JUST PUTTING THOUGHTS TO ELECTRONIC PAPER

I'm really just rambling here, but...

I tend to browse the forums a lot, purchase a product from time to time (TGE, TGEA, TGB, and some content packs, etc), get excited about a posted resource, then never actually get anything done. Its not that I would not like to, its just that I tend to get sidetracked by playing games instead of actually making any. And the games I get sidetracked by are things like Gothic 3, Oblivion, and so on...you know, 100+ hours games. And with games like that, its hard to come back to after you have left it for a while (refamilarizing yourself with the world, your place in it, and what the heck you were supposed to do next), so I tend to obsess with it until it is complete. As of late, I have started toying with some code again. Ultimately, I would like to put together some sort of Zelda-style adventure game, and there are many resources I need to implement and change in order to get to that point. I know that's a tall order for a single person, but since I am really only doing this as a hobby, I don't have a time-restriction, which may be part of the problem. With no deadline, it is sometimes difficult to keep things moving forward. Kind of like the games I mentioned above; I could develop for a while, then stop and come back, but then there is that refamiliarization curve again.

I really enjoy the Zelda-style games, but there is a distinct absence of them on the PC. At least there is for those types of games that enjoy the breadth of story and humor the Zelda games invoke.

I started last night with the updated SQLite resource, which I figure would be good for save games, and have already encountered some issues. I seem to always encounter things that no one else has any issues with...lucky me. I got it implemented and it compiles and TGE runs, but I can't create a database, so I think I will set it aside for the time being and maybe the answer will come to me. That philosophy acutally works more often for me that I would expect.