Hi cohost friends 💖 Just posted my new 6k-word manifesto blog post epic about having radical pride in your art. Give it a read!
some banger stuff here
"I’m not asking you to like everything, to forsake having opinions about art. I obviously enjoy being opinionated about these things. But when you’re more generous with the games you play, you’ll be more generous with the games you allow yourself to want to make. You’ll be more willing to experiment, to tell smaller, weirder stories."
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"You don’t have to lock yourself in a gamedev bunker and make your prescribed “first dozen games that are going to SUCK” so you can get to your pixel art metroidvania. By adjusting your perspective, you can start making games you’re happy with right now. Find the tool that feels right to you. Spend an evening fiddling with it. Make something happen on the screen that you like, that sparks a tiny fire in your chest. Then think about what a small game built around that spark might look like. "
of course i was reading this with half of my brain and dropping notes into the stupid big ambitious interactive fiction project document with the other. learning is a long process.
applies to other art mediums as well !!
