WHY I ALMOST QUIT RPG MAKER (SEVERAL TIMES)

At least space out your posts.

Because you should leave one blank line.

I quit several times, I just kept trying to come with better ideas. If not the worst.

Three games in progress, mostly Ligara.

I just lost a little interest over Dreamwalker, because of how I lost some of the dialouge work I done. I should back up text using rmtext.

I quit because I have ADD...and graphics, mostly making graphics. They take forever and all that. Unlike using rips, everything is there and you just assemble them--which is tons easier and a lot of fun. Imagine like just doing the systems since it's already there and just going dakka dakka mode on the game making aspect.

That's why I'm glad BBI already had everything done for me. I just have to assemble them in the game.

Right. Exactly like Deacon has said: There will always be somebody better than you at something, just like there will always be somebody better than me. But do you decide to pack it in just because your skills aren't up to par with everybody else? No! Just focus and do the very best you can, and eventually, you will be on the same level and same pace like all of us. It's stupid to quit over something just because you may not have the same level of graphic capabilities like everybody else, or something like that.

Remember, "Winners, never quit. They just keep on winnnnnninnnnng!" :D

There will always be tons of people better than you... in real life and in the internet. That's the way it is. Live with that!

One important thing to remember though.

Whenever someone better than you quits you're one step closer to the top! (And even if someone worse than you quits that's one less guy you need to worry about)

The fact other people are better than you can be discouraging, indeed.

Turn it into motivation to crush them. Power yourself with your envy, strap the green-eyed monster to the yoke, and mak harder than you've ever makked before.

It gets a lot done!

...Of course, very rarely is anything ever a competition, so why care?

I've "quit" a few times, but never because anyone was better than me. I've known that all along. The way I look at it, a lot of folks here make The Elder Scrolls while I make King's Field. There's a definite gap in skill in our community, but it's all cool. Even the lesser skilled people can still make games that will entertain at least some people. The way I look at, if even one person on RMN or wherever says "I had fun playing your game!" then you succeeded.

My reason for quitting off and on has simply been lack of motivation. It's usually the result of not being able to get the graphics I want because, unless we're good at pixel art, we absolutely have to rely on whatever rips are out there if we want something decent looking unless we want to make some pretty poor looking custom graphics... And the problem with this is that rips that match what we have in our minds can be very difficult to come across.

Also sometimes I get overwhelmed with everything I have to do and it burns me out. For instance when I worked on Blackmoon Prophecy like a demon for about four months straight non-stop and accomplished more in that period than I did in a few years, I was just completely burned out and left the game alone for about three or four months because I just had no desire or motivation to work on it at all.

I believe that the whole point of making amateur/indie games is the possibility of making things no one else would... making things that reflect yourself, things that are fresh and new, experiment with the possibilities of game design. In that sense, this whole "better" thing doesn't make any sense. You can be the best rpg maker game developer ever, but XBOX games will still be way better than your pixel stuff.

I, basically, agreed.

author=calunio
You can be the best rpg maker game developer ever, but XBOX games will still be way better than your pixel stuff.

Completely untrue.
They have the advantage of a substantial budget and skilled technicians and artists, but that's no substitute for a great idea.

author=calunio
In that sense, this whole "better" thing doesn't make any sense. You can be the best rpg maker game developer ever, but XBOX games will still be way better than your pixel stuff.

You just made me die a little inside.

Without what we had in the past, Xbox would just be a nerd's little, wet dream.
People can still out-do what we have today, with 'pixel stuff' if they are professionals in that and have the time and dedication in making the classic style come back to life, and the team of people dedicated, as well. Story>Game-play>Graphics.
It isn't about having high definition, 3D graphics. You could polish a turd, but it still is a turd. 3D graphics won't make a crappy story line, or Game-Play any better. Which is the case with many games for this generation. Because they couldn't do better quality games, back in the day, they could only focus on quality of story, and how the game-play functioned.

(Don't need a team, but it helps take stress off of each other. More or less.)

Please, reread what you just said. You just made an angel weep.