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Support This Manifesto<br>Made for Manifesto Jam 2026. Please consider buying my other games to support my work!<br>If you enjoyed this Manifesto, some others from the 2026 Jam touch on similar themes! I am still reading through them but I recommend:<br>SHUT UP ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU HATE MAKING GAMES<br>ARTISANAL GRUEL<br>gameplay never mattered<br>I also recommend checking out droqen's beautiful The End of Gameplay, and Nathalie Lawhead's individualism in the dead-internet age.
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Marshall Hiatt (Jackledead)50 minutes ago<br>Lifechanging. Encouraged me to post a thing I’ve been holding on to.
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Leaky_Sponge1 hour ago<br>Mannnnn I just wanna fun games that everyone enjoys do I really need to think about my indivdualism every time I add an element to my game? Though... I did walk into Manifesto Jam and wondered why are people making manifestos...
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natalieintheskye1 hour ago<br>except now i really want to buy your game! always good to see other creators who still hold the strict old school indie mindset, i think im the only one who does a lot of the time
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Chalchala2 hours ago<br>Not with that attitude
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HareBrainedMage3 hours ago(+2)<br>This is an absolute treasure. All of it. Especially the FAQ section.<br>However, that being said I strongly disagree with point number 4. You SHOULD read gardening magazines for tips on making video games.
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visualstudiesworkshop3 hours ago(+1)<br>hell yeah, this is good
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systemhavoc4 hours ago<br>Weird way to say that hobbies are good.
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fredg14 hours ago(+1)<br>Typo at 6. , 3rd paragraph<br>"If we stop making things people because will not buy them,"<br>Could probably claim this is intentional, and part of this being a shitty game not made for money, but... like... c'mon... be honest... it's a typo...
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Ilya5 hours ago<br>I'm free.... I'm finally free. Thank you for this, maybe this is oversharing but RN i needed to hear this, and this was the perfect wake up brick to throw at me.
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UltimateWalrus9 hours ago(+7)<br>“Players who are playing your game are trespassing in the garden of an angry god, who does not care for their presence and acts with no logic or forewarning.“<br>i’m always saying this, good to know there are like minded folks out there
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ThisGooch9 hours ago(+1)<br>Love this.
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Sirou10 hours ago<br>I feel so free
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Murkling11 hours ago(+2)<br>Some banger lines in here. Bravo.
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MOD42 Studio11 hours ago(+1)(-1)<br>🤣 Seriously, there're some important thoughts.
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Kastel13 hours ago(+1)<br>Yep, I agree with this.
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Bad Piggy13 hours ago(+3)(-1)<br>Absolutely hilarious read. Agree with pretty much all of it.<br>That said, I sorta disagree with point 4<br>( I can't blender so I won't be making a 3D asset flip game to explain my point )<br>I most definitely agree that you really should do whatever the fuck you like, but I don't think it also necessitates ignoring genuinely good design advice imo<br>Then again, seeing as though no one will buy my game, I may as well not add coyote time to my platformer and allow it to be a little jank and be slightly unresponsive because why the frik not kek.
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HC-PinGviini5 hours ago(+2)(-1)<br>Luckily you don't need to know how to use Blender to do a 3D asset flip game.
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felurx5 hours ago(+1)<br>I'm not sure if the author agrees but I think the point is that you don't have to. If you enjoy doing things that are considered "good design" (whatever that means (to you) (this sounds rude but isn't intended to sound rude)), by all means do them, because do whatever the heck you want. But you shouldn't feel like you have to, because do whatever the heck you want to.
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Hanamigi13 hours ago(+2)<br>I wanna be 20 again and live like this. Good read. Thanks.
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773tk14 hours ago(+4)<br>truth nuclear bomb
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Symmetry Break Studio15 hours ago(+2)<br>If I buy my videogame, does that count as no-one buying my videogame? 👀<br>An important and freeing read, thank you.
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turkeydonkey15 hours ago(+2)
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Wypok Games15 hours ago (2 edits) (+4)(-3)<br>I made almost $2.00 USD on itch.io by selling my crappy game, so unfortunately I had to stop reading the manifesto after the first sentence. 🙁
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Ernst-Jan van Melle15 hours ago(+1)<br>Important and significant
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@goshki15 hours ago(+1)<br>I agree with everything you say!<br>Funnily enough, many of your points constituted for a base of my own manifesto for the jam but ultimately went down a completely different path that felt...