Ackk! You can't do that! I'm using it!

EDIT: Revision fail.

I've just deployed another wave of updates on the site, including finishing up the voting system.

Just to rehash for those who haven't read the rules - in just under 8 hours, voting begins. At that point, you may no longer sign up or edit your wishlist. TL;DR: register if you want to, and make sure your wishlist is complete.

Good luck to all the participants. I withdrew from it. I realized that with my current experience I couldn't make a game in 7 days. Have fun!

I have no time right now... I couldn't justified the time spent on it right now. But I swear that I'll participate in one of this competitions some day goddammit!.

@Arvidsson

Don't waste your time... Specter Phoenix suffers Bipolar disorder (historically known as manic–depressive disorder), practically this:

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I'm not trying to change anyone's mind, merely offering some advice for people who might feel like him when it comes to being not sufficiently experienced and finishing projects in general. I've succumbed to this myself on many occasions, and what it gets down to is basically either you're motivated enough to finish it or you're not. It doesn't matter what it is, could be of any scale really, the finishing part is the really gratifying thing though.

Major reasons why people don't finish stuff (aside from a drop in motivation because motivation is a fickle thing):

• Trying to create a perfect engine or framework and thus you're not really creating anything tangible. You end up in a constant loop of improving the engine, concluding it must be shit since you don't create anything with it and then you end up starting over from scrap because this time you have a better plan/idea/whatever

• Trying to create something that's already been done before and is either way over you head (an MMORPG anyone?) or you're doomed to end up trying to create something that most certainly will be much inferior to the original idea (due to working alone and/or not having enough talent when it comes to art and sfx) which of course hurts motivation

• Trying to create something that is an awesome idea but then you get another great idea and then another one, and in a few years you have a folder of plenty of cool projects that are going nowhere

There is no easy solution to how to actually finish something, but trying doesn't hurt. Motivation is a hard thing to master, and experience itself doesn't really guarantee completion, mostly it's just hard work and sticking to it no matter what.

And even though programming is mostly just a hobby for many people, and thus you should only do it if it's fun, there are parts of anything you want to master that's not really fun. I'm pretty good at playing piano but I hate practicing it. Luckily I pick things up fairly quickly, and when I have learned a piece I love to play it over and over until someone cries out for me to stop. Mastery is what we like, but getting there is often a pain in the butt. However, if mastery isn't worth the grief and the fun is nowhere to be found anywhere then obviously you should do something else.

Life lesson ends here.

Yeah, I'm in a similar boat. Basically have to be done by the 20th because that's when I'm taking the flight home. Might have some time after that but my family will probably require me to do social things.

I can only confirm this. For example I took part in several ludumdare 48 hours competitions in the past and only once did I score in the top 3 in any category. It was the one time when I didn't have the full weekend and instead opted to just make a very simple game in a few hours. Knowing how little time I have I opted to simply writing a text adventure. I think in the end it had 5 different rooms with 2 or 3 dialogs in each, playing the complete game took only a few minutes. And yet somehow I managed to get high ratings in the "humor" category and won 3rd place in it.

So now while from a technology standpoint it's the worst ld48 entry I ever coded, it seems to be the one people most enjoyed playing. Even though I completely skipped on the usual core parts of any game like graphics or collision detection.

You may want to look into that a little more. Every case I've ever heard about people with BPD were violent due to poor temper control due to BPD. I'm not violent. BPD got huge press when several actors and actresses came forward about their BPD. Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor from Terminator) said all her marriages failed because of her violent mood swings due to her BPD.

I'm just stressed because I have a wife and son, went to college foolishly thinking they would give me the skills needed to become a programmer. Finished with it and now 2 years out I'm no where near being a competent programmer. I doubt myself all the time when it comes to my programming. Easier to be down and doubt than be positive and do.

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@Specter Phoenix: I know quite a few people that suffer BPD, and they are all non violent. They quickly swing between overly excited to depressed, (or to a level of each). Neither of those states have any suggestion of violence. If they don't deal with it, it can lead to complications. If they are violent that is a sociopath disorder, which is unrelated, but sometimes people can unfortunately suffer both.

There is a big difference between a psychological problem and a psychiatric problem. BPD is a psychiatric one, where violence is a psychological one. (There are exceptions to this, where the chemical balance in their brain causes the violent behaviour.)

Sorry for the rant, I am one of the minimum required mentally unhealthy people on this forum.
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I'm about to vote now and just installing Code::Blocks ect onto my new Laptop since it came today (yes this is my 2nd new system in the last 5 months )

I have been given the wireless key to my neighbours house too so now I have a decent connection from home until ours is fixed. She does turn her router off at nights but at least I can now get on the forums.

Voting now done and I voted on good ideas not ones I know that I can do. (Too many I's but couldn't think of any other way to put it) Noticed there is a lot of platform type wishes so I am going to learn some methods around that as I've never really gotten into the physics and collisions needed before.

Nice wishes guys

Oh damn, did I miss registration?

EDIT:

I did.

Stupid finals.