Guys, don't give up too early... you don't have to have a complete game in stage 2. It's just starting an exe, showing your main game environment, some steering and thats it... a BASIC game engine... It was nothing else last year. The gameplay and game can and will change during development. But giving up in stage 2 would be horrible, because you'll have much time later on to make things better...

Every stress situation will have its end. Personally I am too in a stressy situation. Job has deadlines, too. Family (and me too) is ill. This compo project, my other game project, some other projects here and there. All in all I only have one hour a day for everything in average...

But I will continue and most things are much easier than I thought in the beginning.