Questions for experienced developers: 1. Does it ever end? 2. How do you stay positive? 3. How/When do you decide that it's easier to just take what you've learned and start from scratch?
I'm not experienced developer, but here it goes: 1. I guess no. I think it's just same as life routine, it just goes on and on. 2. I try to motivate myself. Think of something positive, set a goal for yourself. F.e. to sell your game and get good income (or at least get audience attention, for your next projects). Everytime I start losing motivation, or start loosing my belief in my project, I just look at those games which are sold on steam, it helps 3. This question is not clear enough for me. But maybe you meant that situation, when you rewrite your project (start from scratch?) over and over again, as the whole progress goes on and you find better/faster/easier ways to implement all that you've already done. My main problem on this one is, that as the project grows up, it becomes more spaghetti like (I guess I've read about this in AUM or MANUAL) and it's really hard to keep things organized. So there are some points of development, when I just stop and rewrite everything on the paper, then I 'copy&paste' those parts of the project, which shouldn't be changed into new .c files, and after that I just rewrite the rest as I drafted it on the papers. It happened already twice with my small 8 bit shooter game So far I'm happy with results, and it seems to be very stable right now.
