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Feeling Rushed
6 years ago
Hello everyone,
Lately I’ve been feeling some things, and I figured I’d write a journal about it to get it off my chest. For a while now I’ve been feeling more and more like I’m rushed, like I must hurry up and finish things, less I lose the interest of my watchers or other people. Let me explain:
I’ve been working on the Viali now for almost 10 months, and I’ve created their core concept and drawn a lot of art for them. A few months back in their development I was drawing and releasing said drawings about twice or three times a month. As time has gone on, however, life has snuck in - and so have other interests of mine - and I tend to release one drawing a month. Recently, in contrast to how I was drawing before, I feel like I’m rushed to make another drawing, like I’m slacking.
Not to mention I also have other species that I created long before the Viali that I want to show to the public for the first time, I’ve just been hesitating because I don’t want to make it seem like I’m putting the Viali aside and suddenly bringing to the surface these other species (not that it would make much of a difference I don’t think, but I digress), as well as that I’m quite shy about publicizing these other species of mine, since I hold them pretty close to my heart.
I suppose the thoughts that have been on my mind about feeling rushed, releasing new (/ old) species, and feeling obligated to adhere to a schedule all kind of stem from experiences in the past where I felt like it’s a case of ‘use it or lose it’. If you’ve had that feeling where you feel obligated to rush and create or share your next thing, when in reality you’re not obligated, I’d like to know how you dealt with it or coped. I’m just currently unsure if these thoughts of mine have any real foundation to them, or if I should just not worry about uploading on a schedule, release these other species, and just draw when I draw.
But, that’s enough monologuing for now - I’d like to thank you for reading this, and if you’re a watcher, thank you for following me. <3
-Ryuvi the Viali
Lately I’ve been feeling some things, and I figured I’d write a journal about it to get it off my chest. For a while now I’ve been feeling more and more like I’m rushed, like I must hurry up and finish things, less I lose the interest of my watchers or other people. Let me explain:
I’ve been working on the Viali now for almost 10 months, and I’ve created their core concept and drawn a lot of art for them. A few months back in their development I was drawing and releasing said drawings about twice or three times a month. As time has gone on, however, life has snuck in - and so have other interests of mine - and I tend to release one drawing a month. Recently, in contrast to how I was drawing before, I feel like I’m rushed to make another drawing, like I’m slacking.
Not to mention I also have other species that I created long before the Viali that I want to show to the public for the first time, I’ve just been hesitating because I don’t want to make it seem like I’m putting the Viali aside and suddenly bringing to the surface these other species (not that it would make much of a difference I don’t think, but I digress), as well as that I’m quite shy about publicizing these other species of mine, since I hold them pretty close to my heart.
I suppose the thoughts that have been on my mind about feeling rushed, releasing new (/ old) species, and feeling obligated to adhere to a schedule all kind of stem from experiences in the past where I felt like it’s a case of ‘use it or lose it’. If you’ve had that feeling where you feel obligated to rush and create or share your next thing, when in reality you’re not obligated, I’d like to know how you dealt with it or coped. I’m just currently unsure if these thoughts of mine have any real foundation to them, or if I should just not worry about uploading on a schedule, release these other species, and just draw when I draw.
But, that’s enough monologuing for now - I’d like to thank you for reading this, and if you’re a watcher, thank you for following me. <3
-Ryuvi the Viali
Months ago I used to release multiple screenshots and videos a week and tried out many many things that might be interesting in the game. I started to slow down all of a sudden though due to real life demanding more and more of my time and I tried to keep up. Ultimately I wasn't able to create much, if any content any more and every time I looked at how many people are watching the project on the Game Turkey Community Server I panicked a bit because I felt I was letting them down.
What kind of helped me is reviewing what I've done so far and (since I am not doing game dev alone) delegating some tasks to other team members. I guess this isn't an option if you're solo'ing things tho, I know, but offloading work is just one part anyways.
The other thing I did was check what people's *actual* demands are. Do they ask for a beta every day? No. Is the number of people on the server decreasing because people think the project is dead? Neither that.
People were actually more patient than I thought - the actual "impatient fan" was actually me because I kept repeating myself like a broken record when I urged myself to do something. Another person kind of confirmed that I was putting myself under too much pressure.
In the end I think I just underestimated how long people are willing to wait for the next news because what you're doing is very exciting to them. I'm not saying that one should take things too slow but I guess if it takes a year longer to release something that's totally fine as long as it's of high quality.
I'm not 100% "cured" of course but I think that's fine. It just means that this project really means a lot to me. If I would not be worried and would start forgetting about it, well, that would be the beginning of the end I guess.
I hope this makes some sense ^^"
I'm looking forward to "meeting" the species btw. Just don't rush anything. Release some information when your belly gives you that okay feeling (: And if you want to wait some more then wait. Good things needa "mature" sometimes.