{"id":40,"date":"2017-01-04T16:48:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T16:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/playtest-doubt\/"},"modified":"2017-05-21T03:44:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T03:44:23","slug":"playtest-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/playtest-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Playtest doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Showed some games and the layout for the first issue last night at a playtesting event here in town and got some really useful feedback, some enthusiasm, and a whole foaming, frothing, overflowing mug full of doubt.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Will anyone sign up for this project? Will it make any money? Does my distribution plan make sense? Is the magazine intelligible? Does it look good? Are the last 6 months of work completely worthless? Are my expectations for what <a href=\"http:\/\/wideopengames.com\">Wide Open Games<\/a> can become entirely unrealistic?<\/p>\n<p>I came home and spewed that anxiety all over Tricia who was having a lovely evening in my absence, and that was a whole thing, but eventually I calmed down, and this morning I remembered (and Tricia reminded me) to listen to the advice that\u2019s <i>in my own damn games<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not perfect, and that\u2019s OK. Courage isn\u2019t the absence of doubt, it\u2019s moving <i>through<\/i> the doubt. Starting means finishing when it\u2019s not perfect, and not starting over. Do the next simple thing, and the next, and the next.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing today. Here\u2019s this little blog. I\u2019m not deleting a ton of work. I\u2019m making small changes, I\u2019m celebrating the success of having gotten this far, and I\u2019m continuing on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showed some games and the layout for the first issue last night at a playtesting event here in town and got some really useful feedback, some enthusiasm, and a whole foaming, frothing, overflowing mug full of doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[13,35,6,34,7,11,33,30],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-dev","tag-altgames","tag-courage","tag-devblog","tag-doubt","tag-gamedev","tag-indiedev","tag-playtest","tag-smallbusiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}