Garry Newman

I found a blog of the game dev who made Garry’s Mod (which I never played) and a game called Rust (never played either). Bunch of interesting posts, quoting this one:

I’d have probably lost interest in Garry’s Mod within a couple of weeks. There was one thing that drove me forward.

It was called HL2World. It had a forum full of people that hated me and hated GMod. They were big fans of another mod called JBMod and were pretty militant about it.

So a lot of my motivation came from lurking their forums. They’d say Garry’s Mod was shit because of some reason, then I’d spend a month fixing that thing. Then I’d stalk the person that made the post to see if they changed their mind.

The more they hated me the more motivation I’d get. People who hate you tell you the truth – they don’t make the best of it – they attack you with every flaw they can find. That’s useful if you want to fix things in a game.