That or "just make a little prototype, no big deal, keep it scoped", which is the devil talking
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That or "just make a little prototype, no big deal, keep it scoped", which is the devil talking
Strong season for "ah shit now I'm thinking about something else when I already have shit to do" right now
Oh 100%. But this is also absolutely the "finding out" sequel to "fucking around"
I feel less bad for them in the sense that this was like...very obviously not an appropriate product and I don't think this was a good-faith effort.
And you got it ready too? Mmmhmm.
Look. Why are you building a Machine if you're not gonna use it.
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i think and have spoken a lot with other indie creators about getting projects to break out of your personal orbit of followers and reach outside audiences and literally the biggest answer is “people talk about it to Their friends”. so, idk, shout out a thing if you like it! it’s nice to do!
It's strange that it's true but it's absolutely true for some reason
Tumblr is weird as shit in that regard. Posts about games just kind of circulate for years. It's wild
At least with the rock you gotta make some shit up. This isn't anything
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It is indeed very frequently easier to imagine the end of the hobby than to imagine a game that isn't D&D
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I do also think that beyond just nerd social fallacies, there's a hesitancy born of the frailty of a game group. Like being painfully aware that someone could just be playing video games and if they dip it ruins the whole thing probably prevents folks from saying "hey please lock in" sometimes.
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Yep, and Demon's Souls before it is in some ways even more retro (up to and including being broken up into world+level combos like it's a Mario game). This was very remarked upon at the time, even, and it's *absolutely* why it hit.
(And then the series got smoothed out over time, but y'know.)
"Making [thing] missable is unfair to the player" possibly, yes. However, a. the idea a player MUST have access to 100% of a game's content at all times regardless of choices made is an unreasonable constraint in many contexts; and b. achievement-hunter culture is a disease. Glad we cleared that up!
Ahistorical in what sense? Like notably different from past decades?
Yeah that's fair! If it's working for you then great. Just something to think about
*Have* to, sure, once you've got a few things in circulation you can just keep them circulating. The question you're going to run into is "do I *want* to do less game making"
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Yeah. Or it's just "what if we crashed the economy again and bought everything up cheap".
