I believe you don’t need to endlessly absorb the latest game dev discourse. Much of it already aligns with your intuition and principles. My admittedly gross opinion is that most game dev discourse is intellectual entertainment… and not very entertaining, haha! Yet, I too participate.
Every presentation, article, or conversation about making and selling games is an opportunity to employ a different perspective on the matter than your own – and it’s fleeting, until it intuitively resonates with you or connects with your project.
No need to make notes. Just listen & let it simmer.
I believe that game development, as well as game marketing, is more random, serendipitous, and not-methodical than presentations & experts make us believe.
I believe in the wonder of human subconsciousness and intuition, in our ability to absorb info, retain ‘the gist’, and surface when necessary.
15 years of lived experience doing business & marketing for games have taught me that all models are wrong… but some are useful!
I watch marketing talks not to structure my efforts but to test my intuition & casually brainstorm. This particular talk gave me 4 ideas worth exploring! Go watch it.
gamers gotta grind
both of those platforms are being added right now though! @stuartcarnie.bsky.social has a tvOS PR. i believe visionOS is already supported, even?
right, ‘initial’ is a misnomer. at some point in your process you decided to take things into the direction of a 1D tower defense game (or however you want to describe the gameplay) and i’d say that’s the underlying idea that i suspect was serendipitous? or the ideas that led you there were
aftermath, verge, and bsky
good thing we all earn double now, right! right????!!!
i would like to make a reservation
never thought less of you
oh and @celineveltman.bsky.social made the fantastic art for it! i love her style
awwww yeah, Sokpop’s @tijmen.sokpop.co took a genre (deck builders), then took a core part of the genre out (playing the cards), and then made the game very very juicy.
he shared an early build with me and its very good. (all the @sokpop.co members are very good at making games, jealously so.)
the bush though
ok jeez NO NEED TO YELL
you cut a feature after releasing the thing?!?
i’d say you can’t conflate execution and initial idea. the former is your craft, the latter is (mostly) serendipity — unless you have a wild creative habit which i think few people who do execution well have
you don’t have to be right to make a thing
fuckin hell
Very Good Commentary
puzzles are the opposite of playful
wait this is godot 3.x isn’t it? forget it
make a proposal!!
maybe
tell them keith, tell them
make 👏🏼 that 👏🏼 proposal 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
misschien
yeah, dragging the camera
designed this cursor, and really proud of it for some reason
good thread
