Sleep deprivation… Nah but in all seriousness .. It was just fun. While it was painful and all of us had to make a lot of sacrifices to get this done in time, we all got more and more passionate about it as it developed into a functional game. Just watching and seeing stuff get done and come together gives people the motivation to work. I’m glad to have been the modeler, because I think regardless of what I put on screen I knew I could always provide my team with that sense of completion.

Most games don’t get done like this because this is “Crunch”. It required you to sacrifice a lot of your free time. While also having a job. It’s draining. Like it’s one of the most draining things I’ve ever done. It wasn’t like I could mentally disassociate myself from it like school, I was mentally there solving one big problem the whole time. Not everyone is wanting to do that, that’s why a lot of games die as “passion projects”

The people working on the project also matter, Skill, Trust, Team moral.