The Importance of Play Testing

I generally don't show what I'm working on to anyone until very close to the end. And it's because I'm very easily influenced by people by, you know, if a single person tests it, I'll pay way too much attention to what they do or don't like. Once other people have seen something, it's like a Schrodinger's cat thing; suddenly it collapses into this particular thing that's in the world and it's not really mine anymore. Whereas if nobody's seen it, it's still just this thing that like, maybe it doesn't really exist. It's like almost still semi-imaginary. So yeah, huge empathy for, we, it