Can you ellaborate further on your game? It bears some resemblance to HyperBlade (back in the last century), but with much less blood

thanks for the post, i really appreciated it, and this area is something that i have thought a lot about as well. i too have dozens of projects, many barely started, and a small handful of recurrent (reentrant?) ones that i’ve been working on for years. i used to feel bad about bouncing around between them or abandoning them, in the sense of “finish what you start”. but after awhile i realized that for me, following inspiration or curiosity is a better path than sticking to an adage. and what’s wrong with pushing ten projects forward one unit instead of one project forward ten units? and i noticed the “time filter” effect as well — that some ideas have legs and that that quality may only be revealed after some time has elapsed. the latest project i’ve begun incubating is a continuation of something i started on the c64 in high school in ‘88! the weirdness of doing that and the nostalgia appeal to me, and the original kernel of inspiration still speaks to me, and i never got it as far along as i had hoped so…we’ll see if it has legs.

i have observed two pitfalls with this approach however. one is that i can easily spend A LOT of time daydreaming/designing/planning/scenario-building and not really producing anything, which is okay, because i don’t want to be attached to the idea that i have to produce something, but i actually do want to produce something sometimes, and so there is a balance to strike. second, when other people are involved, i have to be really wary about committing my time, since there is never enough of it to do all of the things that it would be cool to do. i’ve learned the latter the hard way, by failing to deliver on commitments. it doesn’t feel good, and i hope not to do it again!

anyway, thanks for starting the conversation and keep up the good work.

adam