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[makerofthegames]

it only took me a little while to figure out that there's no reason to make a fan game when you can make an original game.

There's two semi-reasons to make a fangame:

- You can get music and graphics already complete from e.g. tSR and get to coding the game at once
- You get bonus attention from people liking the original game

At least those two reasons are what keeps making me embark on new fangame projects every now and a while.

The main reason is that you would want to tribute the thing you're making a fangame of, hence fangame.
Note; nobody should think that fangames have to be a "clone" as in, trying to remake a game. Tributes to shows, movies, books, games, etc can have many forms. Including this.

[AhmedElyamani]

Probably once every month! I'm very picky and if it takes longer than three weeks to make I'm not interested in it, though I do try and revisit them in a years rime :D

better complete the current project ! i guess you know what i mean

@the topic : i often have some brilliant ideas and start with them . then i give up because i can't continue throw .. like get stuck in a situation and no body can help coding ! .. how often? since i've started with gm (a year ago) .. i left behind me about 7 projects ! and onl;y done my first game and 2 other projects ! .. i also used game maker to create useful programms for work and some other stuff !

[Fireball16]

Probably once every month! I'm very picky and if it takes longer than three weeks to make I'm not interested in it, though I do try and revisit them in a years time

better complete the current project ! i guess you know what i mean

@the topic : i often have some brilliant ideas and start with them . then i give up because i can't continue throw .. like get stuck in a situation and no body can help coding ! .. how often? since i've started with gm (a year ago) .. i left behind me about 7 projects ! and onl;y done my first game and 2 other projects ! .. i also used game maker to create useful programms for work and some other stuff!

Hahah! I will *crosses fingers* also I am yet to complete a project and I've been at it for two years, your doing better than me

[Zesterer]

Hey, I've been doing it for over 3 years and I'm yet to finish a game - but his one will be finished. I've already worked on it for over 4 times any of my other projects. And I've got musical, graphial, and model support... It will happen!

[Foxikado]

I've given up on most games i've started, But i learned something from most of them, The Reason i gave up is that I'm not very good with graphics or sound and i dont really have any means to let others play them if they ever got near being finished.
Though if i start a game any time soon i will have the GM site to put them on

Edited by Foxikado, 18 September 2011 - 03:58 PM.

[GameRoom]

Here's some advice for people that give up on projects too much: make sure you work on the game every day. No exceptions. If you skip one day because "you don't feel like working on it," you'll end up doing the same thing the next day. Force yourself to make even a little bit of progress and before you know it you'll be working on the game multiple hours a day and you'll feel edgy about the next thing you want to do. Just 30 minutes will do. Soon enough that number will grow exponentially. The hard part of the game will soon be done, and you'll be working on gameplay before you know it.

So this advice doesn't apply as well to people who have 5 different shiny new ideas, but still. Force yourself.

Edited by GameRoom, 19 September 2011 - 01:27 AM.

[JonathanPzone]

Someone needs to make a GameMaker Planner, so I can track and estimate progress because I'm really bad at it and I don't feel like buying a planner for that purpose.

I'm really bad at abandoning projects. Mostly I get a lot of hard stuff done, and then by doing so I think "Now that I know how to <insert newly learned technique here>, I have a really cool idea that could use it".

Most of the things I've made get to a "Proof of Concept" stage and I just kind of start something new. I don't think I've ever finished anything really. The only two I can think of were made in my first years of GM: The Adventures of Wittleman and Astro-Janitor.

Which were hilariously bad.

Thankfully I've been able to keep at my current project (*wink wink* in the sig) for half a year now.

But I'll tell you with everything I do,
I always manage to learn something new.

[icuurd12b42]

Someone needs to make a GameMaker Planner, so I can track and estimate progress because I'm really bad at it and I don't feel like buying a planner for that purpose.

I'm really bad at abandoning projects. Mostly I get a lot of hard stuff done, and then by doing so I think "Now that I know how to <insert newly learned technique here>, I have a really cool idea that could use it".

Most of the things I've made get to a "Proof of Concept" stage and I just kind of start something new. I don't think I've ever finished anything really. The only two I can think of were made in my first years of GM: The Adventures of Wittleman and Astro-Janitor.

Which were hilariously bad.

Thankfully I've been able to keep at my current project (*wink wink* in the sig) for half a year now.

But I'll tell you with everything I do,
I always manage to learn something new.

Why bother making one. so many out there
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=free+project+planner

[JonathanPzone]

Ah. Well I was merely thinking aloud.

I'll look through it when I get back from school.

[epicpiedude]

I give up because I SUCK at level designing and I throw so much into the first level I can NEVER get it to stay good for more than the third level.

[VerdantRain]

I used to try to learn everything at once. I had sprite tutorials, piano lessons, music theory books, programming books, and writing advice in front of me at once, ready to take on my dream of game designer. So...Needless to say, I gave up after the tutorials because it became a bit daunting to do every little thing that I planned to do. I've only given up on one game, my only game, and that was a while ago. I'm trying to get out into the world as a writer for games now, so, I guess I really don't have a new project just yet. Haha.

[Debels]

I give up in projects a lot! XD, before each month I deleted 1 or 2 GB of .gmk but I'm currently working on DPReg System and WoD and I'm not quitting on them :D and now i only delete 1 MB each moth of things i do for DPReg System and WoD

[Dark Matter]

I'm not quitting on them

That's what they all say...

[Debels]

I'm not quitting on them

That's what they all say...

I know right XD

but this 1 im sure im not quiting on them you can check the things i have done :D i started 2 days ago :D http://www.debels.co....php?f=17&t=161

[chance]

Let's be careful talking about "giving up" on projects. Because there's two different types of reasons:

Type 1. you give up because you lose interest... and/or don't have the discipline to finish anything.

Type 2. you give up because you learn a new capability, and decide to work in a new direction.

Type 2 is part of the learning process. You change direction, but you learned a lot from the attempt. So even though you don't finish the game, you gained something from the effort.

But Type 1 is procrastination. You aren't cut out for game making. You're just a loser who will probably wind up in rehab... or prison.

[makerofthegames]

But Type 1 is procrastination. You aren't cut out for game making. You're just a loser who will probably wind up in rehab... or prison.

Gee, that's a nice way to help people not procrastinate.

Edited by makerofthegames, 15 October 2011 - 12:28 PM.

[Debels]

Let's be careful talking about "giving up" on projects. Because there's two different types of reasons:

Type 1. you give up because you lose interest... and/or don't have the discipline to finish anything.

Type 2. you give up because you learn a new capability, and decide to work in a new direction.

Type 2 is part of the learning process. You change direction, but you learned a lot from the attempt. So even though you don't finish the game, you gained something from the effort.

But Type 1 is procrastination. You aren't cut out for game making. You're just a loser who will probably wind up in rehab... or prison.

my reason is the type 2

[Geordie Bloke]

I haven't released a game. I've worked on them, but every few months, I'd realise the story was convoluted (or that something popular, probably Doctor Who, had just done the same plot), the gameplay was clunky, or that it might work better with another style of play. A few months on from that, I'd go through the files and grab the basic concept for the central character, a few scraps of storyline and possibly some enemy sprites.

I've got a rule: don't announce a project as a work-in-progress until it can be played through from start to finish. My current project is at least 95% complete, and I still think it's too early to officially announce it.

[Adequate]

PLAN EVERYTHING

as in , ima do this then this then this ... *time lapse* ... then ima finished

[chance]

I haven't released a game. I've worked on them, but every few months, I'd realise the story was convoluted...

I think that happens to lots of people. Personally, I think many of us spend too much time worrying about storyline -- and not enough time coding. It's understandable because imagining different stories is fun. But sometimes it becomes a preoccupation that actually keeps us from finishing a game.

as in , ima do this then this then this ... *time lapse* ... then ima finished

+1 for that game design advice, Kanye.