Comments on: One Problem With Open Game Development

By: icuurd12b42

icuurd12b42 — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:51:40 +0000

Heat Signature is starting to look pretty sweet.

By: TooNu

TooNu — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:43:12 +0000

Oh goodness, now I don’t know what I said about the testing :/ this is a really great post Tom, it must be emotionally draining of course and I appreciate how open you have been about your development time.

Feedback is great, but it sucks also for the reasons you’ve written. Hopefully the process will be worth it and you can look back and believe it was all worth it (despite how negative you felt at times).

Good luck anyway Tom :) I will buy Heat signature on day 1 anyway :)

By: Diego

Diego — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:04:48 +0000

This is a great post but you could have improved it with examples where this happened, this way the reader won’t be confused as to whether he was one who gave unwanted criticism. :P

This was a joke. I hate making this disclaimer, but I’m on the internet for long enough to appreciate its importance.

Seriously now, I understand your point. And I never thought about that before.

By: Austin Moore

Austin Moore — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 15:57:33 +0000

I can understand what you mean and i think this counts for everything , i remember an essay i spent an few days on and was so proud of it i freaked out when handing it in because i did not want to see the mistakes.

If you don’t want to be showing off every detail that’s fine, i think its amazing you are doing any kind of open development

Keep it up Tom. :)

By: tinyangrycrab

tinyangrycrab — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:34:52 +0000

You are a bro. Do not fret and accept your broitude. Good work bro!

By: James Thompson

James Thompson — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:33:10 +0000

I can totally empathise with this. When you get to a point where you feel really happy with something you have worked hard on, then getting even totally valid criticism is really dispiriting.

By: StevenM

StevenM — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:22:51 +0000

I feel a similar sense of misery but for a different reason. I generally produce my work and shop it around for the explicit purpose of people giving suggestions and critique. The misery comes when a fix seems so obvious I wonder how, through hours of toil, I overlooked it completely. So I go “I finished it!” to “How did I miss that?!” to “Well I know what to fix now”.

The general solution for this scenario, I’ve found, is the old standby of simply waiting until the next day and reviewing the work with a fresh perspective. Often I revise the piece again before shopping it around. Sometimes people still find obvious errors – and that’s fine, too. It means I have a plan of action.

By: Shaun Cheah

Shaun Cheah — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 21:41:50 +0000

Ah snap, I’m probably guilty of this. I see something I like and I think I have an idea of how it could be better and I just say so without thinking of the effect that criticism will have on the thing’s creator. It’s something I should work on, I think.

But yeah, I can see how this is a good thing. I’ve heard a lot of advice to just never read comments ever because they tend to be terrible all the time, but that advice predates the rise of the upvote/downvote system which allowed comments sections to kinda manage themselves. This is a good middle ground, I think.

By: Marc Forrester

Marc Forrester — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 21:28:21 +0000

Sounds a lot like Heat Signature is close to release from here :D