Last night I submitted my game, Barony, to the IGF to be judged alongside all the other up and coming indie games in the 2015 competition and frankly, I am now scared as fuck.

Over the past few weeks my team and I have been working on producing a new demo and I think we've managed to accomplish some really good things, but the game is still in alpha and I just don't know how I feel about the game at all anymore.

So for the sake of my sanity: would somebody please just tell me straight whether or not I've just wasted $100 on a submission fee for something I am way out of my league in? I mean, honestly, I can name more than one game from you guys that I would be embarrassed to even try competing against right now. In fact, if I can be even more honest: I don't even feel comfortable having had my game in open alpha for six months. I feel like people have gotten a bad taste of something I never wanted tasted in the first place.

Somebody tell me I'm not crazy.