I’m doing something new! I’m teaming up with a friend of mine who does streaming and we’re doing to play games and chat in a podcast type format.
We’ll start this Tuesday from 7-10 PM Eastern (maybe later!) at https://www.twitch.tv/maulgrim
A few notes after the break.
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Well, if nothing else this little event got me to post again. There’s still more stuff I’d like to post about, but my days of lobbing firebombs for the sake of watching things burn was a while ago. I’m just an guy who tries to find the courage to do the things I found routine before.
A few closing thoughts to the month.
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Time to write perhaps the most personal post of the week, talking about depression. It’s not an easy topic to talk about in the first place, but when it’s affecting you and you’re all too aware of the stigmas, it can be even harder to deal with it.
But I want to say a few words. We’ll see how long my courage holds out.
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In yesterday’s post I gave a perspective on the exclusion of the game industry. It’s no secret that a lot of the game industry looks the same, but homogeneity goes deeper than that. It’s about accepting others who are just like the existing group. This leads to a lack of diversity in these companies.
So now let’s look a bit closer on what we can do to make things more inclusive.
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There’s been a lot of talk about how the game industry excludes certain people, particularly women. There’s the perception that the game industry isn’t welcoming of certain people because bigotry is rife and people who don’t fit the specific concept won’t make it.
The reality is a bit more complex, and frankly a bit worse, than that. Let me share some of the dirty secrets of the game industry as I’ve experienced it.
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Something I’ve been thinking about recently is how popularity really affects creative work. We tend to have this vision of a creative person as an iconoclast who follows the beat of their own drum. But reality is more complex than that, of course. The reality is that popularity matters quite a bit in creative work, especially if you want to make a living at it.
Let’s take look through the lens of my own experience.
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This week I want to delve into a bit of personal thought. I’ve been quiet, and there have been reasons for that, stuff not usually talked about. But perhaps it’s good to get some therapy and thought out in the open, if I can find the courage to do so.
A few thoughts for now to prime the pump.
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So, for tonight’s post I wanted to open things up a bit. Ask me questions about Storybricks. Tell me what you liked, what you didn’t like, and all that.
I’ll share a few things below that I think might be interesting.
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After a week of talking a bit about the promise and a little behind the scenes, I wanted to look at the reason why all this talk is reminiscing instead of excitement about what we’re doing. Storybricks is no longer around and I wanted to dig a bit into the reasons for this.
Let’s take a look at why something that had promise withered on the vine.
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I explained the concept of the original Storybricks setting yesterday with floating islands and a big bad with a world full of layers. Today I wanted to explain a bit about those layers and how they would work in my vision.
