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I have an incomplete game for a gamejam, what next?
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tl;dr, dunkey bigmode gamejam didn't pan out, should I finish the game or just keep it pushing?

I'm not good at making video games but I recognize the only way to get good at something is to practice. I had HUGE ambitions for something I thought was doable... it's doable, just not for me right now. I'm proud of how far I've come, but I'm not proud of how much time it takes me to even crap out a single mediocre point and click shooter. Not to be too hard on myself, I can accept that I couldn't get a game into this jam; I'm going through some stuff, but still.

4ish hours until I fully accept that I can't get anything in to the game jam, my beautiful and lustrous game creation career can't kick off with a cute little indie darling about soup. I did not truly want to make the game I currently haven't even finished, is it worth finishing?

In general, I'm trying to turn my entire life around and I figured that this and a few other ambitious projects would magically land me on a career path that I have always coveted. But I am always low on energy due to mental health stuff, so it's hard to follow through on things I want to do and think about doing all of the time. I also have a non-functional machine learning project I meant to finish up, but haha oh well.

So with that all in mind, is it worth finishing up a game that is a truncated version of a much more ambitious goal so that I can have the experience of completing a game? Or should I just focus on something I actually like, like a game I've always wanted to make. I feel like I'm running out of time because the amount of time I feel like I can actually spend on this is getting smaller and smaller.

And if you could throw in a few words of encouragement even though I failed, I'd appreciate it.

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