{"id":6688,"date":"2017-12-02T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/310885"},"modified":"2017-12-02T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T01:29:00","slug":"dream-daddy-co-creator-opens-up-about-the-challenges-of-creating-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/02\/dream-daddy-co-creator-opens-up-about-the-challenges-of-creating-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Daddy co-creator opens up about the challenges of creating in public"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“You can’t ‘solve’ a 15-year-old on the internet hating you. It’s just not a thing you can do.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

–<\/em> Dream Daddy co-creator Leighton Gray, reflecting<\/a>\u00a0on how to deal with the anxieties of releasing a game people are passionate about.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

After helping ship Tacoma<\/em>, Fullbright cofounder Steve Gaynor has started\u00a0a new season of his game dev interview podcast Tone Control by publishing his recent chat<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0Dream Daddy\u00a0<\/em>co-creator Leighton Gray.<\/p>\n

The conversation (recorded this summer during\u00a0the IndieCade\u00a0Festival in Los Angeles)\u00a0is an entertaining listen that helps shed some light on how\u00a0Dream Daddy\u00a0<\/em>came to be, how Gray got into games, and what it’s been like for her\u00a0to see her first publicly-released game achieve some measure of high-profile success.<\/p>\n

“I’m very anxious, I don’t like confrontation, and for a while a lot of people would yell at me on the Internet,” said Gray, explaining that she [along with Dream Daddy\u00a0<\/em>co-creator Vernon Shaw] was caught off-balance by her transition into being something of a public figure. “Not internalizing all of that is really difficult.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

She went on to suggest this sort of thing happens to a lot of devs\u00a0(“it’s a really common thing”)\u00a0and lamented\u00a0that more\u00a0folks in the game industry don’t openly talk about it. Together, she and Gaynor\u00a0explore the notion that an instinctual\u00a0drive\u00a0to “solve” problems can be helpful during game development, but incredibly stressful after you’ve shipped a game and have to deal with your creative work being out in public.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“In the wake of this game, I have realized a lot about myself, and that has been a big part of it,” said Gray. “This experience\u00a0has been really enlightening. I think [making games is]\u00a0kind of what I want to do. I thought I wanted to be an illustrator, and I think I do, but I’m way more passionate about games. And making games.”<\/p>\n

She and Gaynor\u00a0go into much deeper detail in the full episode<\/a>, which is well worth your time. In addition to specific stories about the making of\u00a0Dream Daddy<\/em>, there’s a really good chat\u00a0about metamodernism and its expression through games that was too big to quote but too good to miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“You can’t ‘solve’ a 15-year-old on the internet hating you. It’s just not a thing you can do.” – Dream Daddy co-creator Leighton Gray, reflecting\u00a0on how to deal with the anxieties of releasing a game people are passionate about.\u00a0\u00a0 After helping ship Tacoma, Fullbright cofounder Steve Gaynor has started\u00a0a new season of his game dev […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}