I have, for a long time now, been experimenting with various bits of game and simulation technologies. I’ve written simple landscape renderers, entertaining mini-games, and even a fairly convincing vehicle simulation. All along I’ve felt that I should take these bits and turn it into This Thing or That Thing. I should have a vision, a product. I should sell it and get rich! Always the steam runs out and I wind up back where I started, a little bit wiser but not really any further along. I went through another round of this recently, which involved burning everything to a DVD and wiping the drive clean. Very therapeutic, but not terribly useful otherwise. And now I am trying to figure out what to do next. I can’t just drop it, though I couldn’t tell you why. I have a compulsion to create. I don’t feel like creating in a vacuum; it should be out there getting used and shared and improved. I would still like to get rich at some point, even if I can’t see how to do it from here. I keep coming back to this line from The Neverhood.
I create because…I have to. May you find value in it.
