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[Overloaded]

Hello there. As you can see in the title I would like to know what do you love/hate most in gamemaking. Me personally, I love programming and writing codes and I hate making/finding/changing the sprites and I also hate trying to destroy the bugs/glitches of the game. What do you love/hate?

Note: If I posted it on wrong forum, please move it thanks .

[AlexTM]

I hate finding a texture through like 300 sub-folders in the Backgrounds folder.

[TheSnidr]

I hate when the games I transcribe from my thoughts are weak shadows of the original idea

[NicroGames]

I love the start of every project. I also love everything else about game development, but not always on the same time. I mean, sometimes I like to make graphics, sometimes code, etc.

I hate the last couple of percentage before completion, but I have found a way to motivate me through that.

[Mr. RPG]

I hate making the graphics, because it is my weakest point, even though it really is a strong point of any game.

[Desert Dog]

Love: First half(10% of work) of making a game.
Hate: Final 10%(50% of work) of making a game.

Edited by Desert Dog, 26 February 2012 - 08:46 PM.

[orange08]

What Desert Dog said.
I really like starting work on a game, especially if it has some fun ideas involved. It's great to see your ideas turn into reality on a computer screen. But near the end of development you have to actually make the game easily playable for some random guy who knows nothing of the controls, strategy, and design. I always seem to leave the worst stuff to do last. Which is why a lot of my past projects are abandoned.

More specifically, when it comes to programming, graphics, and design, I like doing all 3 to a certain extent. I like designing things, it's fun to come up with new ways to do things and new ideas. Programming is how you put an idea onto the screen, there is a certain air of satisfaction when you finish making a tough script... I can't stand it when I run into bugs that halt game progression for days on end. Often I will just dive into the pool of code and hope to see the problem, that works occasionally, but usually it's better to step back, imagine how the code works in your mind. Maybe try to rewrite the code. Often the solutions to your problems are right underneath your nose... sometimes I want to smash my head with a sledgehammer for not seeing things that are so simple.

Graphics are sometimes not even necessary, because of programming effects.(my favorite kind of graphics to make ) But sometimes it's fun to draw stuff if you have a clear style in mind(1 pixel outline or 2? Cartooney or realistic?)

Edited by orange08, 26 February 2012 - 09:07 PM.

[twelveways]

Love seeing visions become reality, hate debugging, balancing etc, anything that is repetetive.

[Saijee]

I love everything about making games. (Be it graphics, sound effects, music, programming, level design, story, or even balancing.)

I hate the fact that my day is usually too busy to spend as much time making progress on my games than I'd like.

[11clock]

I love level designing and coding boss fights.

I hate making graphics because it's my weak point and I know that people will judge my games by their graphics, what I look at as the least important part of a game. (I could play a game with a bunch of squares for graphics and still enjoy it.)

Edited by 11clock, 28 February 2012 - 05:06 PM.

[Zesterer]

Hate: Getting a main base engine made.
Love: Creating the beginnings of the game around the original engine
Hate: Getting to the middle of the game and getting bored.
Love: It all starting to come together.
Hate: The last 5% of development
Hate: Testing and debugging
Hate: Marketing

That's about it...

[daman123125]

Hate: bugs that occur due to a simple typo in over 9000 lines of code
Love: when I'm actually excited to work on the game

[daniel_lemke]

I love making engines fast and solid. I hate coming up with content.

[Docopoper]

Love - Making an engine that delivers false promises of getting out of repetitive labour.


Hate - Using an engine that delivers false promises of getting out of repetitive labour.


Love - Coming up with an original game dynamic.


Hate - Realising why I've never seen any other games with that dynamic.

[adhgarra]

I love coming up with ideas mainly.. Sometimes spriting depends on how many there are.. Least favorite is finding sounds or the music making..

[BattleRifle BR55]

What I love most - hitting a milestone.
What I hate most - realizing I have to do it again.

[ND4SPD]

I gave thesnidr a +1 because that's my biggest problem. I'm much more of a designer now, and I'm OCD, so it frustrates me when, due to my programming limitations or the hardware limitations or whatever, my game never ends up how I wanted it to. Damn.

[RacerBG]

Im a newbie still thats why Im hating the coding process and ofcourse the final hours of development......and when I find a bug damn it!

[True Valhalla]

I love watching a community form around my game.

I hate the tedium that programming often presents.

[AhmedElyamani]

I love writing codes and seeing them working properly .
i love working on the project at the beginning.
I love drawing interfaces and images for the projects.

I hate when a bug happens and i don't know why.
I hate when i spend days writing a code and suddenly i find it;s worthless and i have to change\rewrite it.
I hate when i have to find the exact x,y position for drawing something (You know what i mean?).
I HATE when i lose my best project's all files .