for about the last 2 yrs I’ve been just losing motivation to work on games for long periods of time and can’t seem to like any ideas I have for games.
I was wondering if anyone else has issues like this and how they overcame them.
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Basically I’ll start working on a game and by like the second or third day I’ll be completely unmotivated to do anything for the game.
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It happens to us all. I’ve got lots of abandoned projects that I thought weren’t really good enough to continue on for various reasons. Once you do find something you think is good enough, your motivation will be better, but remember to take a break from time to time or you will get brunt out by passion projects. I’ve done that more than once.
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Seems you have whats called is an artistic block.
It happens to the best of us. What I can say is take a break from development and start playing some games of your type you found online, take inspiration from those, maybe then, you have all interest.
All I can say is get self control, with that is better attitude towards development and work.
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same thing. 2 years without motivation
call me crazy but a week ago i finished a school that teach you how to NOT lose motivation and i think it worked?
the first thing i noticed is how in my old games my scripts there were giant blocks of god knows and scattered everywhere
the second thing is: try to put yourself small objectives such as “Finish to make a sword that does this and that”, and then move to the next objective
making games is hard, and almost impossible for a single dev. i reccomend to not overwork.
like me, i work in the morning, in the afternoon i do my stuff ( such as playing or study etc), and in the evening i do whatever my mind says
(just to let you know, if you make games bored, then dont do it, or if you encounter alot of troubles or missing knowledge of code / animator, then stop the work and learn it, without rushing)
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There is strategy, instead of games create a system, and then expand it to become a game, also play other games and see what you like, go outside and hang out with friends