HAVE YOU EVER LOST HOPE IN YOUR PROJECT

Yes!

Demon Legacy (the original on rm2k) I couldn't figure out how to make a change party system, so I canceled it.

Valikorlia : Thought it would be the greatest thing ever, but it wasn't. A ton of design flaws and plot holes. Canceled.

Zero : A game that was totally not a rip off of Xenogears, really! It had no world map, opting rather to use an overworld similar to Dragon Destiny (instead of a world map, navigation was done like a zelda game) you could cut bushes, jump and so on; canceled when I couldn't male the robot exo suit sprites.

Demon Legacy Redux (rm2k, remake number one!) : Rushed the end for... some reason I can't recall right now.

Demon Legacy 2 : A sequel to the Redux telling of the... "story". I scrapped it when I realized that it was the same damn game with different character skins.

Useless Fun Fact : Demon Legacy was remade 5 times.

I just started my first project and am totally excited to realease it. I am afraid I will be critised to the core sometimes and other times I am exited everyone will like it. I suppose I will find out once it is done but like everyone said, "Your first project will probably suck but you can learn from your mistakes." So that's what I am going to set myself up to do. This topic has helped me understand what is to come in the near future. ;)

Yeah, I lost hope in a game called Celestial Descent (aka game #9 out of 10- meaning I should be free to make good games by now) mainly because of the reviews for it, but also because the second half of it was a bit hard to pull off in RM2k.

That said, it might eventually come back, knowing what I know now that I didn't know in 2002 about game design. I took an entire semester in game design just this past fall.

I'm scared of criticism and what people think of my games, but I make my games for fun, and to prepare me of a career in Game Design, if I choose that path. I take the criticism, and that's one reason why I have 5 other games coming out for the series. With people talking about mapping or story elements, I just incorporate that into the next game and hope for the better. There is never a game that everyone will love so much that they can't find anything wrong with it. Like the saying, "Nobody's Perfect," There's "No game is perfect the first time." ???

I'm scared of criticism and what people think of my games, but I make my games for fun, and to prepare me of a career in Game Design, if I choose that path. I take the criticism, and that's one reason why I have 5 other games coming out for the series. With people talking about mapping or story elements, I just incorporate that into the next game and hope for the better. There is never a game that everyone will love so much that they can't find anything wrong with it. Like the saying, "Nobody's Perfect," There's "No game is perfect the first time." Huh

Well said. If you cannot take criticism with maturity, and cannot learn from that criticism, then you'll never grow as a Game Designer. However, it's important to know when someone is being critical of your game (as in objective) and when they are just tearing it down because they don't like it. The hardest thing in the world is to accept the fact that not everyone will like your work. To add onto what you said, "No game is perfect, ever". Someone, somewhere, will always have bad things to say about your games.

As for the criticism point: I think while it is vital for a developer to be able to take valid criticisms and learn/improve based on them (so fundamental that it feels rather redundant to even have to say), the concept sometimes carries over too strongly and get exploited. Somewhat reminds me of "Big boys don't cry."

Criticisms here are a bit different from commercial criticisms on large scaled project and the like; because here it is all on personal grounds to an extent. What people often forget when criticizing is that while it is only the negatives that may potentially help the project on a physical/design level, stating the positives or molding the rhetorics are just as important since they give them some water to swallow the pill with.

In the end I think makers around these boards are still people who do naturally feel things. So while it is the job of the developer to be able to absorb the actual content of the criticisms, it is also the job of a skillful critic to be able to deliver it in an absorbable manner.

That being said, what I've seen in my time around RMN in particular have been pretty well-rounded.

I have never not lost faith in my project.

I've just come to realize that the part of the game I'm working on - the end of the game - will likely only be played by a handful of people, if any. Kind of demoralizing.

I'm shooting for a half-a-dozen people to play through to the end...we'll see how that goes.