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Game Dev. Block 2023-10-04 12:16:26


I'm currently experiencing game development. block.

How do you get past it?

Response to Game Dev. Block 2023-10-05 01:16:37


Block in terms of creativity, or block in terms of not wanting to continue a given project? For the former, you can try and work on smaller projects, by participating in game jams where restrictions force you to think differently, and other things like that to exercise your creative muscles. For the latter, you'll just have to hunker down and get to work. It's common to lose motivation halfway during a project, and that's why most projects don't see the light of day - so either reduce the scope of the game, or continue to work on it.


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Response to Game Dev. Block 2023-10-05 09:31:55 (edited 2023-10-05 09:32:07)


For the former, you can try and work on smaller projects, by participating in game jams where restrictions force you to think differently, and other things like that to exercise your creative muscles. For the latter, you'll just have to hunker down and get to work. It's common to lose motivation halfway during a project, and that's why most projects don't see the light of day - so either reduce the scope of the game, or continue to work on it.


Thanks. That helps. However it's a combination of things. Normally I either can't think of an idea, spend hours trying to come up with something. Then finally coming up with an idea. But then realize that I can't do it due to the limitations of the Scratch game engine. I know I should use a better game engine. But I don't know what to use.

Response to Game Dev. Block 2023-10-06 13:09:30 (edited 2023-10-06 13:10:01)


At 10/5/23 09:31 AM, CalamityGanon wrote:
Thanks. That helps. However it's a combination of things. Normally I either can't think of an idea, spend hours trying to come up with something. Then finally coming up with an idea. But then realize that I can't do it due to the limitations of the Scratch game engine. I know I should use a better game engine. But I don't know what to use.

Try GDevelop. It's a good transition from visual to script to code based programming since it uses visual scripting by default but also allows you to use JS if you want.


There's also other threads which ask which engine to use such as this, perhaps go through those too.


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