Hello everyone,

my progress in my game has gone quite well, but recently I don't have the motivation anymore to continue my project. I'm doing it all alone and ran out of ideas to flesh out the concept. I ever wanted to create a game which grasps the core concept (primary: exploration, secondary: combat) of my favourite game (Zelda: The wind waker) and puts it into a small platformer.

I struggle with little things like the question which programming style fits best (CES or OOP) or how to do certain things like collision detection best, although I already got them working.

Maybe the project is just to big for me, maybe I just need a little idea to make my game more fun, maybe I should even drop the project and start off with a smaller game, maybe I just hit 'the wall'. I don't know.

Hopefully you can give me some feedback or opinions on what to do.

I attached a screenshot of my game.

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Sincerely,

Strupf

You can read some articles about game programming and look at source code of similar games.

What do you mean by CES? How you programm highly depends on your programming language

(some don't support OOP and some don't support the functional paradigm) and your own

preferences so you might want to give additional information on which language you are

using and what you want to do.

One big motivator for me always is the community feedback. So maybe try to involve more people

in the project.

Thanks for all the replies!

I think I'm just going to get a break for some days of the project to get some new inspiration from outside.

In my opinion, you shouldn't worry to much about the coding style or the "perfect" collision detection too much. The most important thing is to make a game, not to find the perfect architecture (that remind me of this thread, you seem to suffer from the same issue as the OP).

Thanks for reminding me, that's a thing you easily forget. I'll come to my game back later to decorate it with some new stuff. I really worried too much about the egine of the game instead of gameplay.

Sincerely,

Strupf