I'm sure you're all familiar with the term. It's that sinking feeling that, despite your best efforts, the quality of your work will be dragged down by your lowest common denominator.
It's hard to escape- groupthink trends towards being copacetic regardless of cost. You're polling on art direction for gods sake. Surely you understand- even if only intellectually- that this is antithetical. The committee is not going to give you a distinct, compelling vision. It can't.
Even being an outsider, just joining this forum to express a warning about the status quo I understand the social anxiety and pressure. I feel it, I just know how to discard it. Do you?
I for one would love to play something other than a game that feels like a clone made by committee of another game I already like. I'd rather play through this -http://www.flickr.com/photos/donsevilla/629768240/
or this-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ny_doll/643448753/
than another generically pastoral also ran.
Stop throwing out ideas just to see if they stick. Either you have a compelling vision and are compelled to see it to fruition or you should face the reality that you need to find someone else with that vision and support them. Instead of a call for ideas, you should be vetting and grooming an art lead. The role of an art lead is not that of an artist, but rather the person empowered (through virtue of having the vision and the blessing) to tell the other artists yes or no.
It's hard to escape- groupthink trends towards being copacetic regardless of cost. You're polling on art direction for gods sake. Surely you understand- even if only intellectually- that this is antithetical. The committee is not going to give you a distinct, compelling vision. It can't.
Even being an outsider, just joining this forum to express a warning about the status quo I understand the social anxiety and pressure. I feel it, I just know how to discard it. Do you?
I for one would love to play something other than a game that feels like a clone made by committee of another game I already like. I'd rather play through this -http://www.flickr.com/photos/donsevilla/629768240/
or this-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ny_doll/643448753/
than another generically pastoral also ran.
Stop throwing out ideas just to see if they stick. Either you have a compelling vision and are compelled to see it to fruition or you should face the reality that you need to find someone else with that vision and support them. Instead of a call for ideas, you should be vetting and grooming an art lead. The role of an art lead is not that of an artist, but rather the person empowered (through virtue of having the vision and the blessing) to tell the other artists yes or no.