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I really miss play time. Not standard video game play time, I still get a bit of that, but creation play time. I miss having time where I can sit down with DarkBasic, or Flash, or whatever, and just try ridiculous shit. Things like, "Hmmm.... I wonder if I could make a video game where you make toast" or "What if every character in the game had a piece of toast instead of a head?" or maybe even trying something that isn't toast related in the least. (Hmmmmm, ever since we started eating less bread in our diet an astounding number of my ideas end up being toast related, come to think of it.)
With one of our major projects at Tietokone coming to a close it finally looks like I might actually have some time to play again. I have an interface that I am working on in flash that I think might be fun to show off, and almost completely useless. See, that's the sort of stuff I need to work on now and then. I need to build something that when someone asks me how it can make money for a corporation I can answer, "I think you could probably get a couple bucks for the hard drive it's stored on..."
As a side note I noticed that they are planning to do a Star Trek MMORPG. I think this is an absolutely brilliant idea. Finally a Star Trek game where you can go to the holodeck and think up something fun to do in the Star Trek universe. Now, before I get a hundred rabid Klingons on my doorstep let me explain something, I don't think that Star Trek itself is boring. In fact I have enjoyed quite a few of the episodes. However, I just don't think that the Trek universe is well suited to most game types. What makes Trek interesting are the stories about moral dilemmas, and the thinly veiled political references. When I contrast that with something like Star Wars, where the only dilemma is what to do with all the hands I chop off with my lightsaber, I end up wondering how a Trek MMORPG could possibly be fun. It might be cool if you could assemble an entire crew and then take crew based missions, one person captains ot to the planet, a couple people beam down, a science guy gets readings on some weird life form while the red shirts hold off a bunch of rock monsters... Nope, still doesn't sound that fun to me. Hopefully the people working on the game have better ideas about the subject than I do.
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