I had it. But when I started to join many jams and contests with very hard deadline I learned to focus.
What do I want to express and what are the bullet moments?
Then write those and dont go any other point until the bullet points are done.
That core is the minimum playable game that could have sense on their own. It is a story with all the requisites then in the second run of writing add the sparkles and spices.
What I know for certain is that there will be roller skates.
Finally, finally, my idiot brain pays off. My empty-headed tomfoolery has at last saved the day.
Guess who has two thumbs and just remembered The Month of September exists? Guess who just realized the short IF they plotted to be finished in two months now has a whole extra thirty days? This is the best day of my life. Maybe I will make that slightly longer character creator.
Ah, I thought you were just planning to get the first draft done in two months, to have the last month for testing and editing.
That’s what I’m hoping to do myself.
Today I will put Spanish techno pop or Synth wave Azul y Negro. This was number one in UK and was used in studio 54. One of first groups to recorded a cd and for me one of most futuristic sounded groups.
Me estoy volviendo loco I am going crazy
I have written some parts for my Jam but then I came across the whole topic about using Ai for writing and let me ask if Ai assistance is accepted for the Jam.
I’m using Grammarly and Hemingway as a spelling, grammar checker because my English is horrifying. I also use an online Merriam Dictionary to check English words and I do abuse the Synonym and Antonym. And lastly, I use a Translator.
So, @poison_mara will it be okay to use Ai assistance or not? I just really need to know because I can drop out if it’s not allowed.
No, it is also in the rules not Ai assistance of any kind. Spell check is okay always you don’t use any of the creation of text via ai than many have…
Trust more in yourself. I know you can do it by yourself you don’t need any machine you are better than all the Ai in universe because you can create and you have real emotions
Oh, okay. Um, if it is a clear rule then in my good conscience I have to withdraw. Why? Grammarly and Hemingway is still considered as an AI-powered writing assistant. Even if I use it for spelling and grammar checking, it is still Ai assistance. It can be used as a loop hole but nah, I don’t wanna be that person.
I could pass the game and it will have like a good sentence structure because what I wrote got revised / corrected by Ai even if I argued that I used it for grammar and spell checking. I still used Ai to better my written work, it’s not the raw thing anymore. So, in technicality I basically used Ai and the Jam is not allowing any use of any kind.
I have to withdraw for the Jam, I’m, so sorry. I wish everyone best of luck maybe I can try again in the future. But yeah, thank you everybody.
I will chat with you on private but let me say First thanks for being sincere and honest.
However, my advice is to make a game without assistance and tech stuff.
I will with others helping you to edit.
.You are a writer, you can end a game by yourself. Trust me I have an atrocious grammar. But that doesn’t stop me.
Trust me and let me helping you. I know you can
I think with the whole issue of using Ai, I think it’s better to be transparent on this. I’m not even sure if what I posted about me using Grammarly and Hemingway was a good move or not. All I can say is that I’m between a rock and a hard place.
I being honest with you it is I have used grammarly before all the Ai thing a lot years ago. As a grammar old school check was okay.
Nowadays I am not so sure because now is trying to change paragraphs and using IA.
I believe that trying to use online dictionaries, synonymous all that is far far more useful and helpful.
It needs a lot of work, yes. It needs sacrifice it really does. I know that. But it is the only way to really improve.
You showed me part of your text and is far better than what I write when I first started here.
Do you need working and writing to find your style yes. But THAT’S WHAT THE JAM IS FOR.
I am proud of you. And I will helping you and everyone to end a game. And improve to someday being able to publish
Oh, the curse of re-editing the first section ad nauseum before realizing you have to move on to make progress. This always ends up being the sticking point for me, remembering that I can always edit after the fact. I have GOT to force myself to continue!
I’ve never joined a jam before, but this looks like a lot of fun. I like the theme!
Welcome! And I am glad you like my game theme
I got real into it today y’all 
I got my whole outline done after work. It’s definitely going to be more “game” than “story” but I’m ok with that. I think it’s going to be so fun to work on.
Jams are for experiment with wild stuff. So be free go Disco wild
So, yesterday marked the day where my brain made the switch from ‘this is a cool enough story that I think people might like’ to ‘this is utter garbage, why am I even bothering?’.
Since I was so unmotivated, I decided not to push myself to write, and painted instead, and read a few IF WIPs.
Let’s see how today goes.
What’s been helping me is going, ‘you’ve got three months tops, buddy, this WILL be garbage. This will be a cesspool of unfinished thoughts and nonsensery no one in their right mind will want to read. Derivative schlock. Shoddily coded bizarrerie. But you gotta try. You gotta finish something. Maybe you’ll surprise yourself. Maybe you won’t, and you’ll get fail spectacularly and get put in the forum stocks of public humiliation, but that’s fine, too. You’re writing alongside a group of writers also giving it their all, so you probably WILL end up in the public humiliation stocks. And at least that’ll be funny if it happens, since this is a goofy WIP about 70s Disco.’
Maybe not the healthiest way to truck through this, but it’s been effective. Either way, it’s comforting knowing that a lot of us are in the same boat, feelings-wise.
I am currently discussing with my best friend on discord something very similar.
I am incapable of writing. I have the plan I have the story well defined. But I can’t write at all. I only achieve ten words in total.
Because fear to failure. I will have thousand of people more or less potentially looking to every single word to turn me into shredded mass of failure.
I am the hostess for good of for ill people take me as reference in this events.
With years I am dealing with them far bettet but in first editions I have very hard panic and anxiety attacks.
However, I passed them and The jams have been key in my mental health improvement.
With all of this what I am trying to say is you are not alone. And you are not worst that anyone else.
In this jam there is no score. The popular vote is just a Hey this stories are funny I will want more of these stuff only that.
So you like me we have to go day-to-day and end with a game that we could feel proud of saying I dealt with my fears.
I want to see your game. 