True dat. At least there's this thread to help guilt us into getting stuff done. And if course, guilt is an okay replacement for discipline, especially if you're working in a team, hehe.
For me, the roadblock I've experienced with Quark Storm is actually learning enough about level design to come up with enough interesting ways to use the game mechanics and world-specific elements, all while watching the difficulty curve so it actually makes sense and levels can be completed by people other than myself. Developers should never judge their own game's difficulty, not due to bias but rather due to being so used to playtesting levels while they're being built that they end up breezing through most of them, all while the average player gets stuck right at the beginning (yeah, that kind of thing did happen with one of Quark's early levels).
I guess you're right. It's a lot harder to procastinate when by doing so you're letting other people down. It's the one reason I think I work better with others, since I can't bin projects just like that.
That said, I'm currently working on a project with somebody else. If all goes well, I guess there'll be something we can show in a month or so. Coming up with a viable physics system according to what we need is proving quite entertaining, even if I still can't grasp it completely!
Having to make sure what you do works well with somebody else's work is also a nice change of peace, since I have to make the code fit the game rather than fitting the game around my code.
