After my previous post on this community, i read all comments and found lots of useful materials on gamedev.

For the firts couple of weeks i was completely involved into gamedev, learning, reading documetation, making project for hours every day. Next week i started to get bored with it. I was still making progress, but i just wasnt involved in it enough. Next week i got completely bored with it, and just left it. I tried to get back on track a couple weeks later, but wasnt successful.

I just cant find myself doing some work, like learning something new, for longer than two weeks. When i was younger, i tried to self learn programming, but couldnt to continue to learn for long. Now i know how to program, not because i personally was interested in it, but because i was taught it. Even if i will somehow learn to develop games, i dont think i will be able to work on same project for months or even years, which is always required to make good games.

Earlier i mentioned that i was bored, which is not what it seems it is. Making games is fun, and i want to do it. I just have a weird feeling, which i cant really explain what it feels like, and it prevents me from just opening the editor and continuing to work on a project i was doing last day, for unkown to me reason. Every time i boot my pc, i just look at that icon on the taskbar for a solid two minutes, until i decide to do nothing. Same thing at the next day, and a day after that, and then i just forgot i was actully doing that. I dont know why, but two weeks seems like the maximum i can spend on any big project, even if i am interested in it, and i know i have enough skill and time to complete it in reasonable amount of time.

So, what can you recommend me to do, to get me involved into game development, to get interested in it enough to actully commit enough of my time to make great projects?

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    That doesn’t really solve the issue for me considering I have even less motivation for some of those other things (writing/comics), or I’ve tried them with small successes that didn’t go anywhere (music, stand-alone art, even a finished simple prototype program related to writing).

    I have thought about animation*, but that is probably just as high of a bar if not higher in terms of effort and thinking up a viable idea. Something like a desktop pet maybe, though I am stuck on functionality. In a similar vein an OLED screensaver-type thing (or music visualizer?) is another idea, but I don’t have the screen (aside from an old phone that I’m not sure would work, plus exporting overhead).

    Stagnant life issues are probably a big part

    (fellas such as myself aren’t exactly self-actualized) though it probably does not help when I do try something and run into some technical issue/limitation (or just have no idea what to try next).

    Maybe I’ll get further if I keep trying, though I feel like I need to find the right thread to pull/follow… or maybe I just need to thread the needle on manageable small-scope projects that I actually like the idea of.

    * which is only a slight deviation for the workflow I’ve been tinkering with, just with very little simple scripting needed (really only initially)