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Master of this Domain
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2010
I know you have one.
It's very difficult not to have general videogame ideas in this space, cause not only did many of us pick up this whole thing from games, games are also a place that demand this particular role. Slotting in Sexy Enemies for any other type of game opponent is easy to think of and often possible. So I think we've all had those sort of "wouldn't it be neat" types of ideas. Like sure, I'd love a first person stealth game where you broke out of a dark elf prison. A shooter focused on sexy maid guards? Hell yeah. Delmo Gacha? That'd be cool. But if we had the ability to make those happen, we would have at least tried. Games are difficult, yeah. But it's easier than ever to try, it's just that reasonable people understand that some things are just too damn much.
But I know that's not all you've thought of. I know we all have at least one idea kicking around that bugs us not because it could never be done, but because we have this feeling that it could be. If you just knew a little more, or had a different skillset, or had more time to learn, you think it's possible. So it eats at you. It can't leave your head. You think about it, refine it, maybe even take a few stabs but realize that it's just too much. But you don't fail so spectacularly that you can just laugh it off. It's still there. Possible. That which could be, if things were just slightly different.
And it agonizes you.
I wanna hear 'em. Not just because I think that putting the thoughts out there will help exorcize them, but because it's a simple fact that fresh eyes can see things that you can't. Maybe you're obsessing over how to make a sprawling RPG when all you really want to make is a Visual Novel. Maybe the mechanics you want in your game can be accomplished way easier than you think and you don't have to dive deep into engines. Maybe it can be a mod. Hell, it might be a Skyrim mod already, that's more possible than you think. Maybe we can shift the circumstances so that things are slightly different. You never know, and at the very least you have put to text something that had been bouncing around in your head; freeing your mind just a bit. So post! Or don't. You can not, too. That's fine, I won't tell you what to do.
It's very difficult not to have general videogame ideas in this space, cause not only did many of us pick up this whole thing from games, games are also a place that demand this particular role. Slotting in Sexy Enemies for any other type of game opponent is easy to think of and often possible. So I think we've all had those sort of "wouldn't it be neat" types of ideas. Like sure, I'd love a first person stealth game where you broke out of a dark elf prison. A shooter focused on sexy maid guards? Hell yeah. Delmo Gacha? That'd be cool. But if we had the ability to make those happen, we would have at least tried. Games are difficult, yeah. But it's easier than ever to try, it's just that reasonable people understand that some things are just too damn much.
But I know that's not all you've thought of. I know we all have at least one idea kicking around that bugs us not because it could never be done, but because we have this feeling that it could be. If you just knew a little more, or had a different skillset, or had more time to learn, you think it's possible. So it eats at you. It can't leave your head. You think about it, refine it, maybe even take a few stabs but realize that it's just too much. But you don't fail so spectacularly that you can just laugh it off. It's still there. Possible. That which could be, if things were just slightly different.
And it agonizes you.
I wanna hear 'em. Not just because I think that putting the thoughts out there will help exorcize them, but because it's a simple fact that fresh eyes can see things that you can't. Maybe you're obsessing over how to make a sprawling RPG when all you really want to make is a Visual Novel. Maybe the mechanics you want in your game can be accomplished way easier than you think and you don't have to dive deep into engines. Maybe it can be a mod. Hell, it might be a Skyrim mod already, that's more possible than you think. Maybe we can shift the circumstances so that things are slightly different. You never know, and at the very least you have put to text something that had been bouncing around in your head; freeing your mind just a bit. So post! Or don't. You can not, too. That's fine, I won't tell you what to do.