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Ideas! And the other people who already had them.
Deicist
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So, yesterday I had an epiphany. The best idea for a game ever(tm) popped into my head, almost fully formed and I decided I was going to start work on it.
The idea was an homage to 8 bit puzzle platformers, with a unique twist... time travel! At any point during a level you could hit a 'rewind' button, rewind everything around you to an earlier point and then play it forward again. You'd be able to solve some pretty interesting puzzles through novel and never seen before game mechanics. Like, for example, you could stand under a platform that's just out of reach for a few minutes, rewind time, wait til your 'past' character came up and stood under the platform and then jump on his head to reach the platform. You could speed up / slow down the flow of time as well (so you could position yourself where your 'future' self needs you to be, then speed up time so you're there for a bit). There'd be sections where you'd see a future version of yourself perform some task while you're going through a level and then, later in the level you have to perform that task to avoid a time paradox. Oh yeah, when you prevent your past self from performing a task that you already did (by moving something in his way or whatever) a time paradox is created and your character 'snaps' back to control of the past self. This is also used to solve some puzzles later in the game. I even had a self mocking name for the game and hero (Justin Time) all lined up. it was going to be a breakout indie hit and make me millions....
So anyway I sat down today to research platform game engines and, before I started, googled 'platform game rewind time'.
And that's how I discovered what Braid is all about.
So SE++, have you ever had an absolutely fantastic idea only to discover that someone else has already had it? Ever seen a product and thought 'hey, I had that idea years ago'?
The idea was an homage to 8 bit puzzle platformers, with a unique twist... time travel! At any point during a level you could hit a 'rewind' button, rewind everything around you to an earlier point and then play it forward again. You'd be able to solve some pretty interesting puzzles through novel and never seen before game mechanics. Like, for example, you could stand under a platform that's just out of reach for a few minutes, rewind time, wait til your 'past' character came up and stood under the platform and then jump on his head to reach the platform. You could speed up / slow down the flow of time as well (so you could position yourself where your 'future' self needs you to be, then speed up time so you're there for a bit). There'd be sections where you'd see a future version of yourself perform some task while you're going through a level and then, later in the level you have to perform that task to avoid a time paradox. Oh yeah, when you prevent your past self from performing a task that you already did (by moving something in his way or whatever) a time paradox is created and your character 'snaps' back to control of the past self. This is also used to solve some puzzles later in the game. I even had a self mocking name for the game and hero (Justin Time) all lined up. it was going to be a breakout indie hit and make me millions....
So anyway I sat down today to research platform game engines and, before I started, googled 'platform game rewind time'.
And that's how I discovered what Braid is all about.
So SE++, have you ever had an absolutely fantastic idea only to discover that someone else has already had it? Ever seen a product and thought 'hey, I had that idea years ago'?
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alas, Netflix beat me to the general idea
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I call it Jump To A Conclusion!
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makeup companies have everything in the world on lockdown, it seems
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I had the idea for this comic SUCH a long time ago!
I just checked, it hasn't been made yet.
Satans..... hints.....
ohdang
"For weight reduction. Less weight increases performance and handling."
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About ten years later I see:
"Aww, shit. I should have patented that idea..."
TOO LATE!
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One day
One day I'll get you
I don't feel too gipped about that one to be honest.
I win 1 to nothing!
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Did you teach it to Obama when you two went back in time with the Nazis to train in a secret muslim homosexual terrorist school in Kenya?
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You can't say that! You're not the ref! The game isn't over!
Not rewinding time, but if you want headbreaking time mechanics keep an eye on this.
And by "invented" I mean "made once because waffle cones were complicated" and then realized they were not structurally sound enough to not break when dipped in ice cream.
Oh well. At least ice cream is still awesome.
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I was so excited the first time I saw a 128mb flash drive. I got it on sale for $40! What a bargain!
I used to think Zip discs were some sort of science sorcery. 100 megabyte floppies?!