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List your Top 5 reasons you don't get your projects done
#1  October 05, 2014, 07:22:32 pm
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hey guys over the years of my witnessing and experience in the Mugen community since 2006, 8 years ago, I can see that many projects have come and gone. characters, stages, full games, and many many other projects just get delayed, and then never are heard of again.

I remember there was CvS:CC, Shugen Do, and that one game by The_None with the MFG members, and many other projects. This thread is just to discuss and ask ourselves, why is it that everything gets abandoned when so far in progress? list your reasons why you think, or you know....

For me personally I was supposed to work on more CvS2 characters and finish a much anticipated character, but I procrastinated and then lost that HD and now I cant retrieve all my works on her.

this is what I think:

1) Laziness
2) Lack of manpower (lack of: spriters, sound designers, graphics designers, coders, AI coders)
3) Distractions
4) Lack of fighting game experience
5) Lack of a team working together (usually it's a single one or two man doing huge spriting, coding, character, or fullgame projects, and it does get lonely)

what do you think?
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#2  October 05, 2014, 07:41:25 pm
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Re: List your Top 5 reasons you don't get your projects done
#3  October 05, 2014, 08:25:18 pm
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For me, it would be

1 ) Simple whim.
2)  Frustration with being unable to get something in the character's system to work exactly as it does in source.
3) Technical issues.
4) Resource Issues.
5) Someone else releasing a decent enough version of what I was working on, putting that project's priority down to the bottom.
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#4  October 05, 2014, 08:26:35 pm
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1) Lazy
2) Lazy
3) Lazy
4) Lazy
5) A better idea pops up all the time

(THIS TIME THOUGH I FOUND THE ONE)
(this is what I tell myself all the time)

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#5  October 05, 2014, 08:31:50 pm
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1.) Obligatory lazy mention.

2.) Lack of motivation. Working on stages or anything else isn't as easy as it used to be for me, being exhausted from work or just wanting to relax sometimes mugen feels like work. I only work on stuff when I feel like it, unless i'll never finish it.

That's pretty much it for me, I got ideas and resources, i'm just lazy and unmotivated most of the time. I find that i enjoy helping others a lot more, but there are times when i work on something and it increases my motivation.
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#6  October 05, 2014, 08:58:41 pm
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1. Dont have a very long free time to concentrate.
2. New game
3. New toy
4. Lazy
5. Forget where I keep all those file, or lost it when change to new PC (lost so many projects because of this -*-)


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Re: List your Top 5 reasons you don't get your projects done
#7  October 05, 2014, 09:18:54 pm
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Marriage and work lol, for the other 3, did I mention marriage?..... she hates when I spend time on mugen :(
Re: List your Top 5 reasons you don't get your projects done
#8  October 06, 2014, 08:24:09 am
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1) Slow in learning, reading, practicing, testing how all things are done, dozen of times
2) Making my character near perfect like he is in his game
3) Studying game mechanic dozen of times
4) Busy with course exam (currently  :()
5) Planing on future career life (NO!  :bigcry:)

when will this personal crises ends? it just won't stop!
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#9  October 06, 2014, 08:41:48 am
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1. work
2. sex
3. work
4. being tired from the first 3
5. computer issues

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#10  October 06, 2014, 08:47:21 am
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1) Hard to get into a working mood
2) Lack of inspiration
3) Other distractions
4) Seeing better creations makes me feel bad about my garbage
5) I dislike Mugen
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#11  October 06, 2014, 08:55:19 am
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Am not a Mugen creator but when it comes to building up projects and cancelling them its mostly because I thought in a too big scale. I bet many of you know that scenario too when someone here opens a full-game thread and plans to have like 30 characters in his project while it can take years already to build up a good mugen game alone with 6 or 8 characters I bet.

I made that mistake too with a couple of websites which I had to cancel after seeing that the projects would be so big that it would take a very long time to make them work.
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#12  October 06, 2014, 09:00:25 am
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1)Laziness
2)Hard to get into the mood
3)Peers aren't inspirational enough! >:(
4)A fourth thing
5)Work takes up too much time
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#13  October 06, 2014, 09:02:37 am
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1-Lazyness.
2-Boredoom.
3-Hentai.
4-Need to get lost and drunk atleast 2 weekends per month and have sum fun with friends.
5-Iam sleeping.
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#14  October 06, 2014, 09:21:08 am
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1.Not having time to finish that early
2.Busy with other projects
3.School
4.House jobs
5.Getting tired from spriting

This reason I said for my long planed game which it don't have scenario yet...
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#15  October 06, 2014, 09:59:27 am
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#16  October 06, 2014, 10:02:37 am
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1) 'too tired, probably do this tomorrow'
2) 'well that thing i coded didn't work, i don't feel like it anymore'
3) 'i feel like just taking beavis for an arcade run again, tbh'
4) 'i don't even know if i could code THAT....'
5) 'maybe mass or NGI can come out of nowhere and do this character for me instead'
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#17  October 06, 2014, 10:59:15 am
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  • Work.  For a good while I was working 56 hours a week, now I work 50 which is better, but it is all at my home computer, so mugen feels like actual work a lot of the time. 
  • Vindictus, for a long time, but I'm mostly quit (for the third time).  I slipped up back in June/July.   :uhoh:
  • Wifey, but in a good way.  We're currently playing through Hyrule Warriors together.   :sweetheart:
  • My gaming backlog
  • Project "senioritis" I guess is the best word.  I'll get to the end of something and stop working on it.  Often because a new random idea came into my head that is now the best one ever, just like the last one used to be. 
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#18  October 06, 2014, 12:04:46 pm
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laziness
demotivation
distractions (i blame the ADD, seriously)
work

I'll get to the end of something and stop working on it.  Often because a new random idea came into my head that is now the best one ever, just like the last one used to be.
^This is my biggest problem.

Get a surge of ideas and motivation, then it slows down a little, i get a new idea for something else, now that takes a higher priority and it takes forever to go back to the old project.
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#19  October 06, 2014, 12:15:34 pm
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1. College
2. My incurable hatred towards math
3. Inability to run Photoshop on this stupid laptop
4. Lack of ideas, and when you get ideas, it turned into lack of resources
5. Arguments with partner

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#20  October 06, 2014, 01:16:41 pm
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1.) I don't get paid for the work I do.
2.) I get pissed off because I don't get paid for the work I do.
3.) Laziness due to not being paid for the work I do.
4.) Angriness at mugen for pissing me off sometimes more than my job... which I get paid to do.
5.) More interesting things come up, making me get side-tracked from mugen.

To be perfectly honest though, I'd rather make characters and work on NZCR all day than have to deal with the idiots I have to work with...

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