BLIND'S PROFILE

Incredible work here, especially the hero animations.

author=Dyhalto

author=Craze
dyhalto you're gonna cut yourself on your edge

There's nothing edgy about telling someone to take a step back, examine reality and consider alternatives. In fact, it's about as un-edgy as one can be.
Kickstarter and Patreon are not reliable sources of income, or even good sources of aid, really. And not to take a dump on Feld, but he has no completed games to show for years of labor (unlike, say, BadLuck and harmonic), and CotLE is, when you boil it down, just another jRPG made in RPG Maker, much disdained in the indie community. Are those the ingredients for a successful kickstarter/patreon campaign?

I agree with your overall statement (Kickstarter is terrible to rely on for an overall budget), but I don't think it's fair to single out Feld. BadLuck didn't technically have a single completed game, either, until the legal Rm2k3 rolled out. Whether or not an RMN developer can churn out short bursts of 'finished' content or small-size games doesn't always mean they can deliver on a large-scale/monetized project.

IndieGogo is another route you could take, although I think it's significantly less popular than KS. You don't have to meet any particular goal to pocket the funds raised, though.

I would wait until you have quite a bit more content and original assets to show off before making the leap to crowdfunding, especially because most people only have one shot at nailing their campaigns.

author=StevieRayBones
Ok, here is my first try.

Looking a LOT better.

Keeping working at it - the tiles themselves seem distorted, but I think that's probably because you saved it as JPG. But the map itself is pretty nice/average.

author=unity
If this is something that happens repeatedly, then look at what you are working on and how you feel about it. If you just need a break from it, then piano's jam suggestion may be just what the doctor ordered.

On the other hand, if you're still having the problem even after taking a break and/or working on a jam game, there might be something else going on. I worked on a project on and off for ten years and had to abandon it, because I looked back at the start and my feelings on the project had changed. I no longer felt the game itself was meeting my own standards and had become too bloated for its own good, and I didn't want to spend another ten years fixing it.

Yeah, I think you nailed it.

It's a strange mixture of burnout, and also just feeling creatively frustrated in realizing how much content I'd still have to "update" to make the game consistently strong, and up to my newer standards. I have a deep love for the project, obviously, and I've stuck around for a long time to see it through to the end...but I do have moments where I'm not sure if it's still the same type of game I want to be designing any longer.

(I could also have play tested it so many times that my evaluation isn't entirely objective anymore, though. XD)

My prideful side doesn't want to admit I've been in the community for 10+ years (on and off), without having entirely completed anything lol. What was the point you reached where you started to consider moving on?

Fantastic art design here! The painterly quality to your maps and characters is deeply refreshing.