When you refactor during a change, you make the change bigger.

When you refactor before the change, you make the change smaller.

- in a talk by Jason Swett

2 things that make a HUGE difference to my #gamedev / #indiedev motivation:

1. People actually playing the game! Nothing tops this. Someone enjoying it enough to play more than once? 🤯 UHMAYZING!

2. Constructive + positive reviews. Motivation often comes from reviews where the player points out specific things. Sometimes, they are things I never even thought of. Positive reviews boost my ego, which is motivational in its own way.

What keeps your motivation up?

I have been genuinely baffled by the cries to put self-promotion behind a CW since I started using Mastodon in earnest this fall.

I know that everyone uses social media differently, but I want to know what people are working on. I want to know about new books or albums or apps or podcasts or whatever. I want to know who is looking for help via crowdfunding.

I care about the whole person, not a persona they're forced into by arbitrary rules.

Mastodon: *emulates Twitter’s UI and uses incredibly similar, playfully-tweaked terminology*

Also Mastodon: “For gods sake can everyone stop acting like this is Twitter?”

Love you bbz but what? 😘