Nicholas Kole

@pipequanta @shoomlah this is great

@shoomlah *pats Riven notebook* I know where eeeeevery layer is.

@shoomlah this is when I just keep flattening and duplicating the document

@shoomlah nooooooo

@will_t_kelly you and me both, man!

So fast that he FLIES TOO NEAR THE SUN and... you get the point. Start small, make good art, try often, be excellent to eachother.

@ReaganLodge By the time the spark hit we no longer had the budget for a Michael Bay explosion.

It's like there should be a FABLE about this. I've got it: some guy who runs really slow but wins, and another guy who runs REALLY FAST...

They never made that game. They blew up. In the actual detonating, bankruptcy, not cool kinda way.

The first company I worked for out of school had a *mascot* and the slogan WORLD DOMINATION THROUGH GAMING before they had made a game.

@ReaganLodge A ton of the projects I've worked on seem to fail because someone key wants to make BIG MONEY without having a big (new)idea

@ReaganLodge Like I don't think we should run at MAKE THE LOTR MOVIE TRILOGY without writing the Hobbit to mixed reviews first

And you can't get to the BIG places people who started small eventually got to, if you aren't willing to start small as well, right?

The cart is so far before the horse- you don't get to reap the rewards that risk-takers won in the past without taking your own risks

@ReaganLodge ...that people received for breaking new ground, but without actually breaking and new ground or starting small.

@ReaganLodge For sure! I don't even mean myself to be targeting nostalgic or epic work- just the strong sense of wanting the rewards...

As in YOUR-MEDIA-EMPIRE. Like who leaves a legacy by starting out like "I'M GONNA LEAVE A LEGACY AND THERE WILL BE T-SHIRTS!"

It feels like a lot of us in the various making-things industries have forgotten that you don't get there by running directly at EMPIRE