/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

I'm working small and avoiding the corporate or big scene so I don't have too much pressure. I guess the fear I have is if this is ok to do. I want to aim medium because I'm average, I hear people saying to aim higher or attempt to be the best in the whole world in short periods of time.

I don't know, the best outcome for me is to have half the time to work on my individual games, and another half part timing and working with a small business or something like that. Just have enough time to do both work and my own work.

sorry to say, but if you abstain from failure your never going to make anything worthwhile. even the best of the best, equipped with endless resources, can't succeed more than a third of the time. the people who've made it don't have an ability to discern what's good from bad more than anyone else can, they're just the type of people who keep swinging until they get a hit.

the only way you're going to improve past what you can learn from a textbook is by exposing yourself; you can't grow in a bubble.

I'm scared shitless that I'll wake up one day to the tune of massive outrage over a bug I didn't see and didn't wake up soon enough to fix, thus losing what little I've earned on my game so far.

Everybody sucked before they were great.

You just gotta face failure until you've gotten good. It takes a long time and you have to be passionate about it, but if you just keep at it, eventually you won't suck anymore.

If you give up every time you try something new and don't immediately excel at it, you'll never be good at anything.

Never accomplishing anything.

>tfw been doing this for years

>tfw I never actually finished making a non-trivial game

dealing with UV-mapping, I hate this shit.

I'm afraid of getting ignored

>>25928

Shill it, then. That's all you can really do.

half of the shit I post here gets ignored too, but I'm used to it.

>>25857

same here.

also, I'm living in constant fear of my game or game assets being stolen by some chinese or russian company and then labeling it as their own.

My game is too crappy so it's not happening yet, but if I've heard scary stories from my more competent gamedev friends where their assets were held hostage by some dude from god knows where. The bastards were asking for money, and if the dev won't comply, the thieves will outright steal the game and release it under their own name.

I thought of something

after years of constantly asking questions, I decided to say fuck it and just do it.

I'm going to fuck up anyway so I'll just gather the things I fucked up and learn from that. I just need to stop waiting and make it.

Netcode.

That my code isn't any good. I mean it works, but I feel like it could be done better and I'm not sure how. Right now the majority of my game's code is attached to a single object in a single script and I feel like this is somehow a mistake but I can't think of any better way. At the very least it makes bookkeeping and editing existing methods a pain in the ass due to the sheer length of the file.

Dying of a heart attack before I get done.