I decided it would be a good time to talk about momentum. \u00a0Or perhaps the total lack thereof. \u00a0I’m a self-confessed fragile ego, especially when it comes to coding. \u00a0I think this stems from a few issues I’ve got all at once, but the important ones are things like this:<\/p>\n
I’ve never really finished any sizable project. \u00a0For my own projects this makes a lot of sense. \u00a0I have no deadlines, no audience, and no real driving motivation to finish anything. \u00a0In other words, when I get sick of working on something, I just stop. \u00a0After all, I’m sick of it, it got hard, or it got boring, and I don’t have to keep working on it.<\/p>\n
One of the things I tend to enjoy is talking about my projects. \u00a0I suppose that’s a fair bit of the reason for this blog. \u00a0After a while, negativity or lack of interest or lack of feedback can result in loss of interest for me.<\/p>\n
One of the specific issues I’ve been having with QubeKwest is that I hit a massive amount of serialization work and got buried in it. \u00a0It’s really boring, and requires a lot of test code to make sure it’s working correctly. \u00a0You can’t very well serialize a block and not get back the same block again later without all sorts of things going wrong.<\/p>\n
Another issue is that I get fairly consistent feedback that I’m just wasting my time. \u00a0I realize this project is essentially a clone of an existing game at the end of the day, and that I could code it faster by using someone else’s game engine, but the truth is that I don’t care. \u00a0I’m doing this project for me, largely to give my brain something to do that requires education and devotion. \u00a0Thus, I really don’t want to just make plugins for Minecraft or use someone else’s game engine. \u00a0I want to learn how to write one and then, well, write one.<\/p>\n
Now, I did just claim that I don’t care. \u00a0Like five sentences ago in fact. \u00a0While that is mostly true, the other truth is that I care a little. \u00a0Enough in this case to have entirely stopped work on the project for about four months so far. \u00a0Sure, it’s been fun playing World of Warcraft a lot, but I’m starting to get itchy about not coding, so I’m not sure how much longer I can go before I can’t stand it anymore.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned, there may just be development updates again someday soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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