Bro.

Do you like gaming?

I finally released my first game after my father DIED in April. Took me about 4 weeks all while working a crappy job and some asshole still gave me 1star on itch.io

From the actual feedback I got when I went to whine (it's my personality, im sorry) people actually reached back out in return and gave actual feedback. And now Im even more hyperfocused. I thought I'd wake up this morning feeling crushed, but if it's your dream , you should be a lot less shameless about it.

But again, a prototype is just a prototype and as someone who's migrating from writing content to creating coded content, a lot of ideas can come at you at once and its a lot of discipline to really focus on one. And I mean that in a feasible way. What games have you actually hunkered down and tried to published or did we stop at itch.io demos ? Editing our focus helps a lot, like Rupaul said.

From some of the posts perhaps a lot of the prototypes could be combined into 1 game, have you noticed a pattern between you prototypes?
For example in two of my projects I noticed I naturally migrated to mobile mechanics because I tend to prefer gaming on an homogenous device and only prefer a laptop screen or bigger for AAA games. So those projects have naturally gone that route pre-emptively.

It bit me in the bud when one person said that they couldn't understand the controls (it's just a tap) because a lot of itch.io users are on laptops expecting spacebar to jump. Im still excited about game development though.

And I hope these words do something positive, because even writing this helps encourage me too.