I have a problem, A motivation problem.
Programming my own game is something ive wanted to do for the last few years, and I have tried with varying degrees of success multiple times during this time period but I keep dropping projects due to lack of motivation.
The most common way this works is...
- Something grabs my interest (i.e. cool new game i play on Steam)
- I play around with ideas in my head for a few days
- I fire up a code editor and make some prototypes
- I start fleshing out something more playable
- I get bogged down with very specific things (performance issues, algorithm choices etc etc)
- I read other game dev blogs and am ashamed at how slow my progress is
- I lose interest
Should i keep trying?