Here's a better question. Why do you give a flying fuck what anyone thinks?

Just with the recent feedback of how people label me as a wannabe dev after everything I have learned so far, I feel like what's the point of continuing if this crowd is going to keep throwing me under the same label?

Sometimes I just wonder if I should continue, let alone continue to learn anything new a this point in the world of game development. I'm not going to stop anytime soon, but I wouldn't call myself a wannabe, I'd say I'm intermediate at best.

I don't get the hate honestly. Yeah they're just Unity projects (that personally I find unfinished and sucky) I never stated that I make AAA games, and I have yet to work on a AAA project for the masses.

He was so bad I was tempted to throw my entire portfolio in the bin and just get rid of my games and consoles.

I feel like I'm in a slightly similar state now with video games, but it's more community orientated than anything.

I want to hear your thoughts should I continue to learn and practice game development, or should I just call it quits?

Quote from: Decimator Omega on March 16, 2015, 02:01:03 PM

Quote from: aTALLmidget on March 16, 2015, 01:56:18 PM

Here's a better question. Why do you give a flying fuck what anyone thinks?

Because without constructive criticism you can't get better?

Actually, that's a load of shit.

I'll say this. I've been writing stories on my own for about three years now. When I started, all the way up to now, I never received help. I never once, had anybody run through what I wrote and spellcheck. Never once had anybody check for redundant, repeating words, which is an incredibly hard thing to curb by yourself.

I never once had anybody sit down and talk to me about a mistake I made. And while I could be somewhat prideful and say that I am a good writer of stories, I made mistakes. Because from there to now, I've changed. Learned and grown. And I did it all myself, on my own.

Now, I know that writing, isn't comparable to game development. But the principle concept of "constructive criticism" is exactly the same.

Bottom line is this.

Nobody's going to fucking help you. And that's the truth. And, I know that doesn't seem very optomistic regarding your question. But I'll ask you a question of my own.

Did I let the fact that nobody out there wanted, or did help me with my writing stop me?

Did I let the fact that my writing, being what it was, would probably never receive much in the way of recognition, or praise, and only enjoyed by a small select group of people stop me?

Did I let the fact, that I was the only one writing my stories, ever stop me?

No.

Your number one rule, should always be this.

You do what you want to. You work on what you want to. You make what you want to. And you learn, at your own pace. The more you work, and study, the more you'll learn over time. And the sole reason you do it, is for your own enjoyment.

Every other person, whether they're there, or they aren't, are just simply there for the ride. If they don't like your ride, they can get the fuck off it. If they like your ride, then fantastic, good for them. If they want possibly to suggest things to help make your ride better, then fuck, let them.

But never ask them.

You are the performer, and they are the audience no matter how big or how small. As a creator of anything, you should only be doing what you do for yourself. You should create, because you love to create.

People liking and enjoying what you make, or taking any time to comment and help you, are just icing on the cake. But they aren't necessary.

dude, there's no money in video game development (if that's what you're after), and no one will care about the games you make if it's a hobby unless they're good (they probably will never be), so you're gonna have to learn to be content with what you create regardless of what others think of it if you really want to do this

You know, if everybody believed in your dream it wouldn't be your dream.

Quote from: Decimator Omega on March 16, 2015, 03:51:48 PM

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on March 16, 2015, 03:46:16 PM

Knowing how to program and do art =/= game design.

Everyone gets shit on this website. We're the most disfunctional community I've ever been a part of.

I have prototypes if you want to see them.

Do you happen to have design documents for them?

No.

I've spent the last 2-3 years programming the most mediocre shit in the world, never being anywhere near good enough to relate my stuff to that of a "real" developer.  Only until these last few months has everything I've learned in my time of reading APIs, textbooks on AI, game engine architecture, etc... started to come together.

A year ago, I could make a fairly buggy flash game with nothing impressive.  Now, I'm working with networked multiplayer games over cloud servers in Unity/Unreal, procedurally generated models + terrain, custom lighting shaders, etc... in a custom game engine using DirectX and OpenGL.  You just got to keep at it, because it picks up if you find something interesting.

Once again: you're really letting people on this forum get to you too much, dude.  Also, calling you a mediocre game dev isn't constructive criticism: the industry would be dead if devs quit every time kids on forums said "this sucks".

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on March 16, 2015, 03:46:16 PM

Knowing how to program and do art =/= game design.

Everyone gets shit on this website. We're the most disfunctional community I've ever been a part of.

I've yet to be shat upon. I'm glorious.