Something that's always kind of bugged me about gamedev stuff on bird website is like...
Any dev above a certain notoriety doesn't really talk about their development anymore. It's more of the hot takes variety, or little bite size clips to show off to try to grab attention.
Nobody talks about the nuts and bolts of development because it's over the heads of most people; or worse attracts the sort of player who's looking to pick a fight because they don't understand how design works.
@mauve Also there's not really room (either technically in terms of character counted or socially) for actual discussion of stuff in a deep or nuanced way. Which sort of combined with what you described in a feedback loop.
@mauve Ah. I didn't see that there was more context. Speaking of standing alone, heh. Oops.
I did the same thing a few times and agree it's exhausting.
@mauve It makes me want some more grease on blog publishing.
@benhamill I've been tempted to open up a Medium before but I haven't had the time to brush up my writing form for proper blog posts.
I think my ideal length is 'give me like 5 or 6 paragraphs to gush about something' and not a full-length article, and I haven't really got a good grasp on it right now.
@mauve Yeah. I feel liked there's some kinda half way thing that (some) people want. I tend to polish and edit blog posts and get feedback from folks. But sometimes I just want to barf out some ill-formed thoughts and see what people say.
I guess that's another thing: I don't have comments on my blog. But I often want some interaction on this half thing I'm thinking of. Which is why it ends up here, but here isn't quite the right fit. IDK.
@benhamill Comments are rarely helpful in my experience anyway. Too few people and nobody talks to each other, too many and there's no distinct voice.
Talking w/ people involved directly helps more, so I'd rather just direct people to talk about things elsewhere if at all possible.
@mauve Yeah. I had a line about people tweeting at me. I should probably change that since I took my Twitter link off and replaced it with this.
@benhamill Yeah I was kind of just touching on that a couple seconds ago, ahaha.
Every tweet must stand on its own over there, because it will be taken out of context. 140 chars wasn't enough; 280 is... sort of better, but still lacking.
I found myself writing things out to a scratch pad and then trying to organize them into bite sized pieces and that's just exhausting/tiring.