Nina

I upvoted your post 1/2 way through just for the sheer effort of information. (and did continue reading, I just have nothing of value to add)

you’re not going to fault me for buying a chicken burger are you?

There are TONS of people who will do that exact thing. what is or is not a sandwich or burger (is a burger a type of sandwich?) for some reason is a stupidly contentious topic that people feel passionate about.

People take labels and their individual expectations of that label pretty emotionally.

At least small artists have been really signing up since last night/this morning on mastodon.art. It is already causing a wave. Calckey is trying to grab more people, but half the shit doesn’t load for me right now so they can’t take the brunt of it.

If you find a jam (there’s a fedi jam somewhere) you can always make a looking from group post! I think, not sure about this community exactly.

I used to have a dream game when I had lots of free time and played a lot of MMOs. There’s a lot of systems I wanted, and to be something you could be on all day. Don’t get me wrong though, I in no way had delusions that I was gonna make an mmo.

A combination of getting responsibilities and learning more about game dev made me realize you don’t need an All game, the perfect dream one, when it would be better served to have multiple smaller and more focused games for the concepts you want to explore.

There are lots of small games I’m envisioning, but they start to get really complex while planning them so I haven’t quite got there yet.

It’s been a bit, but when doing game jams I shuffled working alone and working as a team. It seems duos are the best options for me, but solo is okay. It’s just solo I get a little bit bogged down into doing the art and making it look nice instead of letting things be ugly first. If I’m working with an artist, things seem to go smoother because I can work on programming. 3 - 4 people on a very small game is too much, but obviously this is just jams and not something larger.