What comes next is I will most likely start a smaller project that is more manageable. And you'll see updates about it here, I still have motivation to make games, just not on Trishot specifically. And to be quite honest I was ashamed of it, the game, the sound, the art. I just didn't like it

For some extra explanation. The breaking point for this was when I started getting severe anxiety over realising I hadn't been working on the game and not making progress, it simply wasn't healthy or maintainable.

While I'm not saying it will be gone forever, I'm suggesting that it may see no work for a good while. So far this year I clocked barely 30 hours in GameMaker which is barely any. I had ambitions and I overstepped my skill level and moreso my motivation.

*Dont kill you immediately I should say

And so I feel like my scope for this game outweighed my skill capacity

A lot of the older code has no comments and since I've taken a lot of breaks from working on this thing I'm having to decipher this code so there's this little devil on my shoulder telling me to to give up and try something smaller, because I am not an experienced gamemaker developer

And this is a big problem for me because I'm REALLY struggling for motivation at the moment, I dont want to just abandon the project because I have sunk a lot of time into it, but at the same time I feel like it just really wont turn out well, it technically "works" but theres a lot of issues

I think I've said this before, but I think a lot of large studios are getting too comfortable for making a poorly optimized games then relying on artificial frame boosters to make up for it.

Yeahhh ive done that before, curse us gamedevs for wanting fancy buttons

Sleep schedules are actually lies made up by the wealthy to stop us common folk from reaching maximum efficiency 🔥

Out of like some 15 ingame achievements only 2-5 work in practice