What if I made a blog called “What if Games”

and it was a place where people would submit posts under the premise of “What if <insert game/genre/developer/whatever> did something.

Like… My opening post could be “What if Game Developers weren’t limited by Money, Uninformed Fearful Investors, or Popular Standards of what makes a Good Game”

Then people could post stuff like “What if Call of Duty wasn’t the same game +4 years technological advancements in warfare with each new release?”

or

“What if Battlefield wasn’t showing symptoms of being devoured by EA’s giant steamroller made of solid gold forged from the wallets of prepubescent teens, the withered dry corpses of past developers, and the distilled malice of hundreds of soulless, faceless corporate thugs forever separated from a long deceased sense of accountability for their actions?”

Okay, so maybe I went a bit far with that, but you get the idea

Dead Planet - AI Simulation Concepts

A while back I did a bit of rambling on my big game concept that I’ve been mulling over since high school. For the uninformed it’s a game based in a future where humanity began colonization of distant relatively earth-like planets with automated terraforming on a massive scale. The premise of the game itself takes place on a lost colony, the cause of which’s details are generally obscure but primarily due to the fact that the artificial intelligence controlling planetary terraforming and infrastructure went rogue. You can read more about that in the “Concept Rambling” tag on my page, though-


For now, here’s what will likely be an unnecessarily long post about some of the ideas I have behind player interaction with AI in Dead Planet. This will take you a while, so maybe listen to some of my music while you explore the depths of my madness.

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I figured out that photoshop still works so I went back to something I already know and did a monochrome landscape picture like the one I did for my digital art class last year. If the team likes it, it might get used as a piece of promotional art for one of the mods I&#8217;m working with. It&#8217;s not finished, but I&#8217;ve essentially finished the background work and will soon start working on some actual features to the image.
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I figured out that photoshop still works so I went back to something I already know and did a monochrome landscape picture like the one I did for my digital art class last year. If the team likes it, it might get used as a piece of promotional art for one of the mods I’m working with.

It’s not finished, but I’ve essentially finished the background work and will soon start working on some actual features to the image.

I feel I should mention that while this job does pay extremely well and you get to see interesting things (which would be much more interesting if I actually had any interest in famous people)- It bears reason to note that atleast 80% of the people there are essentially criminals. Most of the conversations I heard today involved any number of different kinds of drugs and such.

My dad mentioned something about clearing out seats today for a “mosh pit” and since the band’s name is The Killers and I don’t know band names and for whatever reason everything was made of lightning bolts I figured it was going to be some hardcore band. Turns out it’s very much not metal.

Long story short, pyrotechnics are scary when you’re backstage (significantly closer to it than the audience) and you don’t know it’s about to go off.