i ordered pesto alfredo at this italian place a few nights ago and i cleared it in like 3 minutes flat and when our waiter came back around he said “you weren’t messing around man” i genuinely felt like this
I have decided to drop out of the AI program at Amazon. I will not be making a Punky Duck series. Actions speak louder than words.
My intent was to showcase artists, both new and seasoned, both inside and outside the studios, driving this new tech.
My sincerest apology to those I upset. I promise to do better moving forward. Thank you for your patience with me. I will try harder.
Making games is hard. Hell - making art is hard. Add on top of that Publishing said art. Getting it released and put in front of people.
A game - especially on the small/solo/indie dev of things - is a deeply personal almost endless stack of subjective choices and decisions. Of pushing forward on “I believe, I think, I feel, I hope”. Of putting a piece of yourself into the creation.
Boiling the end result down to counting concurrent players, almost gleefully reporting on something in a way that almost certainly gets readers to walk away with a “yeah that failed” take, isn’t the most helpful thing for the creativity of our industry right now.