RPGMemes

Ever seen Mateusz Skutnik's quote/conversation on the importance of drawing? Probably not because it's just a lore entry from a niche point & click adventure game he made that I love, but here, I think it's to your taste:

• The importance of drawing.

• Yes?

• This is one of the primary rules of exploration. Why?

• You see, drawing lets you see things. It lets you slow down, focus, tune into the surroundings. See details you'd never notice otherwise.

• But... Taking pictures and three dimensional scans of locations lets you archive everything.

• Archive, yes. All those thousands of archived pictures gathering proverbial dust on surveillance data discs, not seen by anyone since the day they were created. Taking photographs is the opposite of drawing. It forces you to stop looking at the object, puts a literal barrier between you and the thing you want to see. You take a picture and move on.

• But... The amount of data saved is unquestionably of greater value.

• I don't care about data. If it were data we're after, we would just tap into the subbot route-mapping system. We're looking for the human touch. Human hand in the sea of silent data. I want someone to tell me: Look at this, I found it and it's so important I decided to spend my time drawing it. Nothing that can be done instantaneously has any value.