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One week left until The Blessed Fool is released. I'm so glad I finally finished this project — it took me 2 years. Two feelings are boiling inside me: joy and shame. Below is a short story of how these two years went, and why shame outweighs joy in me🧵 #pixelart #gamedev #gaming #indiegame

While the artist drew, I tried to learn Godot. It went terribly. At best I'd reach the inventory system, and that wore me out completely. I started looking for a programmer to save time, while working on it myself. I restarted the project 25-30 times — the chaos I made was impossible to escape.

Finding programmers was the most interesting part — there were four. #1 vanished right away, #2 did ~20% and vanished, #3 built 3 systems and vanished. #4 was the most brutal — he did almost everything, then honestly said he couldn't continue, too busy. That's when I lost faith in programmers.

From then on I decided to do everything myself and started the Godot project again. You're probably wondering why not just finish the almost-done project. Because back then I still couldn't tell a method from a class. To make sure I'd finish, I found a mentor who helped a lot early on.