Being able to focus on just one game idea until completion?
I have plenty of notebooks full with designs for “dream games”, but very little to show for it.
But, if I had to choose, I’d love to make a metroidvania with procedural generation and an easy to use map/asset editor. Maybe even in 3d!
Heck, I’m tempted to prototype the idea by building a “Metroid Maker” ripoff (assets are already done!)
+1 this is my “game dev dream” right now
Nah, I don’t do the team thing. I have nothing against them, but I have to pay the bills. Every one team member you add cuts your profits in half. If I had a team of even 5 people, I would only get a 20% cut (assuming all things equal), that’s not enough to live off of. 
Or, I guess, that’d force you to focus harder on marketability, which would limit the creative vision. :-\
I personally would stick with the solo thing if only because I know I’d end up “Phil Fishing” it if I had to deal with others :
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Hi
I’ve been realizing my dream since 2006 but it takes longer than expected. Maybe my game will be ready in 2026… ;D
Yeah I am very onboard with this as I am creating such a game.
I already said when Mario Maker came out: Have Konami make a castlevania maker… all the tilesets from all the different games, characters, enemies, items… would be awesome. But ye… Konami wont do anything anymore anyway…
Something like Master of Orion 2 mixed with Dwarf Fortress and Star Control 2. Turn-based 4X empire-building space strategy with roguelike difficulty (making it too difficult to expand to far to avoid too much micromanagement). In an infinite procedurally generated galaxy with a rich history to discover. And an end-game which consists mostly of expeditions to far away places to slay space monsters and rescue friendly aliens. Hmm, that sounds about right.
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Whoa.
Too bad steam already exists, or that would’ve been the ultimate name for the OS on this thing xD.
I learnt long ago that i can’t finish any good game while also working full time. So now i am my own boss, and working full time on this.
But first thing is first, we are doing a small rts style game first to get a game out the door and get experience finishing, releasing and supporting a game. Think smaller than titan attacks, but 3d since that is what i know with respect to opengl etc.
Assuming that works out, then the flagship game for us will be later and quite frankly stupid for indies to take on. But you only live once and its my XX grand!
Are you using Java for your game, or something else?
Very good question from NegativeZero, I’d like to know that too :point:
Yes, I am using jME for this game. I am a java programmer and can work fast with java. Also i have no interest for this first game to work outside PCs and android.
I gave unity a try but had problems with bugs and things and gave up after about 2 weeks. It even overheated a few phones! For the next project we may well go back to it. At least for the front end. But for now jME it is.
My game dev dream is to develop a game which relates to everyone and anyone. I want my games to have some kind of deep meaning that’s really obscure. I want my games to probe the feelings of the players. I really want to explore feelings with my games, and in my next game I’m going to try and induce a feeling of loneliness and longing in the players.
After that I’m going to try and re-create that mysterious feeling you get when you look at the stars. I know that sounds kinda cheesy, but I really want my games to mean something 
ShadedVertex,
Having the player realize that all their friends are actually aquaintences and make them determine if they are given random acts of kindness, asked to hang out constantly, are around great people, and if they choose to be how they are or does the actions you take determine it.
However, that game seems to lead into depression and I’d bet you’d kill off a few players x).
Sorry, I should have made myself clearer.
Have you ever felt like you really wanted something, but you just couldn’t tell what it really was that you wanted? Yeah, I’ve experienced it lots of times. And whenever I feel that way, I just feel like I’m lonely even though I’m surrounded by people. I want to induce that feeling in others.
It’s not really the kind of loneliness that leads to depression and suicidal thoughts, it’s the kind of loneliness that just makes you feel melancholy. Yes, that’s the perfect word: melancholy, “a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.”