Since I don't play as many indies as I should, I hadn't heard of those three you mentioned and looked them up on Steam. I'd say my art skills are probably at an equivalent or maybe higher level than those examples, which is encouraging, though I seem to be really struggling at the moment to find the motivation to make environments that I'm happy with, and environments seem to be what stands out in screenshots, which is a bit of a pain.
Have people commented on my self-promotion? I suppose there are annoying troll comments on this blog, but it's the trauma of having tenaciously malicious stalkers and such years ago that's responsible for most of my posting reluctance. Like the difference between being scared of the world because someone shouted an insult from you across the street once versus waking up in the middle of the night to someone breaking into your house and shooting your pet dog. The latter is more difficult to get over.
I just read through some of my old blog posts, after digging one up to link to. It's embarrassing that I was saying this "I'm starting to get better at posting on Reddit" stuff in one from a year ago! But I've not got much better since then. I also read my 'review' of OMNO, and noted at the end that the dev had a history of working a proper job in the industry, plus he mentioned his partner and children and the value of their support in the credits. I feel that factors like those - the personal life side of things - are way more important than we ever really think of them as being. I'm struggling because I don't have that stable footing, but it's so much harder to fix than technical issues, frustratingly.
Have people commented on my self-promotion? I suppose there are annoying troll comments on this blog, but it's the trauma of having tenaciously malicious stalkers and such years ago that's responsible for most of my posting reluctance. Like the difference between being scared of the world because someone shouted an insult from you across the street once versus waking up in the middle of the night to someone breaking into your house and shooting your pet dog. The latter is more difficult to get over.
I just read through some of my old blog posts, after digging one up to link to. It's embarrassing that I was saying this "I'm starting to get better at posting on Reddit" stuff in one from a year ago! But I've not got much better since then. I also read my 'review' of OMNO, and noted at the end that the dev had a history of working a proper job in the industry, plus he mentioned his partner and children and the value of their support in the credits. I feel that factors like those - the personal life side of things - are way more important than we ever really think of them as being. I'm struggling because I don't have that stable footing, but it's so much harder to fix than technical issues, frustratingly.