Juan
I've been browsing DOS games, specially RGPs of all ages. I love the creativity. Sure, a lot of them look like crap now and the playability/accessibility is bad, but I wonder if those details are actually preventing us to make games because modern expectations are too high for one single person to make a "good enough game".
There are a few exceptions, of course, so is not impossible. But I feel paralysed because I'm not one of those exceptional developers, and I end doing nothing 🙄
Aral Balkan
@reidrac Try this: give yourself a set time to make something, no matter how small. Maybe an hour. Maybe half a day. Make it something tiny that still works/can be played. It doesn’t matter what it looks like or how rough it is. Play it. Share it with folks. If the core dynamic works, then iterate in similarly short time frames. Keep it running always. Keep sharing.
(And don’t forget to try and enjoy the process; it should be fun.) :)
Good luck + I look forward to playing it 💕
Aral Balkan
@reidrac OK, so I just checked out your profile. “End up doing nothing?”
Scratch what I said… Have you seen the games you’ve released? :)
Aral Balkan
@reidrac Indeed. But don’t forget that your approach to the ones you made worked. You finished things (that’s hard). So just apply the same approach to this new problem. Every insurmountable big thing is a series of surmountable little things. (Or so I have to keep telling myself when I feel like you do now.) :)
Juan
@aral I know, I know. I'm trying to make something I haven't done before. The ones I have made are "easier", see? 😅
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