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Been there... > I'm ostensibly working on a game on the side, but I haven't touched it in months. I'm not even sure I want to continue it, as I've been workin
by varispeed 4y ago
Been there...
> I'm ostensibly working on a game on the side, but I haven't touched it in months. I'm not even sure I want to continue it, as I've been working on it for years without being able to fulfill my goals for it.
Having to go through something like this in my life many times, I can give you this advice:
Just try to do something with your game, even the smallest tiniest thing will get you closer to the goal than not doing anything at all.
I'll give you an example what I mean when I had to iterate a protype of my project. I had a feeling it is not going to work and I was afraid the disappointent I am going to feel when I power it up and it won't work.
day one PCBs arrived, got myself to look at them and then put them away
day two looked at my desk it was a mess, so I decided to clean it and take anything that was not needed for assembly
day three I put the PCB on the desk, not doing anything else
day four I looked at the PCB, powered up soldering station, turned it off
day five I gathered all the needed components and put them in an accessible way next to my desk
day six sat at the desk, turned on radio, soldering station and soldered like half of the components, then anxiety got better of me, so I stopped
day seven feeling guilty I can't do anything, I have only wasted money on the project and I am a failure
day eight I assembled the remaining components. I had a timer on and it took me 15 minutes, but I was feeling it was taking me whole day
day nine I set up the power supply and took out the oscilloscope and meters
day ten I connected the device to power, turned it on. Didn't blow up. Turned it off.
day eleven. Turned the device on again, started probing. Not working correctly. Started looking at schematic and Googling what I could do. Found a post on a forum, someone suggested to someone with similar problem to change this and that component. Done that. It works. I can't believe it. I turned everything off.
day twelve. Turned the project on to check again. It works.
day thirteen. Applying changes to the PCB, placing new order.
day fourteen. Can't get myself to do anything, but cleaned the desk.
day fifteen. Overwhelming fear. What if it won't work this time or is that it? I can actually make a product out of it?
and so on...
I mean if you think about it, I have done like one day of work in those two weeks, but I could as well just worry those two weeks and do nothing.
I didn't feel excited, happy or "into it". I just believe that this feeling will eventually pass (it did many times) and I'll get excited again.