Interview with Rhys of Eigengrau's Generator
"I suppose that it's a little bit different to other generators in that it's an all-in-one, and the generators feed into each other; for example, one can go carousing in the tavern, and one of the potential events is offending a faction, which is taken from the factions that already exists in the town."
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"When I was writing the generator to start with and it was nearing completion, it suddenly stopped working and I was stumped for weeks. It turned out that my computer had auto corrected an apostrophe to a single quotation mark, which broke the code"
"I am most proud of the Starfinder Monster Builder, probably because it got the biggest response out of anything I've ever done."
"First and foremost, I make character generators for my friend Dave. His characters die left and right in our games. He plays really brave, really red-shirted characters. Suddenly, he needs a new character in the middle of a game and BAM! I've got one for him."
"Often, a desire to 'quickly create a generator and have it done in the next couple of days' devolves into a multi-month long project that seems to drag on endlessly"
"When I see a generator with interesting output (maps, NPCs names, dungeons - anything) I immediately start thinking about how it could be used in a video game. Sometimes it makes me start writing a game."
"Often the generators I like the most are the least popular, and the ones I've given up on and just thrown up because I don't want to work on them anymore go on to be the most popular."
"I like that people find my work cool and useful. And I do like to see the project progressing. It would be nice to get it completed one day..."
"I’m fortunate that podcasts like Terrible Warriors and Role-Playing Public Radio have done great actual play episodes of some of my games, which gives me a fascinating window into what happens when the rubber meets the road"
Competing for the top spot [of painful lessons] is "you are not necessarily representative of the user base". It's a big mistake to assume everyone plays like you do, or needs the things you need, or thinks the same way you think