[gameprogrammer] Re: Current game projects...
- From: "Alan Wolfe" <atrix2@xxxxxxx>
- To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:50:31 -0800
wow...you couldnt have said it better, I didnt know it was that way for
other people too hehe
i too code professionaly (not games though either), and when i started (i
was a hobby coder for a long time before i was a pro coder) a big difference
i noticed was i couldn't just stop when i got an idea working, that last
5-10% or so of spit and polish really is a pain in the ass :P
my boss gave me good advice though... he said if you work on something a
little bit consistantly you'll be amazed how quickly you get there. If you
have "no time", if you still do something like work on your code for 30 mins
a day or even 30 mins a week but just keep to the routine, before you know
it you will have alot more done than you thought possible.
just reinforcing what you said so well
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Olofson" <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:50 AM
Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: Current game projects...
> On Tuesday 01 March 2005 20.21, Alan Wolfe wrote:
> [...]
> > I think I wish I had something complete enough to classify as a game
> > instead of practice of techniques hehe
>
> Speaking of which, why does this happen? Of course, you're not going
> to get any games done before you've mastered your tools to some
> extent - but then what? After learning all we need and then some, we
> still have this growing heap of dead, half-finished projects...
>
> Of course, some were just bad ideas, or the code/design was FUBAR or
> something. One may just as well make a note about how not to do
> things, and move on.
>
> At least in my case, there's another reason: It's more fun to play
> around and try new stuff than to focus on rolling out finished
> products. Once you have a "finished" product, the hack value
> diminishes (nothing interesting left to do, since it's supposed to be
> *finished*), you'll have to maintain it (mostly boring work) - and
> when you're there, you have to figure out something new to hack and
> start over.
>
> Not sure what to do about that... After all, the primary motivation
> driving most spare time game developers is probably the hacking
> itself and/or that feeling when you finally have little objects
> moving around and doing (more or less) sensible stuff in some kind of
> virtual world. Once you reach the level where you go "Yeah, it works!
> I can do this." some of that motivation goes away. What remains to do
> to get a real product is mostly design, tuning and debugging. More of
> the same old stuff, basically.
>
> I can tell you one thing from experience, though: Leaving an
> unfinished project alone for too long certainly does not help it's
> chances of ever being finished... It's like the code goes old and
> grumpy and starts to resist hacking. :-D
>
>
> //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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