This.
b/c we make games for our ideas and if we wanted to make $ we would do other things.
never wrote a thing thinking people would like. only thought i want thing and fuckall.
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2015/04/mike_patton_explains_himself_in_illustrated_form.php//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js
Tattered Remains of Tartary 
I am very much like that, but can’t dismiss people who do cater to demand. I don’t make a living off of my creations, so I often don’t even bother sharing them. If I did need to make a living from my creations, I’d have to care what other people think, just as I must care what my employer, clients, and co-workers think when doing my “day job”.
If I was independently secure financially I wouldn’t need to care, either that, or if I really liked being hungry, and wet : )
All of that said, I am so glad that I didn’t pursue a career in commercial art as some of my friends have. They are some of the most miserable people I know, and seem to have lost the ability to actually be creative from having the ideas of people that have money, but no drive to actually make anything constantly pushed into their heads, and their ability to render them used as a means of assessing their validity as artists.
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Shoot. I spend a hefty amount of time checking on my audience. That’s educators, esp in academia. They’re very picky and complex, and I listen hard to them. I have to.
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I think whether one should, or shouldn’t care is a matter of what a given act of expression is intended to do.
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yessir. If you do a thing and you don’t like what you’re doing? it’s just no good to anybody then.
and to play devil’s advocate, the part of the quote that’s missing is “…but I’m Mike Patton, so ymmv.” 😀
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/mikepatton_quote3.jpg is the one that definitely applies to me. I do gaming stuff for the same reasons I do Art, and it’s because I can’t not do it. Once I get something in my head, it’s coming out in some form or fashion.
If someone else likes it, even better, and I may even tweak it for that audience to some extent because I appreciate their enthusiasm over some specific thing. But its still coming out no matter.
I’m also in the same boat as Bryan Alexander , which means the Faculty are always right because. A lot of times it’s just getting them to come around to your way of thinking by convincing them they came up with the idea themselves. Granted they will occasionally have a great idea; stopped clock and all that. 😉
Sorry, rambling, and not even going to delete it.
IN THE EVENT THAT ANYONE FROM WORK IS READING: No, no, I totally don’t mean you. It’s the other ones. You’re good.
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Faculty and upper admin. I work with deans, provosts, presidents, trustees. Plus library and IT heads.
It’s a bit like doing diplomacy in the Holy Roman Empire. Many different constituencies, each with their own style and expectation.
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