One more post about Idea Guys
So I've been talking about Idea Guys lately, which if you've missed all the posts about them, it's a brand of person who "has an idea" and wants everyone around them to make that video game from their idea.
I am a self professed Ideas Guy. Not because I WANT to be, but because of my extreme lack of skill. I can really only do one thing, and that's write. I did, in fact, write a game. I wrote the first few chapters of a script, and the bones of the entire game, out in a document, for a game I'd love to eventually make. I've actually done this multiple times, for multiple games, but this one specifically was an Ogre Battle inspired RPG I'd love to make some day.
So I have that all written out, and I post about it. Someone tells me "sounds like you're not an ideas guy, but just a writer?" and this is interesting. But I will argue, no, I still am. The concept of the Ideas Guy, usually is some dude who gives a sentence description where thyy're just mashing other concepts together. The Ideas Guy taken to its extreme, I think, can write. Maybe do a few other things, like basic game design (I think I'm good with concepting game design and level design, at least). But they can only do it for their idea.
I don't know if I'd be able to write someone else's story for them lol. Would I have that same drive? If there was ANOTHER ideas guy and I was hired to write their story about an ancient evil and a band of heroes, and they have plans for the characters and they just want me to write dialogue (I'm very good at writing fun dialogue), would I be able to? I dunno lmao.
Just somethin' I'm thinking about. I dunno if it really matters anyway, the idea of getting into game development is fucking TERRIFYING? Like yes, I am a good writer. Everyone who reads my stories and my dialogue tells me they love it. But how the fuck do you get into that industry? Especially JUST as a writer, with no other skills??? I have no idea. I was GOING to, ONCE, but the game unfortunately fell apart and ran out of funding pretty quickly lmfao which I think is also a common thing.
Anyways just more thoughts about Idea Guys and game dev. There's always AN Idea Guy. And usually, game dev is just a bunch of people working on someone else's idea in the hope eventually they get to make their's, but they probably never will~
I wrote this a year ago, intending to come back and write a nicer version later... but uh-oh! I'm not sure that's happening, at least not on this site!
So for now, have this post where I talk about idea guys. Is it relevant to Liz's original post? no idea, hope it is in fact helpful though x3