Is it just me or…?
Anybody else get the feeling that somebody is stealing all of their good ideas? Ever since about the fourth grade I have been having some very random creative spark moments where I will get an awesome idea and tell a bunch of people about it, and then somehow two months later it shows up in a movie or a commercial or a video game and someone else is making a million from it. Now I am not saying that every idea I have ever had is an amazing one or that they are all being stolen, but I can remember quite a few (I won’t list them ’cause you won’t believe me anyway.)
The reason I ask is this: I am trying to someday become a game designer. I want to make games for a living, and not the way that every other goddamned Computer Science student in the world does, I am actually doing something about it (as some of you have already noticed from reading my 3D Engine tutorials.) Since I am trying so hard to get to the point of making games for a living, I spend much of my time thinking about different games I could design and how they would play out.
Tonight I was playing x-box and decided to come upstairs to do a little computer work, and just as I shut the game off and started to head to the microwave to grab my newly cooked bowl of beef ramen I got the greatest idea for a game. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a game in the *** genre where you *** for *** in the ***. Sweet idea huh? Exactly… I can’t say a damn word about it. I’m even afraid to type it in a document on my computer ’cause I don’t want another million dollar idea being taken. Especially now that I am actually capable of producing said idea and am not simply a 12 year old grade schooler.
Maybe I’ll tell you what it is when I have copyrighted it and gotten it half done. Maybe… maybe… Maybe not…