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[MeshGearFox]

Hiding the body.
Finding it again.

[Tokinsom]

Collaborating remotely. Nothing has made me want to quit game dev more than that list of conflicts

[shellbot]

Collaborating remotely. Nothing has made me want to quit game dev more than that list of conflicts

+1 for this

I love that I can collab with people all around the world, but it can get super frustrating dealing with things like: different time zones, language barriers, disappearances, slow responses, and don't even get me started on scheduling.

 

[MeshGearFox]

When ur trying to code but u catch got watching u THHROOOOOOUGH the eyes of a horse



trill

[chrilley]

Not sure if it counts but in my case it's marketing/pr/community management stuff. I suck hard at it. I literally have no clue what I am doing.

[Diejay]

Not sure if it counts but in my case it's marketing/pr/community management stuff. I suck hard at it. I literally have no clue what I am doing.

This. I don't do "marketing" so much as "telling the most people about my game and crossing my fingers".

[Wacompen]

Not sure if it counts but in my case it's marketing/pr/community management stuff. I suck hard at it. I literally have no clue what I am doing.

This. I don't do "marketing" so much as "telling the most people about my game and crossing my fingers".

Agreed, at lease creating the game works physically if you do things right. Promotion is always a roll of the dice, no guarantees

[Poya]

Spending too much time reading up about how other people are building their game, approaching business / marketing, etc etc. It's definitely informative but at some point it has diminishing returns. I guess it does help with motivation.

[Photon]

I don't know if I'd say its the hardest part, but I often struggle to START a project. I know people talk about it feeling great to have a clean slate and to be filled with new ideas, but to me I feel uncertainty about where to start or what methodologies to use for my ideas. I feel a big part of this is not really planning ahead, so its hard to have momentum when you don't have two or three things sitting in the queue, ready to be worked on after you finish the current task. Things may have to be significantly changed later, but at the very least one actually has things to change in the first place.

But maybe that's just me.

[Oddball]

I don't know if I'd say its the hardest part, but I often struggle to START a project. I know people talk about it feeling great to have a clean slate and to be filled with new ideas, but to me I feel uncertainty about where to start or what methodologies to use for my ideas. I feel a big part of this is not really planning ahead, so its hard to have momentum when you don't have two or three things sitting in the queue, ready to be worked on after you finish the current task. Things may have to be significantly changed later, but at the very least one actually has things to change in the first place.

But maybe that's just me.

Do a few 24/48 hour game jams and you'll soon lose this fear. There's nothing like only having a day to work on a game to make you forget about planning and methodologies.

[Photon]

I don't know if I'd say its the hardest part, but I often struggle to START a project. I know people talk about it feeling great to have a clean slate and to be filled with new ideas, but to me I feel uncertainty about where to start or what methodologies to use for my ideas. I feel a big part of this is not really planning ahead, so its hard to have momentum when you don't have two or three things sitting in the queue, ready to be worked on after you finish the current task. Things may have to be significantly changed later, but at the very least one actually has things to change in the first place.

But maybe that's just me.

Do a few 24/48 hour game jams and you'll soon lose this fear. There's nothing like only having a day to work on a game to make you forget about planning and methodologies.

Oh, I have. Ludum Dare is fantastic, especially the first time I actually made the 48 hour compo (as opposed to the 72 hour one.) But I think the "attack" mentality doesn't work as well when your dev time is split between an hour here and an hour there, if that. Its far easier to lose momentum that way, I would think. That's why I'm trying to get better at organizing myself so that the brakes don't get slammed every time I miss a day.

On that same token, perhaps that's why starting can feel so hard; its trying to wind the crank and get momentum going again.

[Noyemi K]

The hardest part of game development is opening your tools in my opinion... once they're actually open, work gets done. When they're not, I have a hard time motivating myself to.