Lancing with Myself

I made one episode for a week for a year - and one more, for how you can view YOUR game design year. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I made these podcasts bite-size because learning is for life, and it's okay to graze Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The only thing worse than being talked about is NOT being talked about. You can't afford to NOT be talked about. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nothing lasts forever. When things outlive their purpose, when you outgrow them, when they must be let go - walk away. That's what makes it art: letting go. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Just because everyone has their own path doesn't mean you have to walk alone. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Because it's not the games that matter, but why. What excites me will hopefully help you understand what excites YOU. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's okay to do some things for free or low rates. But your goal is always to make money. That's what stops it being a hobby. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you're a dead end where things dry up, you won't go far. Gaming matters more than you. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sometimes you don't design a game, you just design a mechanic. Or a framework or a structure. Build them anyway. A workshop full of parts is the best toolkit. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You can't prepare for everything, and art doesn't work that way anyway. Art is inherently surprising to us, and you CAN plan for that. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You will change as a designer. You need to stop being the designer you used to be. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You can't do every part of gaming every single day. So why not try this mnemonic? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Crunch, fluff - what does it all means? The answer lies in a shiny little dog. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The need to be famous, successful, feted, seen...it will mess you up. It might even kill you. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The infrastructure can be predatory. But it can also be your brest friend, so make use of it. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There's the folks who panned the gold, who made nothing. And the folks who made the pans, who got rich Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Many art forms need research to help give fuel to the fire. And that's the key word: it helps Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Busy is a drug. Great buzz, highly addictive, will definitely kill you. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Artists should know art history. Game devs should know game history. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You're designing for a long time; you'll go from a baby designer to an adult to an old aged one... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The best way to understand something is to see it from the outside Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Even if only for a moment, try to do every part of game design from the very start to the very end. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There are so many ways to make a game, market a game, sell a game, produce a game, or just be creative, there's no way you can think of them all. So stop trying and stop being mad when you don't. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

These days mass appeal is all the rage which might make you think you can't find room for your weird little child. But in fact with mass appeal comes the wonder of the sides... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Art and sales is all about getting people to trust you, and what you do.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Game design is a long long process. You need to learn patience, dammit! Learn it now!EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Why Revealed. Okay so we talked about needing to know why, but how do you know? Let's find out.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Perfect Game Designer. If you're trying to figure out if you should do something, or keep doing something, or stop doing something, remember to figure out WHY you're doing something, and go back to that.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There are so many things the perfect game designer does. Guess what: you can't be that person. Stop trying.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Leave Room For Post Production. You can run yourself out just making the game and forget that that's only one third of the marathon. Leave something left in your tank for the next two parts.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Back in episode 33 of the Youtube series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-02LWbII_4&t=18s) we said Ugly First, Pretty Later. The same logic applies. You can't get to finished if you aim too high. Make the smallest thing you can.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Just Show Up. 90% of people are too busy or too distracted or too flakey to follow through on most things. Your first job is to just show up. And that's 90% of the task.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Terrible Truth About the Blank Page. In the end, it's about just you and it. And it does not like you.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Actually I mean share share share; if you believe in love everlong, or just want to help build a scene, a hobby and an industry, you need to share.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

My Man Guillaime Apollinaire. The lynchpin of cubism, surrealism, fauvism and dadaism was one nice guy who liked to have bring people together. You can build a scene by being like him.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The way to stop impostor syndrome is to shore up against it with indications of legitimacy, in advance.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Right Tool for the Right Brain. Not everything messing with your head is Impostor Syndrome. Do some actual psychology, check your brain out, and deal with it intelligently.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Don't Take My Advice! I'm not you. My advice is therefore inherently suspect.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Game design is giving you incredible skills. Talk that UP.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The only way to find the path is to beat the long grass down.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One easy way to make it look like you're making a game is to make it look like you've made a game already...EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Just as luck comes and goes, so do opportunities. Some times, your timing will just suck. Hang around, the next train is not far behind.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Some things in design will come easy. Others will be like trying to get blood from a stone. Knowing your rhythms will help you work more effectively.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Being a fan might sound like silly advice but it is a way to enrich you and enrich others. Love things in your field and your field will love you back.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Being a creative is a marathon not a sprint. You're going to fill the world with scribbled manuscripts and half-completed masterpieces and the better you can organise the madness, the better you can master it.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The world wants you to make art. But the world is a bastard that wants your art more than than it wants you to exist. Don't listen to that voice. Live a better, richer life by not making art when you need to stop.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Luck happens. Good luck will sometimes save your ass, and you'll want to think you're clever. But other times, bad luck will crush you and you'll want to think it was your fault. The good and bad news is both times you're wrong.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You have to plan for failure, and future cake is vital. EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Not every game is great. Not every great game is publishable. Not every publishable game is going to get published because things aren't always under your control. You have to stop and move on.EPISODE NOTES: Lancing With Myself is also found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Success in movies means things end. But nothing ever ends.EPISODE NOTES: You can also find our episodes on youtube.com/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There's tons of things to learn about game design. Here's some that I've found useful.EPISODE NOTES: Our episodes also appear on youtube at youtube.com/tinstargames/Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lancing-with-myself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.