Nowtun's project has been quiet lately too.
Fortunately JAW are working on an official remake of AO, so it's not that much of a big loss, but it's still a big, big shame that most fan projects go this way. I guess what people plan for is too ambitious for them to complete, or their lives change and they become too busy, so as a result they lose interest.
I'm trying hard to avoid the same fate with my own project by having a list of tasks and ideas, allocating a minimum amount of my free time to it daily, and not planning anything that's too ambitious for me to complete.
At the same time though, I'm an adult in my mid-20s and have the strong feeling that I should be doing something better and more important with my spare time, even though it's just as pointless as any other hobby and people will get some joy out of the finished project. Minecraft map making isn't true game design either. But you've gotta start somewhere, I guess.
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