Re:The Forever Project
by TimSchumann on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:56AM
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Eh, personally I disagree with this. I hate having 'TODO' lists for stuff like this, I like keeping ideas/notes. Maybe it's just a difference in the naming convention.
Another similar example - I no longer keep a 'reading list' or a 'someday maybe' list, I just have a series of bookmarks and notes that's searchable if I need to reference them for something in the future.
Either it's important enough to do now, or it's important enough to forget until it's important enough to do now.
I've got a "forever project" I'm working on (a web based storytelling game platform) and it's been an absolute joy to have something I can keep extending and tweaking.
Sometimes my motivation is to enable a new type of game I'm designing and sometimes it's just to make the platform better.
One thing that I've found super helpful is having a huge diversity of TODOs. If I'm in the mood to code some logic - great, if I'm feeling like tweaking the visuals - cool, if I'm excited about doing game design and working on a draft – that's fine too. There's always something to chip away at that suits my mood and energy.