Writing, Art, Or Coding...What Do You Find the Hardest?

[rasburn]

For me art is most difficult, since it takes a lot of time. With coding I think it's easier to know exactly what you want, so it's easier to find a way to do it and easier to know when it's done. The exception would be when the coding is more artsy, in which case it resembles art Writing I think is easiest, even though I'm quite new to it (I'm saying I find it easy to write, not to write well). Since a script can be quite there is always something to do, so I jump around a bit depending on what I feel inspired to write

[wordlesswriter]

I'm only on my first game, so.... all of it. X___X
But I have experience in art and in writing, whereas in coding I've only ever used some bbCode and simple HTML. So coding is a learning process for me right now.

But like Sharm said, seeing your art in action makes you feel all accomplished... even when you've just finished customizing the menu and calling your character sprites. I was so proud I opened up my game and pulled one of my friends over, saying "Look! Look what I did, it's so cool!" She looked at the menu screen, then back to me, and asked, "Is that it?"
(You could practically hear my newbie heart breaking. )

[bunny-gypsy]

I'm on my first game right now, but I draw (amateur, but I can improve with practice study) already, so
that part's the "easiest" for me now. It's kind of frustrating, but at least I can practice and study anatomy and poses, photos, references, etc
to improve on that aspect.

The other aspect of writing and coding are much more trickier.

Writing I can practice and brainstorm for ideas.
Writing can be tough too, but only because I have to develop the characters and story-branches more---without it, there's no VN to program, heh.

However, with coding, once I'm stuck, I'm really, really, really stuck. My lack of coding is what currently stopping me now.
I've been looking at the Cookbook recipes and the wiki and quickstart stuff, but it wasn't until the How to Make a Simple Otome Game tutorial, that some of the basics actually made lots of sense. I like seeing examples and explaining the why and how, especially as a non-programmer, which most programming tutorials/coding tutorials don't explain much.

So, for me, coding (and music/sounds especially!--but I can find royalty-free/common use? music online, so yeah...) is kind of the toughest of the three.

I do like coding a lot---when it makes sense, though! (I'm very structured-minded.)

[Manga]

For me, each skill tends to vary on what mood I'm in and what I'm drawing/writing. Sometimes I'll be all artistic and stuff, other times I'll be in the mood for some of that alliteration jazz.

Generally, out of artwork and writing, I find writing the easiest. Mainly because I find it easier to irrepairably cock-up more detailed images, and art's never been my strong point. Coding is hard to relate to the other two. Perhaps because I can imagine writing and images when picturing something, but coding tends to go in the background until I actually start work at it.

[mark_laverdiere]

I think whatever attempt at doing or creating something that will serve as your legacy to the world is always challenging, but if you go about it with the passion and energy that the undertaking deserves, then nothing is impossible. Check out the website for my second humble attempt at writing.

[mdchan]

Coding. No bones about it, coding/programming will always give me the hardest time.

A close second, though, is actually background art. I'm fine with nature backgrounds, but when I have to do structures, I have issues (which is funny since I took tech classes in high school and excelled at them). I like to think I'm slowly getting better, so hopefully, this one will come off the list.
Also, drawing adults; I've never had an art class, and started out doing fanart for Digimon and DBZ (mostly of Gohan), so I've never been good at drawing adults as opposed to kids. I'm getting better at drawing teenagers, but adults still give me trouble. I'm actually trying to tailor my ideas to have the least amount of adult drawings as possible.

Third will probably be advertising. I know I'll have problems with this, because I've already taken shots at attempting a webcomic, and it didn't get very far since I couldn't pay to advertise it anywhere and had to depend on word of mouth. I have more resources now, but I still won't be able to afford advertising for my games.