This is why modding games is great. Most of the hard engine and framework stuff is already done for you, so you get to focus on content creation (the "fun" part).
Still difficult, but it requires a fraction of the time and effort that making a game from scratch would take.
weird. for me, the "hard engine and framework stuff" is the fun part, while the content creation is not boring, but just very hard for me :P
I'm so glad I made games as a hobby before I got anywhere close to graduating. Killed that dream real fast. It felt like shit having to play your own game so many times the game lost all meaning and it was hard to gauge if it was even fun anymore.
Reminds me of learning to play a piece of music you love. By the time you master it, it seems all the magic has disappeared.
I tried to teach myself piano. I actually enjoyed it when I was learning it, however I was really enjoying the progress I was making and less about the music I was playing. I wonder though if you get really good with music, you can probably learn and play new pieces much more quickly so maybe the magic won't fade as quickly.
I did something similar. I would get about as far as writing the interesting mechanic/game logic and then give up.
So you succeeded in prototyping?
The third half is always the hardest
The fourth half is pretty easy though.
That's only because the fifth half usually is as difficult as two halfs at once.
Just release unfinished DLC for $35, release a "definitive version" even though that was only the first half of the DLC, release the even more unfinished second half of the DLC and still leave a bunch of shit from the base game unexplained. Yeah I'm still salty about something, how'd you know?
This sounds like Destiny but I'm not sure.
It's Pokemon
This is why you just change jobs every three years.
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