Rev’s Thought Dump

I find myself loitering by the Game Developing section in the book stores. But I don’t think I have the time or the patience to do game dev work (nor the skills?). Though I envision less of a game and more of just a fully code-able 3d environment.

I was in a mud once that allowed you to define objects and code them in the game. That was pretty cool. I toyed with bots and such.. and someone actually brought the server down when they fired off one of my replicating bots. But anywho… I like the idea of a full on 3d version… looking like WoW or what ever modern MMOG you can think of, but with the ability to click on something and then crack it open… have a nice floating 3d window come up and you can modify the code and define the object.

I have dreams about this often… where I’m walking by an object and I just peal it open and modify it’s code. I was zoning out on my 2 hour commute the other day and I was staring at a trencher backhoe hanging off the back of this truck… I suddenly thought about opening it up and adjusting the variables to try and squeeze a little more power out of it.

Weird… I know…

But I think I like the idea of an online place created by users. I know they have places sort of like it… but… I dunno.. I’m thinking of something different. C# of course. =)

But think of all the slacker teens out there (my cousin) who’d suddenly found they’d learned C# and development practice in general, in an attempt to blow their friend away online.

Hrmmm

Well, I was going to say that my possible project would be a simple card game (I’ve got some rules that I’ve never seen turned into a computer version)… but I went off on a rant.

OpenGL Solitaire anyone? Of course I mean Tao

An engine for my dynamic world idea?