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 No.214

>Be out of high school for 3 years

>No money for college

>Working 3, soon to be 4 jobs just to pay rent at uncle's house, insurance, and bills

>In massive debt to grandmother after parents kicked me out with 0 warning and no job or money so she had to put me up in a motel for 3 months

>Massive medical bill debt from asthma related complications brought on by family that insists on getting several dogs and cats and smoking in the house despite my allergies.

>No time or energy after 3 jobs to sit down and learn to make things

>tfw mother spent $150 on this: https://www.schoolofinteractivedesign.com/training/ to surprise me a year ago

>A year ago it said "LEARN HOW TO DESIGN GAMES WITHOUT HAVING TO LEARN CODE"

>Literally all of the videos were shit you could watch for free on youtube but she tried and that's all that matters.

>tfw I never had/will never have any time to devote to learning and my year's access is almost up

I'm hoping my voice acting career takes off soon so I can at least move out of my uncle's house and support myself without having to work a 90 hour workweek.

ITT: share your sad excuses reasons for not being a gamedev

 No.217

>be me

>7-8 hours of free time every workday, and weekends all free

>I have no excuse

I feel physically like I'm dying every moment I'm awake nowadays and nothing seems to fix it, I haven't done anything productive in months/years, I forgot long.


 No.220

>parents kicking you out for nothing

>getting in debt everywhere

This is so american it hurts.


 No.247

>shit country

>imports are banned

>currency ain't worth shit

>can't even buy basic equipment

>salaries are shit

>all related jobs are outsourcing of shit-tier games


 No.248

>still playing games instead of making games

>still playing games instead of making games

>still playing games instead of making games

>still playing games instead of making games

>still playing games instead of making games

It's a w.i.p, the "plan" is to start making one of my games by at least november


 No.253

>Finishing up bachelors in CPS creates variable supply of homework/studying which destroys any expectation of progress.

>Haven't found means to bypass lack of asset-creation skill.

>In addition to school work am pre-occupied with exploring additional languages and working on a couple research projects.

I'll be making a text-based rpg game at this year's global gamejam, but aside from that I've got nothing on my plate terribly game related this semester.


 No.258

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I DONT DO ANY WORK BECAUSE I'M FUCKING LAZY

Pretty skilled, though


 No.265

I think about my game constantly, I have a massive backstory (lel) and collection of notes, I have a lot of sketched designs where I basically write down my code in the bathroom so I know what to follow, I LOVE working on my game and have tons of fun doing it.. but I don't do the actual work part. I'm a piece of shit I guess

I often load my editor and.. I dunno. I want to work but I have this block. I can't just force myself to do it. It's pretty pathetic given I have passion, I have a lot of design doc to follow, I want to do it, I enjoy doing it, and I've read all the philosophy about forcing yourself to just start and do.

But it never sticks for me and I have a very hard time just forcing myself.


 No.303

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>on disability, got all day in front of a PC to learn this shit

>a few times a year, spend 12+ hours a day every day for 1-6 weeks learning this or that coding language, engine, or gamedev skill like 3D modeling, animations, concepts of AI or map generation, etc

>always burn out trying to wrap my brain around some simple problem like movement, traction

At the end of the day, coding is just too tedious for me. I can't do it for long before I want to rip my hair out. It's not difficult. It's easy to think in object-oriented terms. It's the having to type up endless lines of bullshit for simple features that kills it for me.

I made a simple platformer, wanted to add difficulty levels, and having to go in and add % modifier variables to hp, attack damage, etc was insane. And every little tiny thing is like that. Every small thing you want to do is a small mountain of code to dream up, write out, and debug.


 No.309

you should all admit you are lazy, and you don't want to do what you want to do, either do it or you don't care about your "passion" so much


 No.313

im too lazy to finish pong tutorials




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