I believe it sums up my views on the subject of game development and ideas.
This guy, obviously frustrated, says: "Most of those "lousy" programmers are the ones making games."
Indeed. Yet I was talking specifically about the guys who can code but have no capacity in dame design.
Then he goes on: "You could have the best idea but if you can't make it then it's worthless. Where as a programmer can have a decent idea and turn it into a game, which makes it worth more than your greatest idea. "
And what happens when the programmer DOES NOT have any ideas? Let's face it, there are millions of programmers around the world, and a huge part of them are involved in game development, yet not many of them make their own games. Have you asked yourself why?
Of course, there are people who can both code and generate awesome ideas. I envy them, as I can not code.
As I read trhough his post, I can't help but notice that things start heating up: "The first question on my mind is always. If you are so motivated then why haven't you bothered to learn more of the skills involved with making games."
Now, now. One can be motivated to do one thing, but not do other things, even if those other things can eventually lead him to the first thing.
I don't see anything wrong with that. I don't mean to sound haughty or arrogant, but where was this guy until I found him? How many games has he made? Zero. Now he is making one. There's a difference between one and zero.
I don't like the attitude "you wanna make games, you gotta learn to code!". Meh. It's okay for different people to have different skills and to cooperate to achieve something.
What if Varg Vikernes said: "You wanna make music - you gotta learn to play guitar, piano, drums and bass guitar"? Because this guy know how to play a lot of instruments. Yet 99% of the people in music bands play one instrument.
"If you truly want to make games then get off your backside (metaphorically) and start learning one or some of the skills involved. "- he says.
Or we could say: if you truly want to make games, develope a decent idea, go find someone who can code, make him stick with you until succesful release. Bam. You're a game designer. Works too, doesn't it?
>Out of all the the roles in game development the one with the least demand by an utterly massive amount, is the ideas guy.
it might seem like it, but I personally believe this is not so.
If the programmer can BOTH code and has nice, thought-out ideas - HE IS THE IDEA GUY.
I do not know who you are, probably you are good at making games solo. But take my word for it there are tons upon tons of guys out there who have no fucking clue what to do with their coding skills. They need someone with a real, thought-out, working idea to do something.
Believe it, I've seen this type of people in almost every field. People who are good in their field of expertise but do not have a knack for business, or can't produce ideas.
Take artists for example. Go to deviantart and look at all those people drawing all kinds of shit - kittens, elves, orcs, cities, women, naked women. None of those people ever makes it to any decent art gallery. Why? Because their art is generic. Shallow. It conveys nothing and makes you feel absolutely nothing when you look at it. Well drawn, yes. But nothing beyond that.
>You have the same attitude I see out of many ideas guys. People with no experience expecting everyone else to do the heavy lifting while they get to to all the fun parts. It doesn't help that you go on to devalue the skills of the others that you seek with statements like "lousy programmers".
Easy, buddy. I am as lousy as those programmers, just in my own way.
Apart from the obvious butt damage, his post was a quality read, for which I thank him.
> But in the end you have just as much experience in those fields as you do actual game design. Which is zero.
Now all those comments just reek of some defeatist attitude. It's like you're implying that I will fail. But why? Why are you even doing this?
I'm having fun, I'm doing something new, I'm progressing and every day I see the results of my work. Even if I fail, I won't be brought down.
You know, I was hearing stuff like this when I went to a forum to ask for advice on how to properly write my report to the police regarding a recent assault on me by a couple of freaks.
I was recieving literally dozens of comments like "you gonna fail, the police doesnt care", "you gonna go to jail for excessive self-defence", "they're gonna pay the attorney and your case will be dissmissed". Amongst all this bullshit there was one guy who turned out to be a detective and he really helped me to file my report to the police, told me how to properly interact with the investigators, what to say, where to take copies of my report, how to properly file a complaint to the procurator and so on.
In the end, the investigator got fucked by her superiors for being careless enough with my reports, the fags who attacked me were found and one of them was sentenced in the end.
"Hurrr durrr you have no connections, nobody's gonna do shit about your case, blah blah". If I listened to all those people, where would I be now?
If I listened to all those who said that I first need to code and need a fuckton of money in order to hire coders, where would I be now?
>If we make money I'll take a substantial amount of the profit. You do all the hard, frustrating stuff. I'll do all the fun, stress free stuff. Have we got a deal?"
If I am only good for doing that stressful stuff, and you're good at doing the fun stuff (designing, managing the team, promoting the game, setting up a company aww so fun and easy!) then sure, why not?
There are people who work hard manual labor for minimal wages, they're being basically told "You work hard for me, I pay you 1/100th of what your work is really worth, and you are gonna be ok with it". And they do it. Why do they do it, instead of starting their own business and building a factory?
All in all, I think you this guy thinks too much, and does too little.
Besides, I have experience in a couple of unrelated business fields, and I can say, that thinking too much and doing too little isn't going to make you really successful.
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