(en) Blank Man's Land
It’s been two (or three?) months since the lockdown started, and people are already going outside. Those who aren’t are spending their time productively at home. Me? I do nothing but games, since I have no hobbies. Really sad…
But then I remembered that I am (was?) also a programmer. I suddenly took it upon myself to spend my stay-at-home time building a game.
It was always my dream of building a mystery visual-novel style point-and-click game. Kinda like Danganronpa, but without any of the 3D stuff (as I’m pretty sure that’s beyond my abilities). Thus, I tried creating a basic event sequence and message display system, and then the click system, yada yada.
I’ve experimented with the engine and found that it’s pretty much doable..
But now comes the hard part. Actually, I have no idea what my game is about. What the story is, what will the player do… I just couldn’t think up of anything.
This reminds me of the fact that I’m not a conceptor, but just an executor. A cog in the machine of somebody’s design. Intellectual property is more expensive than human labor because not everyone can think.
I wish I have the capacity to generate ideas instead of just realizing them. Well, probably only geniuses can create a game from scratch to finish by their own lonesome anyway. Which is a roundabout way of saying that I wish I had friends I can build this game with. Pretty sure no one in my immediate group of friends share my interest, though.