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[joeyspacerocks]

Hi - I wrote a blog post a while ago about the highs and lows of making a game in your spare time:

http://pixelated.postagon.com/5g437329d

It seemed to hit a chord with a lot of people when I first put it out there, so I thought I'd link from it here too in case someone can take some comfort from my experience.

[Gwartney21]

I have to say that it was a really good article to read.
I think any one who has done any thing with a personal projects even me at some point  along the line whether it be in game programming, or any project in general, has failed to get the project off the ground.
I think if more people were to follow more along the guide lines specified in the article in my opinion it can really help out a lot to get your projects finished.
Thanks for posting this.

[joeyspacerocks]

Thanks - I'm glad you liked it. I've come to realise that there's a lot of people in the same situation (and not just aspiring game devs).

Funnily enough I'm now going through exactly the same thing on my next game and trying hard to follow my own advice ...

[eyeliner]

Despite hyou don't show anything new, because we all know about feature creep, overambitious projects and time/life constraints, I liked how you described your case.

[erebusman]

Nice read although a little short for my taste. I would like to have seen a bit more personal introspection. 

The exploration (especially more in the concluding area) about differences between a day-time developer of a enterprise application and patterns/practices that were successful to make a small indie game that really got you on track at the end would have been a great area to flesh out a lot more with your thoughts rather than just bullet items of what you did possibly?

[joeyspacerocks]

Thanks for the feedback - yes, point taken.

The plan was to write some follow-up entries as a retrospective of the development (a reverse dev log), so expanding on these might be a good topic for another entry.