We all have them don't we? Those projects that we started as "a little something to do when bored" that kind of evolved into something much larger than we intended. Some project that you started years ago, which may be outdated, and may be irrelevant, but represent a signifigant investment in time over the years. A project not really super-relevant anymore, one could say, to be blunt "too bad to finish" but yet too good, or atleast, something you're too involved in, to throw away.
Wizznic is mine, she's old, she was made to run on a piece of hardware long out of production, with a 500 mhz arm cpu and 320x240 display.. Since then, it's been ported to Playstation Portable, other hand held consoles, and even some phones.. It runs, ofcause also on Linux and Windows, but its legacy is clear. I'm going to finish Wizznic one day, ofacuse I am, releasing that good old 1 point O, then I will lean back, and watch the world ignore it, at least for a while, until I charge mentally to start the next thing, maybe SDL-Ball 2, maybe that Speedball clone, maybe my own original idea (which is secret because I think it's good, too good to share, because I want to be the one to do it, we all have our motivations right? Mine is partly vanity, but at least I'm honest).
I've done almost nothing to Wizznic over the past year and a half, it's always above my head, haunting me, making me feel guilty that I've not finished it.. The work left is mostly trivial.. But everything is hard when you don't want to do it. I can't start a new project, I can't throw Wizznic away, it needs to be finished first, I cannot accept throwing all that work away, even if it was really fun to do, it feels like too much of a failure, a loss, unexploited potential.
That was my story, am I alone with thoughts like those?
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