Ikajo said:
Luca72 said:
In response to the last thing you said, yeah, you can only hope for niche appeal with a game like this. That's not a bad thing though - I think small devoted fanbases are way more interesting than super-broad ones.
You can check Youtube for some Phoenix Wright gameplay and you'll see what I mean, but really it's probably a standard adventure game format. Feel to use my idea - like I said, it just clicked in my mind how this could work a few seconds after posting.
How many of these ideas do you actually write out? I have a similar issue where I have a ton of stories going through my mind at any one point, but I almost always have one that really stands out. Right now I've got one that started as a game idea, but became too large and story-focused on its own, so I'm working on making it into a comic right now. The reason I bring this up is I still think this story could work better as a traditional story first. Maybe you should try writing it out from start to finish, and then if you happen to encounter someone with the skills to make a game but no ideas, you have a complete idea you can show them. Just don't get too attached to any one thing when it may be better if its changed.
Right now? I'm writing on the play, the three on going stories - two of them will become novels in time. One of them is halfway done (ten chapters) and I've been writing in four years. The second story is approaching it's end but it not as long as the first one, I've writing it for two years on an online site, it's kind of erotic. The last story is actually a fan-fic and it's just me trying something new - see if I can capture someone else's character in a story of my own, using the original setting. The play it's less than a year old. The other novels is resting till the day comes for me to write them, if I want to become an author is a good thing to have lot's of different stories (yes, they different, I proud myself with the fact that each story is different from the others. Don't take lightly on this! I have a friend who have over 50 stories, and they quite the same!). Right now I'm also studying Professional writing at my collage (first year of three) so I write for school to. No problem, I've had some of the ideas for years without any troubles.
I don't really want to make this a normal story. I got two reasons.
1. Because the way I think. Depending on what I try to create my mind works differently. Short-story one way, play one way, movie one way, novel one way, game one way. And it's not limited to writing. In my teens I tried make manga (yes manga), it didn't turn out very well but I learned to draw quite good. But my stories where to complex for my drawing skills. And to this point there is only one story I've manage to change from manga to text and that's is the play. Why? Well...I got this one story I really wish I could draw. It just wouldn't do as good in text. In manga/comics you can tell a story through silence. I made four pages, with just one textbubble, letting the pictures tell the story. You can't do that in text. You can't tell a story through silence. It's the same with games, I can't tell the same story through text as I can trough a game. In a game I can (hypothetically)let the player actually experience the story, so when I think of the story my mind creates the actual images for the game. Which lead me to the next reason.
2. I don't separate the actual game play from the story. I want the game play to be a part of the story, not two different entities without the need of each other. You don't think that could make way for a more interesting game than those that first focus on game play and then try to plaster a story to the game play? Or the other way around.
I don't really mind if this never becomes a game. It would be fun and nice of course but it's not like that's all my life is. I tell stories everyday, in some way. Most of them stay as my own entertainment but also allow me to test things within the recess of my mind. Letting me understand how people think and work. Making kind of a game in my head also allows me to think differently than usual. I'm not really your normal kind of person...