I like Jonathan Blow. His idea about innovative and creative games fascinates me. I always follow his articles, interviews, and watch his lectures at Youtube. However, I was surprised when I read the latest interview at Indie Games Weblog. I didn’t  expect that he didn’t like the idea of making money (from making game). As quoted from GameHelper website:

Among indies there is some kind of desire to be more like bigger companies, to be “professional” about making games.  Owning a business and making money and having business cards is all part of that.  But if you really care about games, it’s a huge mistake, and being “professional” will only hurt your work and cause it to be mediocre. Business is, inherently, a corruptive influence on everything that is non-business.

😯 I have to disagree with this one.

Many people, including highly trained brain person like Dr. Kawashima, thinks that money is the root of evil 👿 By having more money, you will become more evil and less human 👿 👿 Avoid dealing with a large amount of money, it’s dangerous. That’s what they think about money.

I believe that money is not the root of evil. It is the lack of money that could cause people do bad things. And so does greediness. There are always good and bad people, no matter how much money they have.

I don’t think that the passion in gaming will be loss or degraded once you decided to be a ‘professional’ (by making money). In fact, good and big business needs big passion to survive this high competition. Try to read more business books or biography of successful businesspeople.

I once read Trump 101: The Way to Success, and guess what is the first and the most important advice that he gave? Have passion. Don’t waste your life on work you don’t love. Quoted from his book, this is what Mr. Trump thinks about passion:

Passion is absolutely necessary to achieve any kind of long-lasting success. I know this from my experience. If you don’t have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre.

Jon Blow thinks that adding business into passion in game will produce mediocre game while Trump thinks that without passion, any work that you do will be mediocre.

I trust Trump 😎