Sort it out Johnny!

I often wonder why I am so scared all the time.

All the energy I expend needlessly in the work place fretting about just how long the 'company' will need me could be better directed to outside creative efforts.

How much of this stress impacts the creative process I employ on a day to day basis?

My cousin Jay likes to say "sort it out!" It is really funny the way he says it, and is nearly always meant in jest. It has me thinking however how it is I can sort myself out. Do I need sorting out or should I just learn to be more positive?

When we sort out the pros and cons of game mechanics how much of that self-talk effects our moment to moment tastes? Have we allowed enough internal sorting out to take place before we rush to impress with our latest bold decision?

When you question what is fun, and question the fundamentals of emotional conveyance, are the labels and diagnosis of our forbearer clouding our responses? It would appear from my perspective that assumption and past tense rule the day. Why is that?

Can it be that society has cowed creative confidence? Rather I believe, it is often the desire for ownership of ideas and the stamping of one's mark upon something, that filters down into projects from whatever supplementary source the development maintains. I maintain in earnest, that trust is all one should desire from their charges and that anything less is a mal-investment.

Honestly from my perspective, and a narrow one it is, I see success coming to those who create without license to some predestined ideal.

Asking an artist for something other than what they truly have passion for is mal-investment. Striving to meet expectations is mal-investment, while the act of pure creation in my opinion is the strongest investment.

Nay-sayers will say, 'that's been tried and we've seen it fail countlessly.' The obvious rebuttal is 'how many of those times did you use a hands-off approach and give the artisans the time they needed?'

Indi-devs are solidly proving time and again that audiences want genius. Too many cooks spoil the broth and too many opinions undermine the possibility for something truly special.

Individually everyone one of us has to sort out the incoming onslaught of opinion and try to plan for the future. Collectively we all need to sort out our level of speculation and expectation.

Opinions are only valid if they are opinions based on hands on experience and the direct love for the craft.

Now that that's sorted out...back to your regular programming.