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As someone who considers to start gamedev (purely as a hobby to finally create the single 1 good game) I thought some folks on here would like this.

Afaik the manifesto went kinda viral ?

Run Manifesto to read the Manifesto

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it does indeed go for anything. something terrible happened between when i was young to now, where hobbies became too eccentric and everyone was pressured to convert it to a "hustle". don't make friends, cultivate a network. your efforts towards anything must be evaluated within the lens of exchange-value for your labor time.

i understand the pressure, but there's a difference between playing the game and being played by the game. the difference is believing the premise to be eternal, immutable.

we must always carve out time to pursue simply for the love of it. i like to paint. i'm not good, but i find great pleasure in imagining landscapes and creating the optical illusion of distance on a flat surface. like a window into the mind. and i can always take something down and add or subtract from it, tinkering with the vision as i am inspired to do so.