the nice thing about having a life partner in the video game industry is that whenever I start to think, "what if I made a video game" I can ask her how her work is going and I immediately lose that feeling
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in reply to @teioh's post:
this is ceding the creative experience of making a thing that interests you to the machinery of capitalism meant to exploit those who do
is true but truthfully atm I have a lot of other creative outlets that I think are a lot more satisfying than making a game; most of the time that desire is a passing whim and not something I want to dedicate dozens or hundreds of hours of my life to
you could make a twine game in an afternoon and have the experience of it, and share that experience and enrich other people's lives with your particular perspective
I mean, I coooould but atm it feels more like work during my burnout recovery phase so maybe in the future? baby steps and all that
you know you can make games without being in the industry, right ted
in all seriousness this is an option but I was thinking more of like, stories of people absolutely losing their shit trying to find an errant }
Join me in perpetually thinking about that DnD One-Shot we want to make but never actually going about doing it.
JOIN ME, TED. I have a village, a cave of wonders, a baby dragon and his adoptive lesbian moms