Check out this great idea. So this young actress comes to Hollywood. It's tougher than she thought. It's scary. She falls in love with another actress. The other actress wins a part over her. The young actress gets jealous and hires someone to kill her. K. And it's all going to be represented in a dream.
Sounds like a piece of shit, right? Wrong. It's Mulholland Drive. And it's incredible.
How about this one: A poor guy and a rich girl fall in love on the Titanic. Then it sinks. That's a 600 million dollar idea.
So, the next time you have an awesome idea and someone sighs at you when you explain it; just get over it. They can't see what you see.
Most video games that suck don't inherently suck. Teams get focused on the wrong attributes; they underestimate how hard it is to accomplish all of the initial ideas; they overestimate their budget. If companies had as long as they wanted to make every game, and they stayed focused, all games would be fun.
Games, unlike movies and television shows, can always be fun. Raking your yard can be fun. Make it competitive- that's easy. Make it a puzzle game, you have to change direction every time you hit a boundary. (Alright, that's easy - just rake in a spiral). Or with two players, play Isolation while you rake. Yes, I just linked my homework assignment. Scroll down for the game's description.
As Mary Poppins says:
In ev'ry job that must be done
There is an element of fun
We find the fun, and snap!
The job's a game!
This is my game professor's email sig.
This is why we are taught to pitch games. Good ideas can sound bad. All ideas can sound good. Witty lines do wonders for shitty ideas. (See: The 'Three Strikes and You're Out' Law)
I said there are no good ideas and no bad ideas. Well, there are a few really good ideas. For example, Crank's pitch sounded so good, they got funding immediately. It was something like: 'A guy is injected with a poison that will kill him unless the he keeps his adrenaline up.' Is there any better way to frame an action movie? 'Guy must do awesome shit from the beginning of the movie 'til the end.' It's like Speed, which was very successful, except it's a person instead of a bus. And the bus only had to stay over 55 mph. That's the speed limit.
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This one made me smile.
People can't see what you're seeing until it's concrete. Duh. Do it for yourself if anything.
Like Jeanne-Claude and Christo, (Their bio), they do it for themselves, their friends, and if it interests more, then yay! (I read an article about them in a National Geographic Magazine today which was sooo inspirational - I wish you could read it.)
I mean check it out: They spent like 26 years for the Gates project. Throughout the whole project they met so many obstacles because they had to get permission to display their art, etc. And they do this for like every project. Talk about dedication! Phew!
And if worse comes to worse and it's not what you expected, well at least it's out of your system. You won't be going "what if?"
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By the way, that is the cutest sig ever. And you should probably change "Three strikes your out" to "you're out". :p
Thanks for the link and the grammar check :)
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