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How do you not forget a game when you have a bird-brain?

The Big Learning Game
A downloadable game

The last 7 days have been busy with IRL things. Even though the weather cooled down and I could get on my main I had an entirely different project to work on there. Plus I could do that magical thing known as "TOUCH GRASS" without bursting into flames!

I haven't touched the Big Harold Game at all in almost two weeks. This is a problem.

I have a terrible problem. A horrible, no good problem. It's a very frustrating problem. 

I get excited about a project and go all in for a while, then, when I *CAN'T* work on it I loose steam and stop caring as much about the project. Then if I can't recapture the excitement I tend to forget abut the project entirely.

I know that about my self, so that's partly WHY I decided to write these devlogs. Once a week I had to remind my self that something I've been dreaming of doing for years now is within my skill set: A little complete RPG.

But here, after the first crushing heat wave has passed, and with so much to catch up on that isn't game making, I'm loosing that drive I had before. I do not want to let that happen this time. The Devlogs are helping, but over the last week I've thought more about what I wanted to say in this log than the game.

I do have the materials to make a paper Game Design Document, and I think I will be starting that tomorrow, but I don't know if that alone will be enough.

So what d you guys do when that inner spark, if you will, starts to sputter out early? How do you keep it kindled?
I know Harold wouldn't give up, so I can't either, but it's hard sometimes to keep the dream alive!

~Me

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