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My problem isn't a lack of ideas. It's having the bandwidth to do them all. What I really need is the ability to clone myself.

exevp 4y ago
So cloning yourself is the actual idea you should pursue? ;)
- dr_dshiv 4y ago
  It’s called hiring?
  - affgrff2 4y ago
    'leveraging your talent by means of labor'
    - sargstuff 4y ago
      no, that's what caused the romans/greeks to avoid making use of steam for labor -- what will the current slaves do?
  - exevp 4y ago
    Psssst, if you put it this way it won't attract VC $$$
    - sargstuff 4y ago
      > ... wont attract VC $$$ because of clone cache coherencey issues?
cableshaft 4y ago
Yep. Or somehow focus more, that would help knock a few more ideas out as well. My backlog of games/puzzles/stories I'd eventually like to get out there might be >100 at this point. Focusing mostly on a bit more of an ambitious game right now, and it's probably still 6 months before I get it into Steam early access (coding in my spare time and energy, which is sparse lately), so everything else is just waiting at this point. But sometimes I get an idea that I need to at least get some playable prototype with index cards, pen, paper, and tokens, at least. Just had another concept pop into my head a couple days ago for a roll-and-write I should at least make a board and write up some rules for before I forget. Waiting for the day when something like ChatGPT can code up a basic but working game based on my description of its mechanisms. Even if it can only handle abstract games on a sqauare or hex grid, that'd still be useful for me.
- jvanderbot 4y ago
  After I hit midlife I decided that I just didn't have enough time to do them all, and started pruning aggressively. I now keep three projects alive and bounce between them as interest directs. It takes discipline. But it also exercises my focus which was never a strength.
  - cableshaft 4y ago
    I'm mainly working on one video game and one board game design at the moment, mostly the video game right now. Sometimes if I want a break from the game I'll do a tiny bit of work on a library that should facilitate future web game development, or trying to get a personal site up again to showcase all my games (including past ones that have been released and videos for board game prototypes I've pitched to publishers before). I do have a list of what to work on next after that, though. I did used to try to juggle a lot more and bounce amongst several projects at once, but it's been too long since I've released something, so I've got to knock it off for a little while. But if I don't scratch the creative itch when it strikes at least as far as some notes and some card ideas or something, then I start feeling pretty stuck, since a lot of my current game is just getting all the UI running and polished right now, not exactly super creative stuff.
- appleaday1 4y ago
  I am interested in that? Maybe we can use ChatGPT or related tech to change Dungeon Crawler games or related procedural generated games? I think DCSS would benefit from this, imagine designing entire levels so that they fit your character well. A common frustration between people that play Felid, draconians or Octopodes according to the dungeon crawl subreddit is that, a lot of armor that generate that they can't use. I think if we had better code or algorithms that targetted even something as basic as item generation based on class or race you play will make games more immersive for people that pick them. It's always weird when I play DCSS, and I am playing a human brigand or something and I see Centaur warding or armor that I can't wear. Some of the best games I have had are where the character that I play, gets items or environments or vaults that help my character progress, this means the correct spells, items, stat increases, enemies and so on.
affgrff2 4y ago
Collect a list of problems. Then roll a dice. Work on the matching problem and let the other yous in the multiverse work on the others.
smallerfish 4y ago
The issue is having a full time job, leaving little time where I have creative energy to work on side projects. Strongly considering trying to find a part time consulting gig once my current is played out.
- sargstuff 4y ago
  google glasses / vr & double down on what can do at any one given time?
  - adversaryIdiot 4y ago
    God that's so toxic lol. But it's what capitalism wants!
    - sargstuff 4y ago
      does extend the life span of outlook.
moneywoes 4y ago
I guess this is where employees come in
agumonkey 4y ago
I try to find forests of related idea, so that working a bit on one, will contribute vaguely to another. I'm discovering logarithms

exevp 4y ago

So cloning yourself is the actual idea you should pursue? ;)

dr_dshiv 4y ago
It’s called hiring?
- affgrff2 4y ago
  'leveraging your talent by means of labor'
  - sargstuff 4y ago
    no, that's what caused the romans/greeks to avoid making use of steam for labor -- what will the current slaves do?
- exevp 4y ago
  Psssst, if you put it this way it won't attract VC $$$
  - sargstuff 4y ago
    > ... wont attract VC $$$ because of clone cache coherencey issues?

cableshaft 4y ago

Yep. Or somehow focus more, that would help knock a few more ideas out as well. My backlog of games/puzzles/stories I'd eventually like to get out there might be >100 at this point. Focusing mostly on a bit more of an ambitious game right now, and it's probably still 6 months before I get it into Steam early access (coding in my spare time and energy, which is sparse lately), so everything else is just waiting at this point. But sometimes I get an idea that I need to at least get some playable prototype with index cards, pen, paper, and tokens, at least. Just had another concept pop into my head a couple days ago for a roll-and-write I should at least make a board and write up some rules for before I forget. Waiting for the day when something like ChatGPT can code up a basic but working game based on my description of its mechanisms. Even if it can only handle abstract games on a sqauare or hex grid, that'd still be useful for me.

jvanderbot 4y ago
After I hit midlife I decided that I just didn't have enough time to do them all, and started pruning aggressively. I now keep three projects alive and bounce between them as interest directs. It takes discipline. But it also exercises my focus which was never a strength.
- cableshaft 4y ago
  I'm mainly working on one video game and one board game design at the moment, mostly the video game right now. Sometimes if I want a break from the game I'll do a tiny bit of work on a library that should facilitate future web game development, or trying to get a personal site up again to showcase all my games (including past ones that have been released and videos for board game prototypes I've pitched to publishers before). I do have a list of what to work on next after that, though. I did used to try to juggle a lot more and bounce amongst several projects at once, but it's been too long since I've released something, so I've got to knock it off for a little while. But if I don't scratch the creative itch when it strikes at least as far as some notes and some card ideas or something, then I start feeling pretty stuck, since a lot of my current game is just getting all the UI running and polished right now, not exactly super creative stuff.
appleaday1 4y ago
I am interested in that? Maybe we can use ChatGPT or related tech to change Dungeon Crawler games or related procedural generated games? I think DCSS would benefit from this, imagine designing entire levels so that they fit your character well. A common frustration between people that play Felid, draconians or Octopodes according to the dungeon crawl subreddit is that, a lot of armor that generate that they can't use. I think if we had better code or algorithms that targetted even something as basic as item generation based on class or race you play will make games more immersive for people that pick them. It's always weird when I play DCSS, and I am playing a human brigand or something and I see Centaur warding or armor that I can't wear. Some of the best games I have had are where the character that I play, gets items or environments or vaults that help my character progress, this means the correct spells, items, stat increases, enemies and so on.

affgrff2 4y ago

Collect a list of problems. Then roll a dice. Work on the matching problem and let the other yous in the multiverse work on the others.

smallerfish 4y ago

The issue is having a full time job, leaving little time where I have creative energy to work on side projects. Strongly considering trying to find a part time consulting gig once my current is played out.

sargstuff 4y ago
google glasses / vr & double down on what can do at any one given time?
- adversaryIdiot 4y ago
  God that's so toxic lol. But it's what capitalism wants!
  - sargstuff 4y ago
    does extend the life span of outlook.

moneywoes 4y ago

I guess this is where employees come in

agumonkey 4y ago

I try to find forests of related idea, so that working a bit on one, will contribute vaguely to another. I'm discovering logarithms