"Marketing" is too glib a term for it, and is a field relying on brute force more than insight, which is the magician's domain (at 40 you can see the Amygdalas.) You do not have the luxuries of arrogance or cynicism. Your work is your soul entwined with the spells which carry it into the world.
"In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy." That can be art โ the dream and the glimpse that brings hope and excitement. Can you make such a thing? Can you surround it in such draperies that the medium in which your "work" is suspended gives rise to its own pleasures?
Yet, understanding art, desire, the human eye and the human heart, do you have the ability to create your own phenomena, at your own scale, which has embedded within it a feeling that draws one to return, and which seems like a missing piece of the world, newly discovered?
"Nintendo," "PlayStation," etc were money and clout directed towards more than the production of novel devices and products, but towards far-reaching cultural phenomena in which one participated by buying the device and the software paired with it. You do not have the money and clout to do the same.
Correct notions here. What are you making / who are your cohorts and competition / in what ways can you create the image of yours and like works as, collectively, a kind of cultural destination rather than lonely executables in someone's launcher. There is no single template to follow.
The intersection of art, which is "something," and money, which is "anti-something," requires strategies to prevent them from obliterating each other.
Phenomena are conjured as protective masks to preserve, contextualize, and transmit the "something" into spaces hostile to its "something"-ness.
the sink is right there
You have 0 Moneys and 99 Golds
In this scenario, what is the "Xbox platform" other than Game Pass? What pulls anyone away from Steam and onto the Microsoft Store? Who, among PC users and users of Nintendo/Sony console platforms, would care?
you are not riffing on the world, you are riffing on riffs. there is no world.
whole milk in the Freestyle machine
Wouldn't give a fuck if my soul was inside a tiny wooden doll. I'd be doing the same shit and feeling great about it.
wiBArm
PC-88 1986
Like Thexder, in that you're a robot guy that can transform into a jet, except it's also an RPG, except it also blends sidescrolling combat with faux-3D exploration that has a weird, distinct look.
Zero4 Champ RR-Z
Super Famicom, 1995
Drag racing life sim unfolds to reveal a surprising number of side modes and minigames. The expansive unwieldiness of the total package built around "shifting gears while driving in a straight line" is its charm.
add crouton powder to increase bread derived neurotrophic factor
free mini-zine hot off the presses hunktears.itch.io/liber-49
Campbell's Chunky +Energy
Thick Cut Beef, Potato, Caffeine, Taurine
Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iJYv...
Looks like a pamphlet scan of a monochrome blue game screenshot. A little apple man in a room with 2 clocks and an empty throne. In game text says โLooks like no oneโs here.โ
A picture that looks like a scuffed up printed page. An image is bordered by yellow me black lines. Inside is a game sceeenshot: a plain room containing a weird smiley face character and a solid black character extending an arm towards it. An italicized caption under it says: Garden2โs hi-rez graphics mode is stunning.
panel 1: guy rushing in says "MY FAMICOM CARTS!! mouse is crushing them with a hammer. panel 2: guy, gathering cart pieces, says " how could you, these are irreplaceable." mouse says " dead world" panel 3: mouse says: artifacts of the dead world will weaken us panel 4: guy shouts " hey! " as mouse knocks over world of nintendo display kiosk. mouse says: I'm growing stronger.
A plain yellow room with a door. A pink dinosaur talks to a figure with a blue body and a head that looks like a drawing of a ghost. A dialog box says โI DO NOT LIKE THE WAR.โ
