Captain's log, supplement
Over the past few years I've played a lot of video games. I've also had a lot of ideas for video games. These have mostly been scribbled down in notebooks, buried in an old LJ post or just kept in my head and forgotten. I have a similar relationship with ideas for stories, so this has never particularly bothered me.
A couple of months ago however I started reading Three Hundred Mechanics (essentially a blog by some guy who got annoyed with the lack of originality in the games industry and decided to come up with 300 original game mechanics to prove that it was still possible to come up with original game ideas). This set wheels and cogs within my brain whirring and made me realise that this is actually something that really interests me.
So, I've come to the decision that regardless of whatever else I fail to do with my life, I'm damn well going to make a video game at some point.
To that end I decided to get a place to put all my ideas down together, rather than sticking with the 'scraps of paper and forgetting things' method that I'd been using so far. As is usual for such situations my brain started working out exactly how I could code a big database which would store and display the information contained within exactly to my specifications, but then I decided fuck that, because I already have the NoDDSoc website to finish off, amongst other things and it would take to long. So instead, I decided to ignore the slight flaws LJ has for this sort of thing and just make a second journal.
Now essentially the main purpose of this is for keeping notes for myself, so that I can get these ideas down and get them clearer in my mind, however since I'll be trying to write them in the style of "explaining an idea to someone else" anyway, if people want to have a look, it will be here: orphanedpixels.
Now those of you who know anything about LJ, after spending a moment wondering about the random name, will probably be thinking that that's a community, not a journal. Well yes, you're right. The main reason for this is that I can't be bothered to log out and in again every time I want to post to one of my journals. Since it is a community however, I see no reason not to let people post their own stuff on there if they want.
This will still be my personal journal though (such that it is), so there's no need to add that journal to your friends list unless you're actually interested in stuff to do with designing games.
A couple of months ago however I started reading Three Hundred Mechanics (essentially a blog by some guy who got annoyed with the lack of originality in the games industry and decided to come up with 300 original game mechanics to prove that it was still possible to come up with original game ideas). This set wheels and cogs within my brain whirring and made me realise that this is actually something that really interests me.
So, I've come to the decision that regardless of whatever else I fail to do with my life, I'm damn well going to make a video game at some point.
To that end I decided to get a place to put all my ideas down together, rather than sticking with the 'scraps of paper and forgetting things' method that I'd been using so far. As is usual for such situations my brain started working out exactly how I could code a big database which would store and display the information contained within exactly to my specifications, but then I decided fuck that, because I already have the NoDDSoc website to finish off, amongst other things and it would take to long. So instead, I decided to ignore the slight flaws LJ has for this sort of thing and just make a second journal.
Now essentially the main purpose of this is for keeping notes for myself, so that I can get these ideas down and get them clearer in my mind, however since I'll be trying to write them in the style of "explaining an idea to someone else" anyway, if people want to have a look, it will be here: orphanedpixels.
Now those of you who know anything about LJ, after spending a moment wondering about the random name, will probably be thinking that that's a community, not a journal. Well yes, you're right. The main reason for this is that I can't be bothered to log out and in again every time I want to post to one of my journals. Since it is a community however, I see no reason not to let people post their own stuff on there if they want.
This will still be my personal journal though (such that it is), so there's no need to add that journal to your friends list unless you're actually interested in stuff to do with designing games.