Hey there.

There was no post here for almost two months now. Did I have a lot on my head? Maybe, a bit. Were there some urgent matters I needed to take care of? Well, there are always some. But none of these was THE problem. In fact, there is only one issue here – motivation.

It is said that it’s the main enemy of every independent developer, especially those, who work alone. Because if you don’t have a publisher expecting fruits of your labour, if you don’t work with a team, that impatiently waits for you to finally finish your part, so the project can be moved to another level, if the only people who know about your game are your closest friends and few random people on the internet, there is little or none to motivate you to sit down on your ass and get down to work.

The only thing that’s left is passion. And it has a lot of faces.

One may be passionate about work itself, which gives purpose to his everyday life. The other may be passionate about development, loving the process of making games so much that he feels happiness every time he opens his game editor. Another one may be passionate about those little victories you achieve and loves showing his brand new level or quest to his friends or internet community.

Every approach is good if only it enables you to push your game forward. But I’m passionate about something a little bit different – the game itself. I grow the image of it in my head just like a plant. I nourish it with different ideas, spent some free time thinking how to make it better, how it will look like in few months. And this is dangerous, because it does not give straightforward motivation to get down to work on it. Dreams look better than the reality. The game always looks best inside the designer’s head. It’s painful to watch your ideas, which looked so brilliant in your mind, to slowly make their way to the cruel world, deformed by the imperfect tools you have and your own mediocre abilities.

But I know that the only way Tap Ten Green Tiles will come to existence is by my own hands. And this thought will hopefully keep me motivated throught the process.

Wish you all to have a great motivation in your endeavours – as it’s the most important thing to accomplish your goals.

See you in the next post.