It's unbelievable that people would wait for permission or a AAA hiring committee or whatever to do writing for games

In all seriousness, have you played any put out in the last ten years

Are you kidding me

Just do it, you're probably already better

You don't even need to do some minimalist thing like Twine if you don't want to

Unity with Fungus

RPG Maker with some stock graphic packs, like I did 7(!) years ago

Ren'py with you making friends with a cool artist

These people you see on social media with all their sympathy for your are well-connected insiders who want your favs and your follows

They can't and won't help you

Save yourself

They live in Seattle or Los Angeles or San Francisco

They all know each other

Don't kid yourself

Save yourself

You could ingratiate yourself to them if you are extremely young and good-looking and if you move there, but even that is no guarantee

P.S: If you can afford to do this you already know that, and you aren't reading this

If you *are* reading this, you have to do an *unbelievably difficult thing*

You have to release, essentially on your own, something that is *so good* and *so commercially successful* that *these people* will pretend to have been your friends *all along*

And *then* you have to move to Seattle, Los Angeles or San Francisco and pretend, in a strange way, that you were *always there*

And you think that what I'm saying to you is some kind of hypothetical impossibility intended to illustrate that it is unrealistic and stupid

But I'm not

I know people who did it

I am, with no filter, telling you what you have to do

And I am telling this because, no joke, if you are not up for it, *think of something else to do with your life*.

Because *that is what you have to do*.

*EVEN IF IT MAKES NO SENSE*, and you play AAA games, and you think: This is trash

Believe it or not, that

is what

it takes

So if you *don't want to do it*

*Don't do it*

And yet, even as I say this

I know

You are so young

You don't

Know

Write something that you believe in. No matter how well it does or does not do, you will have been in greater service to truth and beauty and art than ten-thousand times the drivel you would have been paid to be a part of.

The bullshit has never been quieter. Speak from the heart.

Speak from your heart.