Do I have time? Sure! I’m just lazy about it. But the playthrough isn’t finished, there’s more to cover, and I haven’t worked on it in weeks. Feedback was strongly positive, and I’ve made fifty minutes of video total. For the first ten minute video, I spent a good five or six hours getting everything right. Now, once I committed to doing that, I went the whole nine yards, getting the right software, multiple test runs, experimenting to find the best file format to maximize picture quality without clogging my hard drive, prewriting to plan out what I wanted to cover, and so on.
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In another example, I recently started a Let’s Play and Tutorial video series to teach new players how to play Liberal Crime Squad, an open source game by the guys behind Dwarf Fortress that I serve as the de facto maintainer for. Because even though I wouldn’t normally play a game like that - and I quit playing immediately after the next class - once I got into it, I was in it to win it and my perfectionism kicked in. And I made a nice, pretty cafe, and built a spreadsheet analyzing the economy of the game and determining optimal strategies, and downloaded apps to help me schedule my time, and ended up with the highest score in the class. But like reading books, having someone order me to do it is a fairly decent way of getting me to make that commitment. I avoid persistent online games in general because they are work-ish to me, requiring an ongoing commitment. Recently, Mike Pondsmith, the instructor teaching our game mechanics class, assigned us to play Cafe World on Facebook for five days. I’m sure I’m not the only one who does things like this, because questions about this sort of behavior pattern is all over personality tests. Then, if nobody is lighting a fire under my ass, I tend to get bored and wander away leaving it half-finished. That means I tend to avoid starting new projects, but while I’m working on something, I work hard to make it good. In fact, my love of play, and desire to share this with others, is part of what drives me to make things that others can play with.
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There’s a bit of a qualification in order here, however - I say I’m lazy because I hate work and love play, and spend a fair amount of energy avoiding or procrastinating work in order to play more.