![]() ![]() When you’re free of the hostage situation of endless staff check-ins, you’ve got your head down, face buried in your keyboard (or your fancy tablet thingy if you’re an artist), trying to produce just the right material for the deadline looming way too close. Worth thinking about when someone says that they might be good developing games because they like playing them.” ![]() It is at best one tiny component of a craft and art that requires decades of practice and dedication. Can you compare a trip to the museum to endless nights spent alone in a cramped closet of an attic studio passionately pursuing a labor of love? Viewing is nothing like painting. But it is a completely different skill to stand at a blank canvas and then spend hundreds of hours fiddling with brushes and colors and lines and form to create the painting. Anyone can look at a painting and instantly give their opinion on why they love it or hate it. Grueling marathon meetings are pretty much par for the course.ĭesigner Dan Cook (owner of game design website, who is currently working on new versions of his games Steambirds and Bunni) describes it like this: “I come from an art background, so I use the painting metaphor. (Except for about 10 minutes near the end.) This was not an unusual day. I just got out of a 3.5-hour meeting full of programmers who look like zombies from lack of sleep. (Except when it is.) Making games is a special kind of torture from which sane men run. ![]() I’m here to tell you that particular cake is a lie. ![]()
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