How To Become More Creative (Simple and Effective Game Dev Trick) 

good idea , i wonder why madbook didnt advice to do that!!

game jams = game idea machine!!

Exactly!

Sounds like something some smarmy yet suave Lightsaber wielding guy said to some 4 armed Cyborg guy. I think it was a long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away....perhaps. ;)

Yeah that's exactly right - there have been loads of studies into this topic and consumer behaviour (and I think it kind of applies to a lot of the stuff we do too)

@@Madbook I think part of it links into FOMO, the Fear of Missing Out. See, most people are more afraid of losing what they already have than motivated to get something they don't have. Look at all the people stuck in the same old, boring job, friendship or relationship. They are more worried about losing what they have. Also, with the unknown being so scary, it's much easier to stay with what you have than risk losing everything if you don't like the new thing and lose the old as a result. So, my idea is that when they have so many options, they want to try them all, or a lot of them. The problem is they can't seem to set a starting point because of the emotional overload of all the possibilities they have to choose from and their fear of the outcome possibly being terrible if they choose the wrong one. I'm sure there's more to it than that, yet that's what I've figured out so far.

This is a really interesting perspective on it - hadn't thought about it like that! I agree though, there is definitely a FOMO factor for a lot of people, and I think it can get worse when people spend a long time wondering if they made the 'correct' decision - when most of the time there isn't a right or wrong choice at all! 🤔

Thanks! While GameMaker technically supports some 3D, it isn't really inline with the engine's design goals - most of the advantages of using GameMaker and it's functions come from creating 2D games - as soon as you move to 3D you end up having to pick up a HUGE amount of slack yourself. Sprite stacking is very interesting and I intend to cover it in more detail in a future devlog, but I need to try and get a fair bit more dev work done before I fully show stuff off!