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Thoughts on art,game-making,Phil Phish,and moral supremacy
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 On 08/10/2014 at 05:53 PM by BrokenH See More From This User » |
Still having fun doing art for my Gutterdelve story arch! Here is an epic collage I worked on for a few days,hollah if you like it!
So,will I make another Gutterdelve game? It's a question that pops up every once in awhile and is one I've been entertaining albeit cautiously. I even made a few maps in rpgmaker xp but beyond that not much in the way of game making has been done.
I will say that I wasn't ready to be a game-maker yet during my first attempt. I intially released my game too early when it still had bugs and though I'm normally cool around trolls and critics I discovered they could be exceptionally vicious when ripping apart a precious indie-baby.
I think the difference is you can put your sweat,tears,and labor into a game for 6 months to a few years so there's a lot of personal investment and deep emotions wrapped up in it. By contrast I'm not as angry when people take their collective dump on my art due to the fact cranking out an illustration is much less time consuming.
My worst beef is critics these days do not simply judge the game itself but try to use it as a way to judge the person who created it too. Though I got a few good criticisms alot of the rest was comments like "You are a misogynist because there is a part in your game where your female characters have a conversation in a kitchen." People look really hard to see if a building is actually a giant penis and often enough even if there is no sinister hidden context they will find a red herring created by their very own delusional minds. In my day people did not try this hard at moral grandstanding,vilification. and political correctness and I find such intellectual circus antics to be utterly absurd! Beisides just because an author or artist may include things like rape,incest,torture,and ultra violence it does not automatically make them guilty of those crimes. I'm sure George RR Martin and the guy who created Walking Dead are nice in person despite going into macabre and disturbing scenes in their stories.
Regardless, I somewhat empathize with the jerk who is Phil Fish just because I put myself in the same trenches and had to deal with the same shit. Not every game designer is a social debutante and we certainly do not have the benefit of hiding behind seasoned PR people who can handle even the most abrasive of detractors!
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