DEV Community

Fran Tufro
Fran Tufro

Posted on • Originally published at onwriting.games on

writing interactive games because we can

Writing is telepathy.

  • Stephen King

What better advantage than the flexibility of words to create images in our minds.

The production effort for a video game to visually represent complex things can be prohibitive.

Words, on the other hand, are cheap.

With just a paragraph we can, in less than a minute, create visual images that would take hundreds of hours to draw, animate, etc.

Even with a static image, we can set the visual anchor and bring it to life with our words.

Let's use that superpower!

I propose something to you:

Write a paragraph that can serve as a trigger for a new game.

But let it be a game that would be very expensive to produce.

Either because the art would be very costly or because the programming would be very complex.

For you, that is.

It doesn't have to be something that a professional can't do, or that Microsoft can't pay for it.

Just write something.

Let's start the year with something written.

You in?

Here goes mine:

I never thought that temporal paradoxes were so annoying.
I liked them so much in movies.
It was last week, I think.
I fell asleep.
And I woke up 10 years ago.
When I went back to sleep, I woke up 20 years in the future.
On and on.
Every.
Damned.
Day.
Just by breathing in the past, the future changes drastically.

Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Feel free to share yours!

AWS Q Developer image

Your AI Code Assistant

Automate your code reviews. Catch bugs before your coworkers. Fix security issues in your code. Built to handle large projects, Amazon Q Developer works alongside you from idea to production code.

Get started free in your IDE

Top comments (0)

AWS Q Developer image

Your AI Code Assistant

Ask anything about your entire project, code and get answers and even architecture diagrams. Built to handle large projects, Amazon Q Developer works alongside you from idea to production code.

Start free in your IDE

👋 Kindness is contagious

Please leave a ❤️ or a friendly comment on this post if you found it helpful!

Okay