#shittykickflips

i always start small with my ambitions, and i AM able to make short + finished projects. but i can never seem to scale that experience very well when i try to make something bigger

this was a real challenge for me. the thing that helped me the most was just breaking everything down into smaller goals and milestones. the game was broken down into acts, and then the acts were broken down into areas and sequences, and then those had individual checklists of tasks to complete. the periods where i got the least done and burnt out the most frequently were the ones where i was jumping around a lot and letting myself feel daunted by the scope of the entire game, while my most productive periods were ones where i buckled down and focused on just one section at a time, mostly working in chronological order so that more and more of the game would be playable contiguously. getting feedback from friends (in my case, playtesting) after each of the major milestones was also a great motivator

Music: .​.​. Actually, Maybe You Should

By: Shitty Kickflips https://shittykickflips.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@shittykickflips shittykickflips.dog

Animation done by me, Luhman16 (Youtube link below the cut)

When you cringe you feel the the need to assert that you aren't like these fools, you feel the need to separate yourself from these people because you're scared of the vulnerability that they're showing. You're scared that you look like how these people look to you, you fear that the guy bringing a body pillow to Applebee's is like exactly what you look like.