[checkyoursudo]

I am in the camp of "if a game is fun then I don't care what it looks like" but also of the "I could not possibly publish a piece of art that looks like shit" personality type. IOW, I generally demand more perfection of myself than I would ever require of someone else. So I think I feel where you are coming from. :)

[intelVISA]

It's genuinely not great, mostly placeholder stuff to convey aesthetic & mechanics so I can continue coding. I always toy with just bankrolling a skilled 3D artist to craft all the pieces to spec but then it becomes a quandary: is it really 'my' game at that point?

[checkyoursudo]

Consider that you don't have to create the universe from the beginning to make something from scratch (Sagan). If the art is work-for-hire and you own all the rights, then I think the game is truly yours. Just like most of us don't write compilers or hand-make all the computer components ourselves. I didn't even build my own chair or desk! :)

Well, I sort of did build my own chair and desk, since they come from Ikea.