You Don't Have to Publish That Thing

On the matter of the blorbos in your head, here's a piece of advice you might want to follow or disregard completely: you don't have to let them out. Let's say you want to make a game. You want to write a book. You have your OCs you love dearly1, but everything you have in mind mostly exists right there. I'm a firm believer that if you just keep on polishing an idea forever no one will ever see it, and that sucks; lately I've come to think a bit differently and question the why. I've made quite a few games in my lifetime, written some stories, came up with plenty of fiction. A good chunk of what I've done has an unpleasant association with it: the productivity mindset that made me release them by cutting corners where I thought it made sense. I'm proud of this skill of mine, but too much of it leads to never caring enough for what you believe in, and that sucks a lot more than never releasing the thing. It's why I'm so burnt out from game dev (together with a number of reasons I won't…