A Stupid Discussion
Today someone put a very cynical comment at one of my old post.
Honestly it made me upset for a few hours. It's so annoying to think that some stranger could ruin your beautiful morning just because of his few sentences.
I started this blog with no intention of big audience at all. Perhaps just a bunch of friends and some others that may come here by accident. I am a newbie in this industry, still fresh with excitement about what I do and what can happen in the future. I so do not expect any veteran coming here being judgemental about a few words that I write.
I was thinking, have I made a big mistake, calling it "my game"? And so what, if I want to do so? Everyone knows a game is a collaboration work of so many people. I believe each one of us can call it "mine". The chief, sales, producer, project manager, tester, designer, lincensor, and any of the artists and programmers.
And yeah it's my baby. If my words are too strong for you, I can say at least some part of it is my baby. I take part in building it. I know I'm not alone in this. A lot of people here would say the same thing. I always think of these words as a sense of pride in what we do. After all, we are in the game industry. I don't know about you. You're probably some genious that found it too easy to get in and bored after a while. But I work hard to get here and take joy in every single moment.
Probably in the future I may get as tired as you. But the important thing is now that I'm not. I want to save my excitement and happiness as long as possible. You can say I'm stupid, naive, or whatever it is that you get from your vast experience. But I will get that along my own way. I don't need some cynical guy telling me how gloomy the world is.
Maybe after I get some experience I can go to newbie websites, telling them they're stupid and just puppet of a committee.
This is just stupid. I've worked on 3 published games and whole bunch of TV/films and in the end it's not your product, not your vision, not your baby. The only thing you have in this world is your execution of your idea - to be independent. Everything else is just design/production by committee.
Honestly it made me upset for a few hours. It's so annoying to think that some stranger could ruin your beautiful morning just because of his few sentences.
I started this blog with no intention of big audience at all. Perhaps just a bunch of friends and some others that may come here by accident. I am a newbie in this industry, still fresh with excitement about what I do and what can happen in the future. I so do not expect any veteran coming here being judgemental about a few words that I write.
I was thinking, have I made a big mistake, calling it "my game"? And so what, if I want to do so? Everyone knows a game is a collaboration work of so many people. I believe each one of us can call it "mine". The chief, sales, producer, project manager, tester, designer, lincensor, and any of the artists and programmers.
And yeah it's my baby. If my words are too strong for you, I can say at least some part of it is my baby. I take part in building it. I know I'm not alone in this. A lot of people here would say the same thing. I always think of these words as a sense of pride in what we do. After all, we are in the game industry. I don't know about you. You're probably some genious that found it too easy to get in and bored after a while. But I work hard to get here and take joy in every single moment.
Probably in the future I may get as tired as you. But the important thing is now that I'm not. I want to save my excitement and happiness as long as possible. You can say I'm stupid, naive, or whatever it is that you get from your vast experience. But I will get that along my own way. I don't need some cynical guy telling me how gloomy the world is.
Maybe after I get some experience I can go to newbie websites, telling them they're stupid and just puppet of a committee.
posted by mee at 8:31 pm
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