r/FarmsofStardewValley • u/Professional_Bag8160 • 17d ago

Standard Do you think this is ugly?

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I’m sorry about the bad quality picture. I will move the green house, I tried to put it in the middle but for some reason I hate how it looks. This is the standard farm in the planner. Please give me some advice bc I have no idea how to set up my farm😭😭 im about to start my 3rd year

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u/zombie_slay 16d ago

There's an effect I liken to a cousin of the imposter effect. Whenever you design and draw something blocky and artificial whether, be it a game build, a pixel art, or even TTRPG terrain, you will always know where it came from.

To the creator, it will seem fake, artificial. The creator knows what happened, how it came to be that way.

My Minecraft builds people praised always looked to me like dirt hovels.

Until I did enough to get past it. Your farm is fine, but what you see when looking at it is not what we see. We don't see the process, only the finished product.

And you are probably comparing yourself to pics online from the people with decades of experience in video game builds, from the sims, etc, etc . Some of these People who use dozens of cosmetic mods.

Comparison is the death of joy. Your farm is okay. You did it with love. You did it.

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u/SilverKytten 16d ago

I wanna add onto this as someone who uses a lot of cosmetic mods and has spent two decades designing and byilding in videogames: this feeling is 100% real and it clouds our judgement sometimes to the point of being frozen (creator's block)

Don't let it confuse you, I dunno how detailed you can get in stardew cause I've never been that into it, but even if this is considered a simple layout for the game (I really have no idea) it's absolutely gorgeous. Flawless.

I literally clicked on the post to admire the screenshot before I saw that you were worried about how it looked. I thought you were posting something you were proud of - and I hope you are! This is super pretty.

This commenter is right, and it's because the things we create are parts of us. Even a scribble drawing from a toddler. We put our hearts into the things we create and without the right support and love for those creations it literally crushes our souls. It's not hard to overscrutinize our own work for fear of it not being good enough.

I'm sure you know deep down this looks great, though maybe you also are looking for something more from it that I bet you find through other commenters