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Hi guys,

It has been a while since i have been involved in the RPG Maker community & lately i have been spending a lot of time thinking about my game & all of the time and resources i have put into trying to make my dream game a reality. I have been working on one specific game for a few years, the game has had drastic alterations as the story & mechanics evolved and i re-started several times as i narrowed in on the fact that i am only a talented artist and need significant help in the programming aspect of the game. I taught myself digital art just to create a large amount of custom content for my game which i used to sell myself and the idea of my game to attract other talented RPG maker users to help make my game a reality. I was lucky to find a highly talented programmer who was capable of creating many custom scripts and functions to the game and combat system, unfortunately i knew going in that my programmer would be starting his career as a doctor and was on time constraints to finish his end of the project. As wish most things in gaming timelines tend to not be met and my programmer tried to set myself and our writer up to finish the project, however neither of us was ever able to understand the complex scripts or event calls that he used and after a few months of staring at the game & breaking it every time we moved something came to the realization that we can not finish.

It was a horrible feeling knowing that i spent years working towards all-inning this attempt at the project & realizing that it will never move past a certain point of completion, we had 80% of the game evented along with our combat and quest system & all story necessary maps, the game was probably a few months from being in an early alpha state. I literally put my wacom tablet away for over a year i was so disappointed at not being able to finish & frustrated at myself for not being able to understand the programming aspects of rpg maker (some might say it is easy, but everyone's brain works differently). Last night i logged into deviant art and saw that i am still pretty popular on there for my RPG maker content despite not having logged on in over a year, it got me thinking about my project again and how i miss doing the art work, however i am still struggling with coming back from my failed project, i am looking for some advice from people who have had their game making dreams crushed and stuck it through on what to do?

I apologize for the wall of text....

I feel like i have a few options perhaps some people can offer me more suggestions...

-Scrap all the code in my game & setup the maps & graphics in a blank project and begin looking for a new programmer who may not be as talented as my last & may or may not see the project to completion
-Cut my losses on the project and just look into using my assets on a new fresh IP
-Stick to what i am good at and open source my tiles to the community and just add to the tile-set when i feel like doing art or get a request for certain add ons.

What i do not want to do is let all the files i have rot in internet obscurity as they can definitely be utilized by someone to create something amazing...

Help me out with some advice!!

link to my custom tiles if anyone is interested: https://www.deviantart.com/champgaming/gallery/