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CHAPTER

Video Game Development

"It's much easier to do something really different for consumers than it is to like have that immediately impact the sort of professional world," he says. "I'm so happy that my business isn't reliant on somebody finishing their video game in 16 months, and that's what that world is like." There are some very vocal segment of people out there in the world who think digital artists' work is theft because they're not getting anything when it does create new work,. He adds: "There is some reason to think that all of those sort of notions are in some way true"

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Speaker 2
I have very little interest in the world as it is. I want to like make it really different and it's much easier to do something really different for consumers than it is to like have that immediately impact the sort of professional world, right? And so like for video game people come to me that like well, and like they literally they have to file a center their Photoshop budget because like the video game is already budgeted out and it takes 16 months and I have to wait for them to make their next video game and I'm like, this is bullshit. Right. I'm so happy that my business isn't reliant on somebody finishing their video game in 16 months, you know, and that's what that world is like.
Speaker 6
Right.
Speaker 1
Listen, I thought a lot about this. Like if I'm making a video game, especially if I'm like an independent developer, like an indie dev, I need art, I need assets. Like I want to make like I want to make this world that hasn't been made before. And like normally this actually gets into this part of the conversation. I want to have about art and about the sort of implications of it. You know, I might go and hire an artist or whatever to do that. But now like mid journey, potentially like if I'm using it in that way, I can create assets and backgrounds and scenery or even brainstorm off of that to build something from like that's not the exact thing but a kind of iteration of it. But there is a certain very vocal segment of people out there in the world. And there are people who are artists who are, you know, digital artists or who are working artists today or even people who are doing fine art that's like hanging in galleries and they're like, one, this is theft because it's using our work. It's using work that is out there that is available to see as inspiration for these works. And two, it's like they're not getting anything when it does create new work, not only is it making their jobs more sort of obsolete, but it's also like doing it on the backs of all of their work. It's not a non compelling argument. There is some reason to think that all of those sort of notions are in some way true. Like what's your take on that?

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