Thought of the day: Do you want to live in a world where less and less people actually PLAY games, and instead, more and more people just want to spend some money and then watch some fancy graphics on their TV screens?
Consider this: What if such people (those who are only interested to watch graphics on screen as opposed to PLAYING and interacting with the game) actually join the game development industry and start making such “games”?
Consider this: You love gaming your entire life. You enjoy a game where it engages you with interesting options of play and the entertaining consequences of your interactions within the game world that follows. Such experiences can never be described by just fancy computer graphics alone. You join this industry in the hope of making great interactive entertainment that people can engage in, and have a good time with. And then, you get put in a development team full of people who just want to WATCH fancy graphics in a game. Your programmers think that programming a fancy graphics engine equals making a game, and proceed to do as such. Your artist think that writing elaborate stories and making “super” non-interactive CGI movies equals making a game. What will you do?
What will I do?
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You get together a team of like-minded people and you develop a game ABOUT MAKING A GAME with rewarding gameplay, interactivity and a logical, cohesive environment… You lose the game when you can’t convince your dev crew to stop being graphics whores.
The name of the game? “Nights of the Old Skool”.
Stuff to attract gfx whores:
(1) Non-interactive CGI movies
(2) Extreme dust particle simulation effects that does not add anything to the gameplay.
(3) Realistic water surface simulation effects for more eye candy! Woohoo!