Ok so I watch a lot of devlog videos, and talk to a lot of wannabe devs on Discord (definitely not using “wannabe” as an insult there, it applies to me too!) and there’s this concept of a dream game that keeps coming up.
I’ve been playing video games since the 1980s and yeah, there are always improvements I’d love to one day see in every genre I play. But this idea of having a specific dream game is just entirely foreign to me. There are way too many possibilities to have just one dream!
My first attempt at a real game, I quickly found out it was going to be way too big and way too far above my current skill level. So I just…dropped it. Yeah I might go back one day, it would make for a cool game, but beyond that I’m not super attached.
So basically my question is, how common is this attitude among game devs? Do you all have a specific dream “one day” game in the back of your mind? Or maybe you’re already working on it? Or are you like me and you just enjoy making games in general?
That is a very cool approach. I might have to steal it haha.
What I always try to do is get friends to help me out. Hasn’t worked out yet unfortunately. At the end of the day I was the one doing 99% of the work. But some of these days I’d like to get into a group project that actually works.