Whenever someone asks what I do and I say that I make video games, if the person knows nothing about games, the question or comment they make right after is often really interesting.
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Whenever someone asks what I do and I say that I make video games, if the person knows nothing about games, the question or comment they make right after is often really interesting.
Yesterday, I got this one: “Oh wow! So, do you come up with the ideas for the games, or actually make them?”
I'm still pondering how interestingly binary that was.
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@vampiress I can't comment on games specifically but there does seem to be this belief that the idea itself is inherently valuable and also this idealised thing that then gets realised. It's my view that an idea is necessary, but worthless without implementation and also will evolve as it meets implementation realities.
Seen a lot of stories of people coming to devs with "this great idea, you just have to build it and you get 10%". It's almost a trope. No, the idea is the easy bit. Bring things other than just that and maybe you'll add value here.
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This is also true about any open source project. Ideas are cheap. Doing is hard.