Last night I kept thinking about Earth’s Cry and wondering if it would even be fun. If people would bother playing it more than 3 turns. What would their motivation be? Why would you try to build out this floating jungle?

To be honest, I was doubting all my concepts and decisions. I kept feeling that an overhaul was necessary. In fact, at one point it even seemed attractive. How beautiful would it be to clear out all this existing code and start fresh. With better ideas!

Now this isn’t the first time my mind is plagued by this “many-doubts monster”. I’ve listened to it quite a few times over the last years. If you would only know through how many incarnations Earth’s Cry already went through, then you know I love to start over.

But lately I’ve been refusing.

This morning I refuse again to start throwing things around. This morning I will open up Aseprite. And just continue the task I assigned myself. And after I finish that task, I will do the next task. And then the next task. I will follow the plan. Trust the process. And then slowly the answers to my doubts will become obvious. Either there was never a problem, or the problem has now transformed itself to become a simple choice.

Just make some trees.