Every day I sit here, and I read books, or watch movies, or look at Ma more pigs. Every time I do that I think, "Wow how lucky it is for all of those people, to make a living world that they helped create or were a part of!” I envy those with the ability to just put a pen to paper or a hand to word (or notepad for the lesser of them) and just make up a world they can live in and get taken away by.
I have tried to write stories in the past, but one thing always stops me half way through "Originality"! I look at what I have written and constantly critique myself until I realize "Someone out there has written this same thing only a lot better" and then that is when I give up. I recently read a book on procrastination, and since then I have caught myself with things one might dub as procrastinating. For example I will be around the house and my girlfriend will say "Hunny we have to clean up today so we can have your parents over tomorrow" and I will think "O well I have to do a lot of work on the car already so I will wait till later a trigger hits in my mind that says "NO! that is you trying to procrastinate! STOP it!”
I am not getting that feeling with this though, it is not a procrastination attempt this time, its something more with this and I just have yet to figure it out.

I hear ya.
I think it would be so cool to do this in another medium than you mentioned (MMO development).
I think there is some game out there, i never tried it, but it is called RPG maker or something like that. Ill have to find out about it. May have even been a console game.
Sun Aug 31 2008 12:43AM ReportLearn programming, and try to build a platform game, is easy to make a platform gaem than anything else.
Sun Aug 31 2008 4:04AM Reporthttp://www.multiverse.net/ is your friend.
Sun Aug 31 2008 4:34AM Reporti envy you for not being creative
i try to sit down and have a sleep or read a book or lax out in front of an mmo or something and im hit with a bolt of creativity and i just have to write a few dozen pages on it and if i dont i stew on it and i cant get to sleep
so it works both ways
Sun Aug 31 2008 7:03AM ReportSeriously give one of the Neverwinter Nights editors a shot. There are several persistent worlds out there.
Its a good way to cut your teeth.
Sun Aug 31 2008 12:03PM ReportOr wait till Fable 2 or something, when it's released you can basicalluy make your own world...
Sun Aug 31 2008 5:22PM ReportMMORPG.com writes:
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