oh my, noxia.... that project was rather promising, there were many talented people in my team. but one after another decided not to show up anymore. it's not like i'd mind if they had no time to work on our project and if they told me so, but they preferred to... well, to vanish. which sucked. the only teammate remaining was and still is kai. we're now working on a new project, but we don't want to announce it till it's in alpha state. we don't want it to become a second duke nukem forever

i read alot of data loss here. dont you people have external HDDs or maybe a second partition of your HDD (drive D for example?) if so, how can you lose all your stuff?

I have two Partitions , but if you stupid like me you can lost your Files too !
Only klick on the Folder, press DEL (ENTF) and Enter...
This happend last Year with all my Models / Maps / Scripts and so on...
Stupid mistake... If i remeber right, 1 to 2 GB Data lost !
I have only 4 finished Projects... Snake clone / Sphere / Asteroid Defender / Alarm Clock...
The other 1000000 Projects are sleeping on my HDD (Part D:\ )

cYa Sebastian

I've always been a good story teller and artist every since i was little.So when a i was younger around ten i would make like a new game every week simply because i got bored of the old story line or the charecters.Back then, i would make text-based RPG's with bloodshed c++,i would make 2d games with gamemaker, and i would make 3D games with darkbasic.I have so many old projects i can hardly remember any of them.But one that i worked on for awhile was a game about the sun firing the moon for being lazy, and the plot was to get the moon his job back(dumb game).

I have three active partitions, Controversion (C:), Disenchanted (D:) and Energy (E:)

Controversion has all my software and some project files, media and stuff like that
Disenchanted has backups, downloads, and project files
Energy has windows and only windows related stuff

I also have an Linux/Lockdown (L:) partition that currently holds it's place as an Linux partition, which I will later turn into an entirely Backup-based drive.

I had all these along I lost alot of stuff. It happened when I accidentally forgot to back up some (read almost all) project folders.

i might be the least successful here. i started a project 4 years ago, finished and redid it 7 times, could never get it to run smoothly enough(too many levels and sub-levels, horrible gui, etc.), so i decided to scrap it until i can get back to it someday,lol. and now i am working on another game that i am trying to finish, running into the same gui issue and coding issues,lol. i am a jewel, but i refuse to give up!

Bah, since forever i'm stuck on my project - since 2004. I started with Multimedia Fusion as a 2d game in early 2000, ported it to 3d gamestudio (A4 or A5 , i think, until the 'NEW' windows ME started to crash gamestudio), then i ported it back to MMF, then i tried TORQUE, then i put it on 2D again in RPG MAKER (yes, despair, but it actually became quite good looking!), then i'm back to 3d gamestudio... WITH A VENGANCE!!
That said, much of the code needs re-doing, but thanks to the new machine specs we have today i can actually do a nice artwork on the game, wich will prove unvaluable for the NEW prototype.

Frozen while we ( my team and i ) work at Pokémon Journey

If we really talk about past projects there are only three of them which I would really like to finish some time:

- Billies wish
- Stonewall Penitentiary
- Razor for my Valentine

"Billies Wish" is a platformer about a crazy staring girl in a weird comic world where big super worms are jumping all over the place. Billies goal is to get out of there. The game in its state is about 6 years old and I wonder why I decided to let her collect coins to finish a level ^^.

Stonewall Penitentiary is not actually a game of mine, its from CBSection31 (link). It is sort of a horror psycho adventure settled in a prison. I wrote all puzzles, a facial expressions engine and a lipsyncing plugin. I really would like to see it released, I dunno if it will ever be.. it is cool, actually! Maybe I release the facial and lipsync stuff seperately one day.

Razor for my Valentine is a project for itself. I guess, you all know it... I began coding it 6 weeks before St. Valentine in 2008 and wanted to just make a small minigame. I had big plans with it. One month ago I wrote and scribbled a lot of stuff what to do when I begin re-doing it. It was not a lack motivation.. it was a very bad combination of a lack of time, lots of performance issues and the 100 lines contest for which I spent from the day of the announcement 100% development time. The documents and scribblings were again wayyyy to big. Maybe I should start thinking small as I tell most people to do so ;-)

Currently I am working again 100% in my free time on a project for university (which I can't tell you right now for legal reasons) and I think it is done in January. I hope I can switch back into fully loaded gamedev mode early in 2010 .. I wish I could have done this weeks ago (I was very motivated after releasing my new portfolio!).

Though, Spike told me that I can do whatever I want and that was very uplifting. I have around 6 other ides in my head and maybe I'll give one of those a shot before I let the fairy murder begin :-)

One new in development. (2d cardgame)
One revived, in development. (2d pixelart platformer)
Two or three full releases, nothing nameworthy. (2d Bunny defender, 2d gravball, colorconversion dll, ...)
Three alpha releases, then (for the time being) abandoned. (2d steampunk fortress defender, 3d cubeyland, lite-c sql dll)
Five or six humming stationary, waiting to be picked up or get abandoned. (2d towerdefence, gtk+ dll, ...)
Close to a hundred abandoned. (...)