Here is my experience (a thread) with feeling discouraged while working on my indie game, Demonlocke, and what I did about it.

After Caleb left, Demonlocke took a pretty hard hit.

This was caused by cascading events: First, I decided to scale the game's scope based on feedback from the alpha testers. This isn't inherently a bad thing, you should scale risk as you get a positive response, but I scaled too much.

One particular feature I wanted to add was HD UI.