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It's hard trying to make something on my own while being depressed. It's hard enough working with depression, but at least at work there is someone telling me what I have to do and when do I need to have it completed. But I'm trying to make a game on my own and a lot of times I just feel lost, not knowing what to do, and I can just choose to do nothing, there is no one demanding me to finish it, or keep doing it. Also, the scope of the game is probably larger than what I should have done, I started working on it I think more than five years ago. That doesn't mean I've been working on it for five years, I do it on my free time, which is a lot, but I also sometimes just stop working on it. Today I opened the project after maybe 8 months of not doing anything on it, and I barely did anything anyway (only changed some animations). I know the advice of start smaller, etc, I've finished some very small games by myself already. Now I just want to finish with this one, I dont care if it's not that good, but I just feel stuck. Also, it's not only my low mood preventing me to finish, I also have game design related problems or maybe something else. This is not a post asking for help, I just wanted to write it here since I have no-one to talk about this with.
 
It's sad but known that depression kills things like motivation, imagination, concentration, etc so it's no wonder you keep hitting road blocks. It's good that you want to complete it, and I guess it would be an idea to come up with a plan to what's left that needs to be done, at least then each time you start it up again you can just follow that.
 
It's hard trying to make something on my own while being depressed. It's hard enough working with depression, but at least at work there is someone telling me what I have to do and when do I need to have it completed. But I'm trying to make a game on my own and a lot of times I just feel lost, not knowing what to do, and I can just choose to do nothing, there is no one demanding me to finish it, or keep doing it. Also, the scope of the game is probably larger than what I should have done, I started working on it I think more than five years ago. That doesn't mean I've been working on it for five years, I do it on my free time, which is a lot, but I also sometimes just stop working on it. Today I opened the project after maybe 8 months of not doing anything on it, and I barely did anything anyway (only changed some animations). I know the advice of start smaller, etc, I've finished some very small games by myself already. Now I just want to finish with this one, I dont care if it's not that good, but I just feel stuck. Also, it's not only my low mood preventing me to finish, I also have game design related problems or maybe something else. This is not a post asking for help, I just wanted to write it here since I have no-one to talk about this with.
Taking natural serotonin helps 5 htp - lots of natural forms of it.
 

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