Experience doesn't exempt you from the fundamental realities of creative work being unpredictable. Experience tends to make you better at dealing with "failure", maybe better at recognizing it - but it doesn't mean you can avoid it. "Failure" is an important part of the work in any creative work. - ThreadSky

ramiismail.com • 37 days ago

Experience doesn't exempt you from the fundamental realities of creative work being unpredictable.

Experience tends to make you better at dealing with "failure", maybe better at recognizing it - but it doesn't mean you can avoid it. "Failure" is an important part of the work in any creative work.

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Counterpoint: we were less experienced when we made Celeste and especially TowerFall and those went great

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tomomoriwaki.bsky.social•35 days ago

Experience does a LOT. But I like that it helps you calibrate against runaway stressors, which saves energy.

thetrin.bsky.social•37 days ago

There's this misconception that creative work is like clerical work, but more fun. You fill out the form, collate the paperwork properly, and you have the fun thing. If only it were that easy.

themudman.bsky.social•36 days ago

There's this thing where successful devs sometimes get defensive because the idea that they could be wrong can make all past achievements seem like luck and all future achievements uncertain, and that's terrifying. It can make experience an obstacle sometimes.

People are just people, in the end.

legomyrstan.bsky.social•37 days ago

Experience help you iterate over “failures” faster to find something that maybe work

themrx.bsky.social•36 days ago

Honestly thats the main problem with modern society

We have turned failure into an unacceptable thing that leads to business collapse & job loss.Instead of it being seen as the most important building block for everything.

Every creative process is built on a foundation of making mistakes to learn

themrx.bsky.social•36 days ago

Society needs to stop these billionaires aiming for impossible growth and return back to sanity, where slow trial and error is the norm.

softrex.bsky.social•37 days ago

You nailed it Rami

auska.esq•37 days ago

An obvious contradiction but I think still a truism that experience would probably kill many first (and ultimately successful) projects.

Doing your homework and being prepared is a good thing for sure but when you’ve been in the game long, knowing all the ways things can go wrong is daunting 😅

visn.es•36 days ago

Games being made at all is a miracle I will never understand.

romainmacre.bsky.social•36 days ago

Moreover you normally don't try to redo what you've already done, staying in your comfort zone, so if your experience does help, you're still doing certain things for the first time.

hendriklesser.bsky.social•36 days ago

in the end exp. helps you to grow in maturity - m helps you to shape new principles & fortify them deeply, like: i cannot control it, its not my fault (in german the word „schuld“ is so powerful & bad) but i can still assess, reflect & learn someting from it to have better (educated) luck next time

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