{"id":739,"date":"2011-04-21T06:54:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T06:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/?p=739"},"modified":"2014-07-29T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:14:37","slug":"quoted-for-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/quoted-for-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Quoted For Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across an article by Derek Yu of <cite>Aquaria<\/cite> and <cite>Spelunky<\/cite> fame, in which he shared a surprisingly insightful grain of enlightenment:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/makegames.tumblr.com\/post\/1136623767\/finishing-a-game\"><p>We\u2019ve all had that feeling about at least one game, comic book, movie, etc., that comes out: \u201cGee, I could do better than this! This is overrated.\u201d But it\u2019s important to take a step back and realize that, hey, they put in the time to finish a project and I haven\u2019t. That\u2019s at least one thing they might be better than me at, and it\u2019s probably why they have the recognition I don\u2019t! If you treat finishing like a skill, rather than simply a step in the process, you can acknowledge not only that it\u2019s something you can get better at, but also what habits and thought processes get in your way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Emphasis added.)<\/p>\n<p>I must admit, looking at it from this perspective does kind of change the way I look at other people&#8217;s projects!<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference_block\">REFERENCES:<\/p>\n<div class=\"references\"><a href=\"http:\/\/makegames.tumblr.com\/post\/1136623767\/finishing-a-game\">&#8220;Finishing a Game&#8221;<\/a> by Derek Yu<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit-blot.com\/aquaria\/\">Aquaria Official Website<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spelunkyworld.com\/\">Spelunky Official Website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across an article by Derek Yu of Aquaria and Spelunky fame, in which he shared a surprisingly insightful grain of enlightenment: We\u2019ve all had that feeling about at least one game, comic book, movie, etc., that comes out: \u201cGee, I could do better than this! This is overrated.\u201d But it\u2019s important to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-indies","category-programming","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}