We live in an era when over 90% of all active game development projects are run by complete incompetents who understand nothing about project management. AAA, AA, indie, III, solodevs - it doesn't matter - it applies equally to all groups.
The reason this makes such a difference in this industry is because this industry is unique in the absurd amount of time it takes to finish a project. This is why minor mismanagement spirals into a ruined project so often.

It has never been easier to make it if you are a guy that's actually good at project management and getting stuff finished. There's a real crisis of competence.

>>534535808
jonathan "the witness" blow is literally me... i'm literally him. I'm also a puzzlesexual.
I wanted to upload a bocchi but found this in the folder instead... I don't know how it got there.

>>16730762
the past ~5 years have felt a lot like there's a malicious entioty like the earth trisolaris organization from 3body problem trying to stop meaningful scientific progress

>>532824379
wow... a story of incest, fr*nce, pre-mature marriage, forced marriage, a motherless child, and drunken abusive husband. french people are truly subhumans.

Every time someone hates on my game I just remind myself that that same person would also hate The Lord of the Rings (books) and Captains Courageous (1937) and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and those are undisputed masterpieces, so anything they say about my game is false

how do I fix my mind running blank in casual conversations with women. I have no problems talking to anyone at work. and of course 5 minutes after the conversation, all the things I could have talked about stream into my mind.

how do I fix my mind running blank in conversations. 5 minutes later all the things I could have talked about stream into my mind.

>>529575940
Learning about weather could be vital to making a game's world more immersive and for ideas, you never know.

>>528201807
Very.

HOLY SHIT

I just noticed that steam has been deleting stats from players who played the demo more than 3-4 hours for some reason
So THAT's why the average was dropping

>>528076696
Np. You can also crawl through the free GDC Vault videos. Leagues of game designers, both legendary and relatively unknown indie, have given talks on design over the years. You can just find one with a topic that sounds cool or if its from a game designer you like. Some of them feel a bit stuffy imo, which studying "game design" as a subject has a tendency to become.. but at the end of the day it's not harmful to extract something out of the play experience and put it under an analytical microscope. Eventually design becomes pretty vibes based, but knowing these patterns and principles can help you get off the ground and build that intuition. Good luck