/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General★

embrace the suck

You either do it or you don't. Those are the only two options. Any time spent thinking about it is time spent avoiding it. Do, or do not. There is no try.

OP please. I had to learn math completely from scratch again, learn programming at the time some people actually complete college, I work a hard labor job, I draw and learn music theory, and I am learning web development besides also working on my game, which nobody cares about. And I sleep for like 5 hours and constantly feel like dropping, and I don't even own a home and at any point I could be kicked out.

Get on my level before you complain about doing nothing, fuck your mood, I don't give a shit. You either do what you want or don't care about it enough. I'd rather kill myself working on the things that I like that going an hero right now.

>>25323 (OP)

>How do I gain discipline and make something, and to keep it consistent.

When my mind starts drifting I wind up staring at the ceiling.

I put a poster on my ceiling that says, "FOCUS".

That worked for a while, but then I stopped looking at it. I would stare at the wall instead. I put up a poster on the wall with some indie games getting good reviews, for inspiration.

That worked for a while, I was able to get part way through a game about suicide. The game made me depressed. No one I showed the alpha to liked it either.

Then I realized something. I took my sharpie and wrote "FUCK US" on the game review poster.

After staring at the poster for a while, something just clicked. I realized I didn't even have to finish my game to get it published!

Now I run an anti-cyberbullying service.

t. ZQ

You've already gotten the "just do it" advice, which is the best you can get on this topic.

I will add that, for me, I have to just accept that I have to not do things I would rather do in order to get progress made - namely, I like to listen to podcasts about politics, but if I do that, I am unable to focus on writing anything, so I have to listen to noise generators or nonvocal soundtracks appropriate to whatever I'm trying to write.

Try not to break your daily momentum. Even if you can only spare twenty minutes to work every day, do what you can in that timeframe, just as long as you can avoid missing a whole day of working on whatever you're doing. Momentum is very easy to lose and very hard to get back, so hold onto it as long as you can.

Actually there are better things to do than JUST WORK.

1) Make a list of everything you need to do for a project. EVERYTHING. At least what's forseeable. Since you're an ideaguy, you should actually like it.

This is your "project backlog".

Don't worry if it won't be good enough.

2) Next time you'll have time to do something, take a look at your "project backlog" first. Select a number of things you think you'll be able to accomplish. It's called "sprint".

Try to be realistic, but don't worry about undershooting/overshooting it at this point.

3) Try to accomplish the tasks you gave yourself in a "sprint". Work as hard as you can to do so.

4) After the sprint is over, take your time to think over what happened. Did you force yourself to do too much? What did you have problem with? Did you finish too quickly? Remember to take that into account when planning the next sprint. It's really important to do.

If you'll notice that your project backlog is not good enough, this is the time to analyse the changes that have to get made. Again, you'll like doing it, ideafag.

5) Do the sprints as long as you'll get satisfied with your work.

>>25323 (OP)

>Nodev 02/16/16

your namefag says it all