Quick blather today. Just affirming the plan!

KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID

It's easy to get obsessed with that perfect game, to think the game has to be the greatest thing ever in every single way even if it's just your lone ass trying to make the seacrit sauce.

We can't do that. And in the short term it does a disservice to that long term goal to build everything up in these large, painstaking towers trying to figure out best pipelines and workflows.

Our knee jerk reaction is to think smaller, simpler, easily peaced together systems aren't as good. BUT THEY"RE BETTER! And in the long run they lead to those perfectly polished, perfectly playble and fun games because they allow for iteration.

When you spend years and years and years trying to fulfill your vision, you often find that it was only perfect in your mind, and now that you've duct taped it together, you find you never really had a visino at all. Just a notion of greatness, and that if you put the bodies towards sommething and the man hours, you would obtain that greatness. As if a product is nothing more than a line that needs to be walked.

If you want to make anything great, it's because you know what you're doing. The only way to figure out what you're doing is to fail.

We are CHAMPIONS of failure 'round these parts!

That's why I think the fish game might finally be kickin' ass!

So ANYWAY! Just gonna start getting this shit in the game! Doesn't have to be prefect, i can't compete with level designers who have 8 hours a day to work on their small sections of a level, who have artists who have 8 hours a day and the best tools and the best fancy riggings and support systems to make the absolute best looking shit that sprawls into story that writers have 8 hours a day to blather up.

And honestly, when you think of all the resoucecs, all the job applications, all the storefronts monopolized, wheels greased that gave these jackarses EVERY SINGLE damned advantage, they should be f*cking EMBARASSED by the garbage they put out.

Oh well, I swear at some point I'm going to just focus on the positivity of things, but it's been refreshing to see the winds of change blowing, and I'm going to relish in it for a little while. Life HAS NOT been good to us of late. It's actually been pretty f*cking rough. But we've chugged along despite it all bustin' our arse. Maybe that changes soon. Or maybe not, who knows. All we can do is keep chuggin' along.

Quick little stealth update: I guess I jinxed it. Health took a nosedive. On top of that some vien in my eye popped and I look like a demon, I guess this is fairly common for diabetics. Ugh, I was just starting to think I had my life back and this all happens. Got a little lax with my diet, ate a bunch of red meat. Gonna try to cut down on fats and salts and general quantity of what I eat. Gotta finish this darned game and can't do so when health is in the dumps. Nausia and disiness today, but at least the breathlessness hasn't really set in. Hoping I feel better soon. This demo is getting close.