@moreelen Ok so I've been on @Hellscreen_Game for five years. 1. post cool updates often - the positive feedback you get will give you energy. 2. Keep a log of what you make that day/evening. It's easy to feel like no progress has been made (also doubles as good committ messages)
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@moreelen@Hellscreen_Game 3. Find time to play it! Enjoy that feature that tool ages or some new feature you added. 4. Working on non player facing features (i.e save system) can make you feel like you didn't do much so try and do something small and visual after
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@moreelen@Hellscreen_Game 5. use the game to learn something new. @Hellscreen_Game is my first crack at coding s game but I also levelled up on design, characters, rigging and animation
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@moreelen@Hellscreen_Game 6/small and beautiful is better then expansive but bland. If you have to go big, find ways to cut corners . @Hellscreen_Game art style hides a lot!
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@moreelen@Hellscreen_Game 7/ game Dev events are great for talking to people about your game. Folks who are interested in the development at meet ups give me life!
@moreelen@Hellscreen_Game Finally, treat critical feedback or bugs as opportunities to learn . Feedback can be great to springboard new ideas
@moreelen@Hellscreen_Game I've been lucky enough where @Hellscreen_Game has been featured in streams and events and people want to know where to pre order it so remembering it's eventually a proper eleased product and not a hopeless pet project helps me too. I'm.also very stubborn!!
@moreelen@Hellscreen_Game Oh one more! It helps of you work on something where you get to explore something which hasn't been done before and get to answer questions. In HS, it is about the mirror mechanic (plus the notion if I can make a indie game by myself and If so, how )
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So @moreelen posed the question about "How to stay motivated with side projects". I left a few tips but I wanted to elaborate here.
After 5 years on @Hellscreen_Game , Here is a little thread about how I stay motivated
1. Post GIFS of cool things you have made.
Short ingame gifs help bookend your days work and are great for sharing what you are up to. The response will give you snippets of motivation to carry on.
I make posting GIFS a key part of my working day.
2.Dont bother with blogging or long dev logs.
These just sap time & energy away from the game, so unless you write to relax I would skip this. Instead,use that time on the game itself. I do enjoy super quick feature making of's though (if they take the same time to make as a GIF)