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Thank you for the insightful reply! I knew I was being kind of glib & dismissive to classical painting when I wrote the notecard...but like you mentioned I think the average person who is going to an art museum and getting mad at abstract art is not thinking this in-depth about the classical stuff in order to defend it - it "deserves" to be "art" more because it's instantly recognizable. I do enjoy when you can see the presence of more interpretive aspects in any painting (The Ambassadors comes to mind as an obvious example).

Honestly I think the best takeaway I had from the Manifesto Jam was trying to immediately get to work to publish other creative things while riding the high of the energy from the jam. So if you have something percolating inside you I think it's best not to wait! Just publish it!

😊😊 thank you so much, lenny!

in part it's a reference to an excerpt from that math meme: "YEARS OF COUNTING and yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going higher than your FINGERS", and in part it's a sardonic response to how reductive games journalism is in the present day (including specific journalists having a knee-jerk negative reaction to the concept of the manifesto jam itself, ironically enough complaining on Bluesky about it). if games journalists are happy with being useless, then more power to them.

Thank you, I'm glad you liked them! I have yet to make a storygraph account that's how much quarter stars piss me off 😭

love the parallels you drew between gamemaking and community theatre :) you're so right!

💯💯💯 agree!! i've never understood adoptables for this very reason.

also as someone who tried to muse on style for her own manifesto, i LOVE the definition you give to style here!

"are they good ideas? i don't know. are they meaningful? worthwhile? i don't know. i will never know unless you share them." I really liked this line! Nifty manifesto! from one Emma to another :)

Marvelous presentation and I feel this so hard...there's a blog post idea that has been simmering in the back of my mind about obfuscation/ambiguity, and how I'm really drawn to it in stories, but I don't think I myself am very good at conveying it - everything I make has to be INCREDIBLY DIRECT or a perfect 1:1 metaphor. I'm gonna be pondering antisense in my art moving forward!

i love the concept that the game is only real once it breaches containment from the screen to someone's thoughts & actions...the velveteen rabbit of gamemaking

yes!!!!! one-star ratings on free games are for pointing and laughing!!

Beautiful!!! I am on a journey to let go of every time I spoke sawdust 😩

hell yeah!!!

YES to obscurity and secrets YES!!!!!!!!

VOLUNTEER for events as well!!! if you are like me when i was younger and you feel awkward just kind of being a lurker at an event, being a volunteer will have people give you TASKS you can do to keep you directed. AND you're still meeting and hanging out with amazing people!

dog ambivalents unite!!!!

i found your musings on pushing buttons really interesting. there was a while where my working definition for a video game was 'pushing buttons' (idk if i believe that anymore but)

BITCH YOU CHANGED YOUR USERNAME i read this and didn't even realize it was you LMFAO

i think a lot about how Phantom of the Paradise had to be heavily edited due to a copyright dispute and even in its mangled state it's still literally the Best Movie Ever. sometimes i mourn what could have been, but reading this makes me determined to not do that anymore

Make things!! You have nothing to lose but your excuses!!! ❤

Hey, like I said, these things are non-linear, and I know that from experience. Sometimes a fallow period is needed! :) I hope the energy is refilled eventually!

This reminds me of a Q&A video Bill Wurtz once did where he addressed questions of what tools he used with something to the effect of "I'm not going to tell you, so that you're motivated to create with the tools that YOU have on hand". That sticks with me....I'm always curious about people's processes but I get that sometimes the questions we ask to talk about these things are reductive. We could be way better question-askers!

preach!!!!!

Yes to all of this!!!!!

Also this just made me remember that there were a couple manifestos back in the first jam that I liked so much I wrote them up and put them on my wall 😭😭 Hooray for the inspiration loop!

Thank you for your writing, and submitting it to Manifesto Jam despite your reservations! I think it's very easy to get discouraged if you work hard on something and it doesn't get recognition. But from my own observations, not having people see your work is as much (if not more) dependent upon luck-of-the-draw than it ever is about craft or "talent" as you mentioned. The illusion of meritocracy runs deep!

What's helped me a lot is whatever project I'm working on, it has an element that delights me intrinsically, so that even if the finished product amounts to nothing, I still was able to get joy out of it. I think it also just takes patience and recognition that growth to develop your art doesn't happen linearly. Your line about having a period of inactivity really spoke to me, I definitely experienced that during the pandemic!

And hey, I don't think there's anything wrong with "aping themes" as you put it :) The phrase "Fake it 'til you make it" is quite pat but I think there's some truth there. Definitely when I've been at my most experimental and trying to push my boundaries, I've felt like I was in over my head or "too stupid" to explore something. But it pays off if you stick with it!

Thanks!

hold up i think this game might be good

thank you IAN! big praise coming from the author of the best manifesto ^^

i do have lots of fun in situations where i have to puzzle out rules...but it can be annoying sometimes. kindred spirits for reading rulebooks

always and forever!!!!

Thank you so much, Brandon! Glad to see you're still kickin'! I've always got the Bitsyfolk Rap playing in my head and thinking fondly on PixelPop memories!

:)

ty cecile!

some crimes can never be forgiven

 yep yep yep also GREAT font choice

And it is, it is, a glorious thing to be a pirate queen~ SHE IS, hurrah for the piraaaate queeeeen!

HOORAY great manifesto!!!

Hell yeah!!!!!!!

:eboy: thank you sean!

Yay, thank you!

Thank you so much! :eboy: