Cejic
Onshi
So there's an issue in my personality that's been rearing it's head a little to often, and I was curious to see if others have similar experience.
This last week I joined a Game Jam, a week long event to create a game around a basic premise. When starting into it I decided it'd be a good push to learn UE4 better, regardless of outcome or assistance gained during the jam. We're about halfway through now and I've gotten 0 assistance from anyone else, and that's frustrating. I knew it was unlikely to get assistance during these events and I've not explicitly flagged anyone down, but it's still irritating. I'm also unable to solicit advice/expertise from the group as not many seem to be using the same toolset, if any. This is mostly just a quirk of expectations of comradery that shouldn't have existed.
Moreover there's a sense of competition that I'm finding very counter productive. In the chat functions they have !motivation, which DMs a message to motivate you. I tried it once and was completely demoralized as it sent a reference to videos/compilations of other people's work. I'm sure it's not just me that gets extremely frustrated when you ask for help/information and you get told to look at others and do as they do. For me, if I'm struggling at something and I'm shown a bunch of people that already finished, I get a strong urge to quit, obviously they're better suited for it than me, why should I bother?
I dunno, it's all extremely petty, but does anyone else have times where competition isn't really a thing but the effects of it still shut down any benefit gained from working in a group?
This last week I joined a Game Jam, a week long event to create a game around a basic premise. When starting into it I decided it'd be a good push to learn UE4 better, regardless of outcome or assistance gained during the jam. We're about halfway through now and I've gotten 0 assistance from anyone else, and that's frustrating. I knew it was unlikely to get assistance during these events and I've not explicitly flagged anyone down, but it's still irritating. I'm also unable to solicit advice/expertise from the group as not many seem to be using the same toolset, if any. This is mostly just a quirk of expectations of comradery that shouldn't have existed.
Moreover there's a sense of competition that I'm finding very counter productive. In the chat functions they have !motivation, which DMs a message to motivate you. I tried it once and was completely demoralized as it sent a reference to videos/compilations of other people's work. I'm sure it's not just me that gets extremely frustrated when you ask for help/information and you get told to look at others and do as they do. For me, if I'm struggling at something and I'm shown a bunch of people that already finished, I get a strong urge to quit, obviously they're better suited for it than me, why should I bother?
I dunno, it's all extremely petty, but does anyone else have times where competition isn't really a thing but the effects of it still shut down any benefit gained from working in a group?
