Tfw you have a great idea for a game but don't know anything at all about coding

>tfw know how to code but no inspiration
Someone give an idea for a small scale game.

Not OP, but not sharing mine because if I can find the story, it will be happening some day.

this is why im conflicted on even posting dev progress on youtube.
a game studio i watch on youtube has been making a game for a couple of years and a hollywood movie stole their design.

>been programming for almost 10 years
>still suck
>been 3D modeling for almost 10 years
>still suck
>been making music for almost 10 years
>still suck
>not an ideas guy at all but when I do have an idea it's out of my reach

It's a weird existence when you've been doing things for so long you feel like a master of them but in reality you suck. I should have just made an emotional pixel game 8 years ago.

take a writing class or research it
stories always have the same messages, you don't need to be original, no one cares
a well executed "just be yourself" is good enough

which hollywood movie?

dune

elaborate

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Dune is tens of years old, I think what happened is the game studio lifted the design from Dune and the Dune movie used the Dune designs.
Post pics.

fpbp
The time is NOW. Focus on the grind, bros
You can rest when you're old and wrinkly

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youtube.com/watch?v=5MalwRdPdO8

Well rather, it's more that right now I have a lot of things and events I want to show, but nothing to tell. It's all disjointed and has no meaning beyond go here/do this -> thing happen in my mind yet. I just need to find that something I want to tell with it, but because I thought of the events first, it's harder to come up with something.

the keys to every good story are buildup and execution. it could be the most mundane bullshit and it would still be harrowing if it was told well

king of the hill is a prime example of this, it's the most mundane day to day slice of life shit in 1990s - early late and mid 2000s texas, yet it manages to be captivating and (mostly) well told.

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Find a medium you can competently use and then make your dream user. You only live once, you might as well try and make that dream a reality.

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In case you think I am talking out my ass here's a perfect example.

I always wanted to draw but everytime I tried it felt like smashing my face into a brickwall. Nothing ever clicked. I thought my ideas would never come true and would only exist in my mind.

But eventually I discovered vector art and started using graphic design programs and bam. I found a way to express my ideas and myself. I have never been happier.

You can be happy too, user. Just keep going and never give up.

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Exactly
Look at battle shonen manga, it's always the same messages and meaning at the end. Friendship, Effort, Victory
But a bad shonen will stumble because of execution flaws

>tfw you went to school for engineering but got pushed into a software developer role

I didn't come to this website to be targeted.

If you love your idea you'll suffer to trials of learning a trade to make it real, or let it die before it was even born.

100% your call.

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It’s an abstract kind of doom

>when you listen to a certain song imagining it's in your videogame during a powerful scene

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Huh?

I know that feel

unexpectedly based

Even of I put in the work I'd have too much social anxiety to show it to anyone
It would die with me

If you don't have a prototype then you don't actually know if you have a great idea.

>Have ideas
>Have experience in coding
>Have experience in graphics
>Have experience in design
>Have experience working in game projects
>Have experience in time managment
>Have experience in making music
>Have experience in sound design
>Have watched 100's of hours of dev tutorials

>Immediately get bored 10 minutes in because I've fried my brain with instant gratification over the last 10 years of vidya, youtube, streams and porn.
Jesus christ I'm a fucking failiure.

At least I have a steady and well paying full-time job for the government.

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>be an idea guy
>go find investors for your idea
>use that money to hire nerds that have the skills to make your idea real
>if product is successful, you get all the credit. The nerds dont
>if product is a failure, no loss to you since it wasnt your money to fund this in the first place

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>tfw when your best attempt at pixel art just looks like quirky earthbound inspired game #27584936

Being the "idea guy" doesn't just mean having good ideas. It's about being able to convey the idea to different people with their own motivations.
>Convince investors it is going to be a hit and they will get a return on their investment
>Convince your developers it's worth making
>Convince your target audience that it's going to be fun
>Convince yourself that it is worth fighting for
The last one is the hardest in my opinion.
That's why "the idea guys" best friend is a hype man, or someone who "gets" you and your idea and can convey it to other people so that they understand.

Probably wasn't a worthwhile game idea anyways, if its not worth overcoming these basic obstacles for.

one of these days someone will make an AI or something similar to do all the grunt work for our ideas. Using computers was above the heads of 90% of people just 30 years ago and look at them now.

>Using computers was above the heads of 90% of people just 30 years ago and look at them now.
Still is, really.

>Using computers was above the heads of 90% of people just 30 years ago and look at them now.
user zoomers are actually the most tech illiterate generation right now

Describe the premise in three words. Assign it a genre. Figure out who would buy it.

If you can't answer these simple ones you're fucked. Don't even bother trying to learn code just go into game design, you'll end up being a monkey for some web app instead.

>hur hur young bad young stoopid
Gen Z are the most likely to succeed in the modern world AND still survive if it collapses, we are literally the master race

>Describe the premise in three words
No more Niggers
>Assign it a genre
FPS
>Figure out who would buy it
Chads
There, simple

You are not OP

It's actually worse now, because zoomers only know private websites for services & touchscreens.
No CLI experience, will never hear about manpages (thank fuck, otherwise they'd want linuxfags to rename 'man' to 'itscomplicated'), will never have to deal with configuring anything, will never understand even the absolute basics of OSI layers, etc etc.

thank you user
I needed to read this

Should I pick software engineering as my college major? My grandparents are somewhat wealthy so money isnt an issue

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Why go to college?

His grandparents are wealthy stop fucking giving him advice he doesn't need it

They will die within the next 10, maybe 15 years when it comes to my grandmother but my grandfather is the one who brings in the money through his pension. After that the money is getting split in four slices. The moment that happens is when my family's safety net vanishes.

>want to be good at drawing
>didn't start learning to draw at age 5 and practice every day
>if I start now I won't be good until I'm like 50
It's not fair

>relying on pensions instead of actual property owned by the family
Sorry bro, you were ngmi to begin with

Yup. Since you're wealthy, admissions don't be a problem either because colleges love old money. You can get into yale, princeton, harvard easy.

Im mexican bro. They are wealthy in the sense that they can afford 6k a year not 75k.

Just like not everyone is equally good at doing a specific thing, not everyone is equally good at having good ideas. Some people are clearly more creative than others, and these are good idea guys. On practice you need momey, connections and social skills to get other people on board with your ideas though.

user...

>Have a shitload of ideas
>Most of them are for games
>Games are the most complicated artistic medium on the planet, near impossible for a single person to excel in
>People who work in far easier mediums that can be realistically succeeded in by a single person, and work all day every day on it without breaks, and stick to one, singular idea, have still ended up getting old and dying before getting just that one idea out into the world
Every story with some footloose-tier bad guys who think creativity is an evil curse may have had a point there, life is fucking bullshit

>you guys will never get to play any of my games
>Dissonance
>Zero Hour
>Neurosys
>Neurosys 2
>Hard Code
>Orpheus
>LMN-8
>Dead
>Dead II: Death's Door
>Dead III: Heaven's Grave
>Dead: The Beginning of the End
>Light in the Dark
>Apocrypha
>Fallout: Anchorage
>Fallout: New Orleans
It's sad, you don't even know how much you're missing out.

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Are idea sellers a thing? People who just pitch basic ideas for movies/games whatever?

Sekiro but hordemode