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[it_is_coming]

muthafuggin sprite animation. I can get by with art, but when I try to animate anything it all blows up.

[BoonzGamez]

I don't know exactly what makes me stop working on a game, but I think it's having several ideas and not knowing which one to implement next.
And sometimes lack of inspiration.

[MrLollige]

Quite a depressive topic btw. how about a new topic about how to solve these problems?

[ParaboL]

Too many games to play, I need to get off the player wagon and get into some creating action.

[Delmore]

Laziness.

[X-Tender]

Lack of Art Skills
And Perfectionism.

[warby]

lack of code skillz !

... oh hey x-tender :D

[JLJac]

I personally find it hard to keep my expectations low enough for the project to be doable and remain interested in it long enough finish it. All cool ideas are far beyond my possibilities and everything doable seems not worth the effort. :/

Spot on 

[medieval]

• Motivation - lack thereof (I am easily discouraged)
• Patience - lack thereof (when I get stuck at a major flaw/bug/problem that I can't wrap my mind around)

[Eclipse]

lazyness&procrastination is my greatest enemy 

[davidp]

I personally find it hard to keep my expectations low enough for the project to be doable and remain interested in it long enough finish it. All cool ideas are far beyond my possibilities and everything doable seems not worth the effort. :/

This. It really sucks, yea

[PureQuestion]

I know what you mean in your first post. everything easy seems boring, everything cool seems impossible to implement.

[Simon Andersson]

Distractions, shiny things and the internet.

[Alec S.]

Having to make art assets.  Finishing touches such as start menus, end screens, game over screens, etc... (it's not that they're all that hard, but more that I always procrastinate on those things.)

[Anthony Flack]

Perfectionism, and generally finding that doing anything to the standard I feel it needs to reach takes far longer than it probably deserves. Who wants to spend years making a single game? Not me! And yet, I do...

[Sash]

As soon as my code becomes messy or hard to work with, i get super demotivated. Sometimes i try redo it, but it just ends up adding hours and hours of work. Last game I finished i just made myself work with crap code. But i actually finished it! Woo.

[Overkill]

My biggest obstacle is being overwhelmed by the stuff I didn't plan for.

I usually start off with only a vague idea of a theme I want. I immediately jump into prototype things, and decide part way down the line, oh hey, to make this good, it needs substance. And so I try and make a design.

Unfortunately, since I didn't plan from the start, this design is incompatible with my prototype. I end up hitting a wall because my WIP game was not written to accomodate my new design plans. As I try and overcome my issues, I smash into a new, bigger design flaw obstacle. This eventually ends in me avoiding work for a while but yearning to fix it. Eventually I just give up, and find a new idea.



However, lately, I've been trying to remedy this by writing detailed plans in advance so that I am not at a loss about what needs to be done, and what features need to be there. In theory, since I have a high-level description of what I am making, repairing the flaws will be way easier. I've been using Dropbox and Notepad, and I've gradually been working away at it on my laptop and desktop. I WILL COMPLETE YOU, DESIGN DOCS.

[rpmoura]

Having an idea for another game that I think is better than the one I'm working on...

[aeiowu]

However, lately, I've been trying to remedy this by writing detailed plans in advance so that I am not at a loss about what needs to be done, and what features need to be there. In theory, since I have a high-level description of what I am making, repairing the flaws will be way easier. I've been using Dropbox and Notepad, and I've gradually been working away at it on my laptop and desktop. I WILL COMPLETE YOU, DESIGN DOCS.

I know i'll catch a lot of flack for this, but I think detailed design docs are mostly useless, especially when it comes to small teams. They end up being a good way to not get any real work done.

Iterate. Roll with the punches. Celebrate the happy-mistakes.

[Klaim]

Today I'm fighting perfectionism, procrastination and other common problems and it seems to work well as I see my game is growing.

But it's growing slowly...


So, now my main obstacle in creating games is about working alone (no team) on a "big" project, and on spare time.

I guess that working on everything on the game makes me better game developer but working too slowly on spare time can quickly depress.