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Ajey’s post got me thinking. And I think the most important thing you can do as a designer, as a Twitter person, or anything, is to constantly push towards creating the world you want to see. Every single thing you do should reflect your vision for the world and for yourself.
And if you don’t know what that vision is yet, everything you do should be working towards better understanding that vision. That’s why I’m at the point now where I realize that I want to run Asian American Studies spaces for game designers. Because I realized that was my vision.
In my ideal world, Asian American studies is a common position from which people can create their games. And it is a position from which I, too, can create games. Before that, it was decolonial worldbuilding, but I find I want to be a bit more niche now.
In my ideal world, I can log onto Twitter, say some stuff about migration or trans nationalism and people will just get it. In my ideal world, when I write games about these things, people get it. And other people are also writing these games.
This exists to some capacity, already, of course. But I want more. I am big in my wanting. I want an entire shift in the way that people see things. I believe I have important ways of looking that I can share. I believe that is why people follow me.
For me, a brand is at once the expansion and compacting of your desires. It is coming to know yourself and the vision you have for the world. And it is committing to creating that world, again and again, day in, day out, doing everything you can to somehow get there.
The people who I admire most on here have this big desire. They know they want more than what currently exists. They believe in the possibility of a better world, and, perhaps, the games that such a world might want or need. They are speculative and imaginative.
If you want to be prominent in whatever capacity, you need to train yourself to speculate and imagine in this way, and then work your ass off every day to actualize this imagining and speculating. And do this by creating space for others to imagine alongside you.
