote:I actually had a problem a bit like this a while ago... and I'll tell you now that my favorite way to work is believe the game will suck and be buggy and starting any new project would yield the same results. So, as a result: if what you make is half-decent you'll start to believe in that game. (Pessimistic? Optimistic? Or a bit of both?)



But, I don't know. That's just me
EDIT: I'm also really interested to see where this "No title screen games" and "only title screen games" mashup thing goes

You would like the demoscene, heh.

adnzzzzZ wrote:... You should look for discipline, for it is reliable and never ending in its fruitfulness like the grossly incandescent light from our glorious sun. Find your own sun and tame it.

1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

kbmonkey wrote:

adnzzzzZ wrote:... You should look for discipline, for it is reliable and never ending in its fruitfulness like the grossly incandescent light from our glorious sun. Find your own sun and tame it.

1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

10% luck, 20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure, 50% pain
And 100% reason to finish the game

I could be in a minority here, but I think that if you grow tired of a game idea, the idea isn't good enough. I never grew tired of the idea behind Hat Cat, which is why it's now finished. The idea I'm working on now I've had for about 10 years, and the gaming industry still hasn't filled that important hole, and I just hope that doesn't happen in the next year or so

I disagree with you, T-Bone. I grow tired of my ideas all the time, and that just means I need to focus my attention on something else for a while because I've been burning up my attention for that project.

I guess what's really important is learning yourself, learning how YOU work when facing challenges and when and why YOU get bored or lose motivation. People are pretty different.

I know what tanks my motivation... having too many things (read: projects of any kind) that i always think about.
It's like a system choking on too many processes, none getting any CPU time because the scheduler is what it is, and can't handle dealing with so many things at once.

My advice: Select one, the smallest one, or the one that is simplest to implement fully (without adding new ideas and after checking whether it -is- the simplest) and ONLY work on that.
Need to look something up? Don't touch any browser, that may be poison, depending on what type of person you are; if you have a short attention span, every site is like tvtropes (or wikipedia). Work on your code, or just write comments for algorithms you don't know how you'll implement yet, and when everything seems okay-ish, then consult with the löve wiki or other resources, then close them and repeat until you get a game.

At least, that's a way i'd try it.

adnzzzzZ wrote:(People who look for motivation = vampires, You = Kars)

Hahaha. Thanks for the insight! I should embrace the ever growing power in my fingertips.

TheOdyssey wrote: EDIT: I'm also really interested to see where this "No title screen games" and "only title screen games" mashup thing goes

The sky's the limit!