“It’s OK to fail. It would be good if young people were taught this instead of having to learn it later in life”
“Every little tiny thing that you do is a step towards scaling that wall, that was terrifying before”
We want to perform well, improvise freely, procrastinate less, publish content. But there are barriers. Confidence is something that you can learn to build over time. Sometimes experience takes care of this. “Whenever my self-confidence levels are low, two things happen: supreme performance anxiety and supreme SUPREME procrastination”
Like, most of the time when someone wants to go do something creatively, wants to do something where they want to try something, maybe wants to change career, they just need someone else to say, “Do it”.
That’s it! That’s all they need. They just need someone to say “It’s OK for you to try that. Go do it”.
So…if you’re waiting…stop it. Go do it. Seriously!
If I didn’t go do it, I wouldn’t be here. If I didn’t go do it, I wouldn’t have my own studio now. If I didn’t go do it, I wouldn’t know any of you.
So go do it. Stop waiting. Don’t wait. It’s not worth it.
We are making good progress on getting my new rig together. The motherboard arrived, and the graphics card is on the way. I still have to make some decisions about RAM, storage, and fans. (Budget? Go all out? Should I get shiny ones with rainbow LEDs?) I’m getting more excited about jumping into Unreal 5 and trying things out — just putting objects together and adding sound to it. For example, you walk up to a sphere and as you get closer the sound is louder. Or the sound changes.
Here’s Thor Hall encouraging beginners like me to give it a try. Someone called him the Mister Rogers of game design and that seems so fitting.
Another thing I’m looking forward to with the new rig is downloading some music software. I’m especially looking forward to this plugin, called “Noctua”. Cameron had the idea to put together a collection of samples, including ones he recorded using a microphone that can “hear” electromagnetic fields (called an EMF microphone). With help from folks at UVI and after a year of work, this collection of samples became an actual software instrument, with ways to modify the sounds and layer them. Cameron’s project is free, and the plugin from UVI required to play it (called UVI Workstation) is free also.
