I’m planning to work in Unity, but I’ve been spending a lot of time working with HaxeFlixel recently\u00a0and I may have to go that route instead…<\/p>\n
My goal this jam\u00a0is to stop trying so damned hard<\/strong><\/p>\n In recent years\u00a0I’ve found myself spending entirely too much time concerning myself with “what if” situations rather than working<\/strong>. When I actually get to work I’m very productive, but I spend the majority of my time thinking about alternative solutions. I have\u00a0to try\u00a0break that cycle.<\/p>\n Let’s improvise<\/b><\/p>\n I participated in a graphics design workshop last month. We were taught the basics of shaders, and then given an hour to play around on http:\/\/shadertoy.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0encouraged to improvise. Instead of visualizing a desired outcome and trying to reverse-engineer the appropriate code, we used random inputs and scaled\u00a0parameters until they produced\u00a0something\u00a0interesting<\/strong>. Only after finding that interesting thing were we encouraged to fine-tune our work.<\/p>\n The results were fantastic. I stopped second-guessing myself. I stopped trying to predict the outcome before committing to it. I embraced the unknown. Nothing felt risky because no outcome, good or bad,\u00a0was going to be taken personally. I was free to\u00a0play<\/strong>.<\/p>","time":"March 31st, 2015 3:31 pm","title":"Let\u2019s play \u2013 I\u2019m in"}