However do you find motivation to finish your incomplete games?
It really hard to stay motivated. Sometimes your reason for not finishing a project is a lack of knowledge or skills. You can find lots of material online to help with this however, every game is different, and the solutions vary a lot between them. You may need to level up your skills before you can finish something. This can be demotivating especially if you don't grasp a concept quickly you may have to do it several times to fully understand. Persistence is a desirable trait to have when making games. Making Games is hard.
We hope to provide an incentive for developers to finish stuff as well as get things tested with real players. We also encourage testers to roast the creators hard and provide honest feedback. I guess it comes down to who is making it, how much you believe in the project, and the feedback you get. These are things that can motivate you to finish a project or abandon it.
That's right, I just found this jam and thought it would be cool to submit our game, which we finally improved today after 5 months.
Mind you, the update was ready 3 months ago. However, I couldn't release it because I wasn't able to configure the CORS properly. So I almost cancelled the whole game update. Yesterday I was thinking through the game and thought, well, if I can't get the CORS to work, let's just remove the modding from the game and at least release the update so that a small chapter can be completed.
I then made one last attempt to find the CORS problem. And after 6 hours I finally managed to fix the problem without removing the modding.
With this achievement, I am highly motivated to continue working on this game. It was an overwhelming experience when I finally managed to write my CORS properly so that the game can communicate from the Itchio website to our Game Wikipedia website.
So guys, sometimes it's good to take a break and then continue with new knowledge and experience and try again!