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If I waited until it was fully ready in my head I'd probably have wasted another year on stuff no one cares about but me. Though thankfully I find the final push to be the part where I struggle with motivation the least. Once I'm over the hump and am just polishing an already finished playable game I'm super motivated because I'm not worried how long it will take to finish.
You have to set a very clear place where you want to be in terms of polish and absolutely stick to that. You have to get good at identifying where polish will make a difference and where you're getting, as Richard put it perfectly, diminishing returns. There's no greater motivation at that stage of a project than finally being able to leave it alone, so that's what usually causes the sprint to the finish! One thing that is enormously important is to give yourself time to recharge when doing that push: if you have done several 7-day weeks in a row you absolutely need to give yourself an entire weekend off where you don't touch a computer or think about the project at all.
We just shipped our newest game, Finger Derpy for iOS so this is pretty fresh for me. Of course all the key features are in, all the bugs are out. So, you're ready to send it out. Now give it a month: Walk away, don't play it for a few days, then start playing it all the way through like a regular person.
Slowly over time, plenty of little nigglies will come out that need fixing. After all those are fixed, it's ready. To Do lists for sanity, broken up along days for scheduling. Oh and get some exercise too. Out of the 5 games I have worked on, I have only "shipped" one.
My first game jam game, "the universe within My 2nd game Glorious Ending Cinematic is sitting on the internet somewhere and failed to meet the MolyJam deadline because we had some must dos in order to feel comfortable uploading it. Still have months to go. I'm looking forward to launching it to backers to get a lot of community feedback.
I could give some ideas about the final push for a procedurally generated game like Magic Shot to complement the other excellent points already made here.
The final push is for me about building a process to « test » the robustness of the procedure in every possible situation. It means you have to create some model to generate the buggy situations. So I made 2, screenshots of the game, and browsed them one by one. We are actually releasing our fifth mobile game Tiltagon this Thursday. For us the game is "ready" when it has all the features and polish that would keep the player playing for more than once.
Of course the game has to be also as bug-free as possible but more importantly you have to be prepared to react and update the game asap if problems or bugs are spotted. Todo lists are a must. And the tasks have to be broken down to so small that you can complete them on a regular basis, preferably every day.
Marking tasks as completed feels awesome and gives that little push to keep going. Sleep, fresh air and spending some time with the family is also important.
For me, it seemed like I could've kept working on my game forever. It's pretty hard to stop polishing, because as the dude who has spent the most time with the game, I see all its flaws and its potential to be "even better". Basically, decide what the minimum amount of things are your game needs to be "complete", get there, and release. You can always come back after the release and add more and make the game "even better", but if you never release then it's not a game; a game is not a game if nobody is playing.
The way I cope is by shutting off the part of my brain that looks for that visible progress and, instead, I create a Google Docs to-do list that I can knock out tasks from. Watching that list of boring to-dos get shorter feels goooood. But really, I just listen to this on repeat until the game comes out. Like any piece of artwork, a game is never finished - you just stop working on it. This is even truer with the trend of developers continuously updating their games with new content and features after release.
So the question is: when are you ready to release? You should release your game when you are proud to tell people that you made it and when you know that players will engage with the core part of the experience in the way that you wanted them to. You know you've got this right when someone who is testing your game can't stop playing it. As for motivation, it's the same problem as with any stage of the project.
Except that now you can get excited to share what you've made with others! As many here has already mentioned, you can always do more work on a game. You can always add a little shine to the polish.
Obviously there has to be a point where you need to stop and decide that the game is ready for release. I usually work with milestones to make this doable. In my case, if I don't have a deadline I'll spend way to much time tinkering with details that maybe 0. I think it's important to make sure that the milestones aren't just arbitrary, though.
It's easy to just push a milestone date that doesn't need to align with a certain date. For an example, I think it's good to put deadlines close to expos, so that we're forced to work with that date if we want the work done in the milestone to be in the version we send to the expo.
Of course, you'll need to be able to plan and especially prioritize your tasks if you work with strict deadlines. Otherwise you'll end up crunching, which is less than ideal. As for motivation, I think in general good feedback from players is a great way to cheer you and your team up.
These range from testers to press to expo goers. Seeing people enjoy your game always make it feel worth while. Also, if members of your team can't be present at expos or testing-days, be sure to tell them if something they've made got good feedback So tell the composer if the music was well liked, tell an artist if a model they made looked good to the players etc. It's a good way to make sure your team feels appreciated, which in and out of itself is a good motivator.
I delayed SwapQuest many times, as whenever the next release date approached I didn't feel the game represented the vision I had in mind completely. Of course there were also many feature and todo lists that gave an indicator on how far I am in development. But in the end I think only a very polished experience will give you the satisfaction you want after releasing a game, so reserve some weeks or even months for that. I keep myself motivated during that time by having check lists with small tasks on them.
The more often I can tick off something, the better. Tom Faber, Financial Times. Alice Bell, Rock Paper Shotgun. Todd Martens, LA Times. David Smith, Kotaku Australia.
Rachel Kaser, VentureBeat. Edmond Tran, GamesHub.
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