Another game developer might be able to articulate problems that your average player can’t, but their understanding of the development process may cause them to miss the forest for the trees, obsessing about minutiae that most players won’t notice. This becomes even worse if the developer is a friend or someone from your social circle, since it adds a layer of sympathy that the honesty must cut through. I’ve often felt the temptation to suggest to another indie developer that they fix this or that small problem when something more fundamental was the real problem. It can be hard to tell
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