Comments on: The downside of game development

By: mirach

mirach — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:02:01 +0000

Really great post. It’s not only about gamedevelopent, its about most of creative work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:07:58 +0000

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By: NoTShomsSor

NoTShomsSor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:10:09 +0000

Very interesting blog. Are you trying to be with my rainy average Do you want a joke? Why do turkeys eat so little? Because they are always stuffed!

By: DarK

DarK — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:29:41 +0000

hey bug fixing isn’t that bad! You’ve just got to not be childish in your vision of developing a game. Is building a house fun? yes a lot of it is, and a lot is monotomous work. The thought of the end result (or money) drives you.
I recently programmed the ancient chinese game Go/Weiki. It took a week or two to get most of it up and running and another month with the bugs. Luckily i enjoy any kind of problem solving. When i get bored of it i do something else, like the artwork. When i feel like it seems impossible, i sleep on it.
There’s nothing wrong with a little break from things, but too long a break and you’ll never return to finish the work, or if you do it’s doubtful you’ll easily pick up from where you left off.

By: wonderwhy-er

wonderwhy-er — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:37:14 +0000

Well i must say that i can’t agree with some of point here.
For example it goes for lack of time. Lack of tiem is real thing unfortenatly ;( Why? Becaust there are terms. I have 2 days to finish small thign for work. I have 1.5 month to make a looot of works for uni. And when i was making game for a competition had a dead line and i lacked the time to finish it right. That’s wha i call a lack of time… Yeah we have all time we wan’t but to for work there are terms and dead lines and they create te meaning of “ack of time”
And creation of games is not only work where you meet problems of good and bad feelings standing on you way. It’s common among creative proffesions. Desginers, painters, singers etc.
From what i know game making is most complex type of creativity at the moment. Why? Cuz you need idea, characters, music, programming, math, voice acting, scripting and a lot lot more. And one man can’t do it all. But where many people are met agreement is a rare thing. So you must be ready that game will take a lot of time to make and it will not be as good as you wanted. And it is common.

By: rfreak

rfreak — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:09:57 +0000

thanks “alot” lol a lot I have memorize this completely

By: anon

anon — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:09:08 +0000

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By: gnat

gnat — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:17:52 +0000

This must be my favorite post by MM so far.

By: rfreak "Julien"

rfreak "Julien" — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:23:19 +0000

I would say that you need to repeat alot. Because for a big majority of people it’s prouved scientificly that we need to read something 20 times before aving it memorize completle

By: Michal

Michal — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:23:35 +0000

>> running a single project over several years becomes an uncontrollable patchwork. You’re experiencing the aftereffects.

Yes I agree.

>>To the post itself: Your posts always go eventually into the zen and spirit and “it’s a mind thing” direction. I actually don’t like it because game development is far away from such esoteric thinking.

I completely disagree. It’s all in the mind and how you think about things. I will go deeper into zen in my future posts because you may like it or not, zen is an instruction manual on how to use your brain properly. If you understand how to do things the “zen way” you’ll never lose motivation, because you are using “yourself” correctly.

>>You repeat yourself too often, try to get to your point.
If I don’t repeat myself, you won’t remember what I wrote.

PuddleJumper:
Heh you’re on it. Points A and B are exactly as I learned things happen.