Keeping Motivation Up During a Game Jam
If you continue to push on and it’s making the fear worse then stop doing it, try something else or have a break from it and come back at a later date when you’ve had time to relax your mind. If the engine is key to your project then try and open up a dummy project and play around with things.
Industry veterans and GameDev.tv’s Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* are here to offer tips about keeping your motivation up during a game jam.
At one stage or another, we all find it hard to keep motivated. This Devology Livecast should help you overcome this.
(*Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's very own Instructor extraordinaire. Tim Ruswick is a successful YouTuber and indie dev, who's created more than 30 games in the last 5 years (wow!), and joined GameDev.tv as our marketing monster).
Listen to the whole chat here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYQJH29PAp0
Our 'AHA' moments
- Descope your projects
- Pick a priority and focus on that
- Bad feedback doesn’t always mean the game is bad
- Turn fear into fun
YouTube Channel.Until next time, happy dev'ing!