Space Deer - Buy my book (No. 88)

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This is the oldest strip I still had left in my backlog, I drew it way back in 2023! And it's actually not the first time I share it. The first time was in this issue of Indie Notebook (my other newsletter).

Here's a snippet from it...

Nobody is looking for links to click*

Nobody ever goes on twitter or any social media thinking “I wonder if there’s a nice link that could take me out of here.” I mean, most of everything I came for is already right here. Game dev stuff, peoples’ thoughts on things, art, comics, memes, etc.

Still, whenever I write or make something. Like a comic page or a blog post. What I want to do is copy-paste the link into a tweet, and say ”check out what I made!” and be done with it. I know it’s lame, so what I usually do is I try to spice it up a little by hinting more about what’s on the other side of the link. Even that rarely works though. Not necessarily because it’s a lazy effort from me, but because the effort is wasted on something I don’t actually need people to do. I don’t need people to click on a link - I want them to see what I’ve made. And if they’ve seen my link, they’ve already seen that I made some kind of thing. Then I could just as well have put my creation right there, in that spot on their screen where I already had the opportunity to be, instead of that boring link.

It’s the same in a flesh to flesh conversation. It doesn’t work to ask someone to read your blog post right there and then, it’s too disrupting. Imagine reading a 3 minute blog post while the author is breathing down your neck. What the author should do is tell the story, or talk about their subject.