GradualGames wrote:
Looking at the variety of posts you've made recently, my feeling is you need to focus your attention on something. You're all over the place, asking about many non-trivial things: game disassemblies, porting from NES to GBC, porting from DS to NES, Gensis, SNES..... you appear to be suffering from what I like to call "option paralysis."
Before I got into NES development, I, too, knew I wanted to do SOMETHING with programming aside from my job, likely game related, but what to do? For some people it might be the toughest moment in your hobby career. For me, I just wrote down all the ideas I had and listed pros and cons as to which one would make me the happiest to actually work on. Then, I'd just pick ONE of those projects and see them through to completion. I made sure to start with small introductory projects.
Not sure if that helps, but, I think if you try it (writing down a list of project ideas, then listing pros and cons as to which will bring you the most happiness to both work on and complete) and then focus really hard on achieving one goal at a time, you'll be very happy with the results long term. Speaking for myself, it resulted in enough exposure to the discipline of making NES games that I don't think I'm ever gonna stop.
Thanks... I'm trying to come up with a good project. I have ADHD and Aspergers so sometimes I try to do too many things at once. I tend to over work myself this way. You seem to have a good point though. Sometimes I forget to just pick one project. Sometimes I have so many things in my head I forget to do them instead of just planning them. Sorry...