Pretty much everything for me comes down to time management. I should have spent time learning how to use MZ before starting my game. A lot of things I thought would be easy or "just like MV" proved to not be. I never figured out how to correctly do half the things I was trying to do, and instead of removing all the things that weren't working, some of them I just left because I needed those things (a purple gas overlay, a weird font, etc). I spent a lot of time trying to do parallax mapping for it not work and look ugly. And because things weren't working out and I was spending so much time trying to do things that didn't work, I got discouraged and stopped working on it off and on. I really should have spent more time writing things out on notepads when not actively at a computer working on the game. I should have managed my time better by making a schedule and sticking to it, and if something was taking too long, to just move on to doing something else. And really I should have chosen an easier idea to execute in the time given. On another note, I really need better air conditioning! If it's going to be this hot every summer from now on, I won't get any work done without serious air conditioning of some kind.