CALUNIO'S PROFILE

I totally understand. I worked on a game intensely for almost three years, and I still miss it. I miss the process of making it, of thinking about it. I miss the characters, I miss caring about it. It is painful.

I'm finishing another game right now and having the same feeling.

Just try and learn to enjoy the missing.

Thanks guys!

author=Marrend
On one of the times I darted into the Discord channel, I happened to come across a few screencaps/GIFs. They looked pretty damn slick! The one thing I'm not quite sure of is how much of what I was seeing is event-based processing versus script-based processing?

*Edit: I think I saw the posts in the gammak-help channel, talking about arrays, and how you were looking to make arrays for specific stats for the party members, or... something? Forgive my lapse of memory here.

I'm using two essential plugins, one for pathfinding and one for event spawning, which I use to place the tiles for movement range. The rest of it I'm making myself. I have been learning some very basic scripting, and it's making a huge difference. None of it I couldn't make with events, but scripting just makes it easier and cleaner.

I guess that's why I'm having so much fun. I always wanted to so a TBS, but never had the skills to do one. I still don't (completely), but I'm in a process of problem -> learn something new -> solve it.

author=zDS
is it therapy wars

where therapists war with one another

That's actually an idea I had for a TV show once. Different therapist work with members of romantic couples, and they secretly work to have their member of the couple be more awesome than the other. They ruin marriages over petty internal battles.
Not sure it would fit a TBS though.

Sorry to hear that. :(
What happened?

You guys know exactly what I mean, and I feel validated.

I'm still on the "will anyone care?" moment, and it's too soon to make anything out of it.

But it also feels too soo to start thinking of other games, so I feel like I should make a pause in gamemaking (as I'm coming out of a 7 year pause) and focus my life on other things. But I left everything behind to focus on gammaking, so I don't know how to do anything else anymore.

I mean, I'm living my life normally (within pandemic restrictions), but I lack that kind of motivation you only get when dedicating yourself to a big project.

I was going to say some things, but most of it has already been said. I agree with everyone else.

But I want to empathize. Because I understand what you’re going through. Making a game can have such a big emotional investment. And the bigger the investment, the riskier it is in terms of frustration. I honestly don’t think it’s possible to put a lot of energy into making a game without caring about what other people will think. I agree we should make games we want to exist, but there is a huge social aspect in game making. A bad reception can be devastating. I feel that your negative depressive tone is completely rational (though in truth I’m not familiar with your game and it’s reception).

So, basically, yeah, it sucks big time. And the worst part of it is that there’s a huge luck factor in a game’s popularity. Some games blow up because some famous youtube played it, and they’re not even that good. Some games just don’t get a shot at the light.

My advice? Two options. One, mourn it, and eventually get over it. Life sucks sometimes, and it’s not healthy to deny it.
Two, advertise it even more until you feel like you got good feedback. But don’t aim for numbers. I feel like nice detailed feedback is always more rewarding than download count and stuff.