{"id":717,"date":"2025-04-01T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2025-04-01T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:53:43","slug":"why-tim-cain-needs-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Why Tim Cain Needs Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40MarginalNonHermit%3A3%2Fwhy-tim-cain-needs-entrepreneurs%3A0?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Responding to an interesting but occasionally misguided video by Tim Cain, called &#8220;Do Devs Know What Gamers Want?&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bA-P3p7PdEc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bA-P3p7PdEc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Tim makes some good points about how some of the feedback game developers get can be vague, open to multiple interpretations, and\/or contradictory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Get a copy of my outline for this video <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/economics-of-game-development.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/why-tim-cain-needs-entrepreneurs:0?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XUIn5T1qLvk\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/051TW999K080\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">What we discover if we look a bit deeper is that Tim is missing the perspective of an entrepreneur, and we shouldn&#8217;t blame him too much, since even a lot of professional economists grossly understate the importance of entrepreneurship. (Keynesians and MMTers, I&#8217;m looking at you.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">For a very basic crash course on economics including entrepreneurship, I recommend Per Bylund&#8217;s book &#8220;How to Think about the Economy: A Primer,&#8221; available here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/how-think-about-economy-primer\">https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/how-think-about-economy-primer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Plenty of additional writing by Per is available here, including deeper explanations about entrepreneurship:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/profile\/bylund\">https:\/\/mises.org\/profile\/bylund<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Anyway, one of the basic economic concepts that applies to entrepreneurship is &#8220;demonstrated preferences versus stated preferences.&#8221; It is by examining game production with this concept in mind that we can find that game developers actually know quite a bit more about what gamers want than Tim Cain believes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In this video, I examine game production through an entrepreneurial lens, show some examples where these principles were applied successfully, and provide a few thoughts on how to apply them more widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music is &#8220;Moribund World,&#8221; from the Fallout soundtrack, composed by Mark Morgan!<br>If you like role-playing games and have never tried the early Fallout games, give them a look!<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/game\/fallout\">https:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/game\/fallout<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And, if you&#8217;d like to check out my debut novel, &#8220;Pursuit of the Heliotrope,&#8221; it releases on April 7, 2025!<br><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/824ECce\">https:\/\/a.co\/d\/824ECce<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to an interesting but occasionally misguided video by Tim Cain, called &#8220;Do Devs Know What Gamers Want?&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bA-P3p7PdEc Tim makes some good points about how some of the feedback game developers get can be vague, open to multiple interpretations, and\/or contradictory. 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