An excellent article by Zak, Stay Unprofessional. I laughed, when I came to the following paragraph on alienation.
In short: it’s possible for even indie RPG authors to be so professional they aren’t making anything they want to (or have to) live with. In a curious quirk of early 21st century post-hobby production, they have alienated themselves from their labor, with almost no help from the larger capitalist system.
How true.
It’s why I’m only doing the stuff I want for my own games. The amount of effort I put into the Caverns of Slime for *Fight On!* #15 which never got published showed me that every step of the process has to be enjoyable. If it is not, if it is premised on some later reward and recognition, what happens when the reward does not manifest? Time wasted, that’s what.
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Better, but longer: 2020-02-14 Unprofessional.
– Alex Schroeder 2020-02-14 17:20 UTC