Very great breakdown of how this project panned out and the overall process to get it to where it was!
Totally resonate with a lot of these points and, coming from more of a music background, absolutely understand the feeling of needing to have your hard work validated or at least viewed by others -- slowly starting to get past it but it does linger in the back of my mind.
Keep on rockin' cause I definitely enjoyed your game and can't wait to see what things you make next!
Thanks for reading! When it comes to validation, I think (a favorite artist of mine) Porter Robinson can be used as inspiration. He said something along the lines of “one of the most important things we do is to forget what we are doing is work”. In his best moments he has just let himself be driven by curiousity, and I think there is a lot to be learnt from that. While if you are going to do something for a living, you of course should check if what you will make is viable before spending half a year working on it, but I think it makes a big difference if it starts with curiosity, and after being validated is driven by curiosity. Making it possible to have it as a job, but also just letting it be fun and silly.
