My first thought was, “Have you talked to the Fallout modding community?” They’re huge masochists and love being shit on, even though they create such amazing things and deserve nothing but praise and monetary rewards…
I actually wish this mentality kindof existed for hobby projects (although it doesn’t seem to, but please prove me wrong), like “looking for a programmer for X project to do Y” type posts where us programmers can more easily find projects to participate in (and they can find good people too) that we have a great interest for, rather than hunting sites like up-for-grabs for single feature requests to fulfill or starting completely new projects on our own.
Isn’t that how the open-source community operates?
I tried setting up something like that, back in the half life mod days. Had lots of people submitting help , never got anyone with help offered.
i mean, provided you actually want to put in effort that’s called “being a game designer”, it’s perfectly valid to not write code or create assets.
Asking for and/or expecting unpaid volunteers is most definitely not valid.
If he wants to pay them properly, then I would agree.
Oh god have had people try this exact thing with me before.
I got asked by a team of first timers who have never done any professional coding or design if I wanted to chip in on a competitive MMOFPS they want to make.
That’s not going to happen. Between the rise of cheating, the insane hardware and optimization requirements of an MMOFPS, the general lack of interest in the genre (most have died due to low player counts), and the sheer amount of time and effort involved in designing and balancing the game even after it’s largely feature complete? Forget it, I’m better off buying lottery tickets than hoping for anything to come of that.
He already did the hard part! Why won’t you lazy fucks implement his great ideas?
Just have ChatGPT do it then. Not so sophisticated AI after all, huh?
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 writing this down. Fuck, my first game!!!
You can’t do that, you’re committing copyright infringement! Change
gametomygamethough, and you’re golden.
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.Make sure to add mandatory EGS accounts later.
if date.today() - RELEASE_DATE > timedelta(days=90): try: game.prompt_user_to_connect_3rd_party_account() except PlayerRefusal: sys.exit(0)EGS? Oh, no. We don’t do that here. We’re more along the lines of:
That part comes when they find a publisher.
And sign this NDA and I keep 95% since it was my idea!
MY TOWN IS IN THE NEWS!!!
Yea this just screams VCU student.
Is this guy Tom Segura’s cousin, the inventor?
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.
So, Democracy?
So, the game is sorting and answering Stimpy’s fan mail?
I’m picturing Microsoft flight simulator but for politics. I’m in.
Already played saints row 4, next!
This sounds a lot like the Sinking Simulator saga…
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.
Sure as long as you donate 100,000 USD a year to my bank account.
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.
Put it on GitHub and some tryhard will do a bunch of free work on it. Source: am tryhard
@JPDev Then again, that’s how a few free software games actually work
I can’t think of any FOSS games that would invite an idea guy to drive the project. They’re made of volunteers, sure, but FOSS game teams still expect tangible contributions. Otherwise it’s just another feature request and will get picked up if the team thinks it’s worth it.
More specifically with FOSS projects, whoever puts in the work makes the actual decisions.
Like, if there’s a change that one person wants and the others actively disagree with (and it can’t be made configurable either), then that won’t happen.
But usually, there’s hundreds of features that make sense in principle. And if someone scratches their own itch, i.e. implements the feature that they’re missing, then that obviously won’t be rejected, even if it’s not the most requested feature.So, yeah, such an idea guy would need really good ideas and present them so well, that others selfishly want to implement those ideas (and moreso than all their other ideas).
Such as?
Science-based dragon MMO
It’s been years since the last time that I’ve seen this referenced lol
Is this the current version of that game? is the 100% science lady involved in this?
I don’t know, but that writing is phenomenal.
Except in this case it won’t be open and all profits go to the idea guy
Sounds like most AAA games we where promised but never got
It ws only like a decided ago when I had multiple amazing ideas for games and other software, only to have nearly none when I actually started to do some programming for fun.
I think there’s only one game I would like to try making where I see it may have some success, but the idea is very vague and devil is in the details and execution I guess.
