He already did the hard part! Why won’t you lazy fucks implement his great ideas?
It is, in fact, very easy to code a game!
from pygame import game game.load_player() game.load_enemies() game.load_audio() game.run()I’m glad that there’s no micro transactions nor loot boxes.
That’s in
game.load_dlc()we opted not to include that until our game is already beloved on steam.That part comes when they find a publisher.
I’m writing this down. Fuck, my first game!!!
You can’t do that, you’re committing copyright infringement! Change
gametomygamethough, and you’re golden.Ah see I knew it would be too much work after all
Just have ChatGPT do it then. Not so sophisticated AI after all, huh?
The fable of the Chicken and the Pig is used to illustrate the differing levels of commitment from project stakeholders involved in a project. The basic fable runs:
A Pig and a Chicken are walking down the road.
The Chicken says: “Hey Pig, I was thinking we should open a restaurant!”
Pig replies: “Hm, maybe, what would we call it?”
The Chicken responds: “How about ‘ham-n-eggs’?”
The Pig thinks for a moment and says: “No thanks. I’d be committed, but you’d only be involved.”I know it’s not the point, but I love the completely arbitrary bit where they’re walking down a road together, and has absolutely no bearing on anything the happens.
It has one bearing: it puts them in the same location together
Substitute “walking down a road” with: “having dinner at a conference”, “chatting over lattes at the local coffee shop”, or “at a neighborhood cookout” as makes sense.
So this pig is fucking a chicken, and the chicken says…
…stop cluckin around back here! We’ve got customers to serve.
As a software dev who’s participated in a couple of game jams and several group projects,
- I’d say that anyone that claims to be a designer but has no programming experience is typically incompatible with any project
- and it’s due to the disconnect of understanding just how difficult it can be to translate certain design tasks into functional code
It’s like scope creep, but where the demanding client is also your boss/coworker.
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Okay so step one is you’re gonna download Scratch
You have to put
/sin the end, because people in this day and age can no longer recognize sarcasm, probably because we all spend way too much time on the Internet.That’s not sarcasm, that’s satire
Is it? Didn’t know about it until now…
that’s real cringe dude
might I suggest adding
/sat the end,- not sure if that would help as reading that was painful
You absolutely nailed it LOL. Those flashy courses with absurd prices and “funnel techniques” prey on idea-people who are scared of code like whale sharks on plankton.
- I’d say that anyone that claims to be a designer but has no programming experience is typically incompatible with any project
Oh god have had people try this exact thing with me before.
No joke, I once met a guy like this in an indie game developers meetup, and on top of that he was extremely vague about his idea because he told everyone he once managed to get a coder on board and “that rat wanted to take advantage of him and his idea”, literally.
I had a guy whose pitch was “Ok, you’re the president.”
That was the game idea. The whole thing.
I’m picturing Microsoft flight simulator but for politics. I’m in.
Already played saints row 4, next!
So, Democracy?
So, the game is sorting and answering Stimpy’s fan mail?
This sounds a lot like the Sinking Simulator saga…
It’s got some real scientifically based dragons vibes.
DNA based mating system for an MMO battle RPG? Sign me up.
Y’all remember that post about the “science-based dragon MMO” that topped the gaming page of…that other site…? If not, I’ll include the title and image below, because it’s got the same energy as this post.
Dear internet, I’m a 26 year old lady who’s been developing a science-based, 100% dragon MMO for the last two years. I’m finally making my beta-website now, and using my 3D work as a base to create my 50+ concept images. Wish me luck, Reddit; You’ll be the first to see the site when it’s finished.
The comments were surprisingly constructive considering she basically pasted zsphere sketches over a generic background and announced she had been solo developing the most ambitious dragon fucking game the world has ever seen. It’s been 12 years, I wonder how she’s doing?
Not great things, but she did make it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/305960/Dragon_The_Game/
Not sure if the original dev is still involved, but the team has also renamed their company a few times and released (and abandoned in a somewhat broken state) a few other games.
No way! You’re sure it’s the same person from the post? If so, what a wild ride.
As a person that has a lot of ideas and no coding or art knowledge, it sucks because I know I can’t expect someone else to do it for me and I don’t have the time or mental capacity to learn. I guess I can just have AI do it for me now /s
You can have someone else do it for you. You just need the money. Give yourself Executive Producer credits, tell them your vision and pay them to make it happen.
Wait people actually have money? i thought that was a myth
And that’s how we (eventually) got Kingdom of Amalur!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_Studios
Sure would’ve gone a lot smoother if moneybags knew jack about making games though, that’s for sure.
I believe I read this story in detail in “Blood, Sweat, and a Pixels” and it was exceedingly painful.
Same here, I have one idea for a simple 2D game that I would like to make just so it exists. I even got myself Unity (before they stopped being cool) and tried to do some tutorials, but I just don’t have what it takes.
If you still want to make the game despite that, I’d recommend watching some of Pirate Software’s youtube shorts for motivation. He’s got some great gamedev advice.
This one that he uploaded today feels relevant: https://youtube.com/shorts/TBxhiw-Hpxc
I’ll hold myself back from sharing more for now, in case you don’t care. And also because it’s 3 am.
I would volunteer… for money
“Sure, we’ll pay you 2% of the profits”
As long as it is in advance it is okay.
How big did you say your sales projection was?
“Sorry, but we can’t pay in advance, you’ll have to put the work in first”
fuck idea guys. an idea is worth nothing until you actually put the work in
I have this idea of how to solve the world’s energy problem…ok ok just hear me out… nuclear fusion…just need some smart science nerd to figure it out. Any volunteers?
I’m a rat scientist and want to take advantage of your idea.
Meta af
Sharing ideas can definitely be worth something when it leads to something actual original/concrete/useful, but on another level.
Most ideas these “creatives” come up with are neither of those + they are not willing to put in some effort to solidify the idea themselves.
I loved The Onion’s parody of TED Talks where an Idea guy is giving a presentation https://youtu.be/DkGMY63FF3Q?si=BBLyiYPCFSKwgxVY
Put it on GitHub and some tryhard will do a bunch of free work on it. Source: am tryhard
Sure as long as you donate 100,000 USD a year to my bank account.
I once read an article about a guy, whos just doing this. He is selling gaming ideas to studios. But to be fair, he did develop some indie game by him self. He just realized, that he is not good in developing and the hates the whole programming and design part. He only has good ideas.
I’ve had game and software ideas swirling around in my brain, but for the longest time I couldn’t program them. But now, I have enough knowledge to build parts of my grand deckbuilding game idea: An arcade style deckbuilding game with strong meta-progression. It’s playable at superspruce.org.
As for some other ideas, including the simple idea of a weighted shuffle music playlist where each song has its own weight, they are still currently out of reach, mostly due to trying to access the filesystem and whatnot. Better than a month ago, where within the last month I found out how to make the browser play music
Have you considered making your deck building game an mmorpg?
But only if there’s multiple endings and my choices matter.
Cool game but it is missing a lot of features, most importantly tutorial and art.
On the technical side: Do you self-host or in the cloud?
It’s hosted on GitHub, but I really want to self host one day.
What other features are missing? I’m still pretty much a beginner so it can be very tricky to implement things.
If you’re this guy, You’ve gotta be a really good writer and you gotta write it first.
“Ok, I did the overall plot. Who’s doing the dialogue?”
Sounds like you have a small fraction of a game Idea that could be generated by an AI trained on tvtropes.com.
