Why we want to create games.

This is something that I've wanted to write for awhile now. It's also a good time to write this, because I'm downloading a game off of Steam, so I have some time. :)

People ask me all the time what I plan to do with my software engineering degree. My family asks me the same question. To me, this was a no brainer. I had been gaming even before I was interested in computers. I love gaming; I love how they connect people, how people can take your game and form communities around it, how it's a visualization of a concept in your mind that people can interact with. The list goes on and on.

Gaming is the compilation of every expressive medium of all times, in which you can interact with. That in itself is just amazing. Building games is my passion. Granted, this is my first step into this, but I know this is where I want to be. There's nowhere I would rather be than making games. I want to take the concept I have and encapsulate it in this great interactive experience, so you can experience it too. I want to spread this joy that I have making and designing the game with you, so that you may experience my ideas and the world that is locked up inside my mind.

Eric is in the same boat with me. We are both determined to make games and we make games because we can. Making games becomes an obsession with us. We get so involved with what we are doing, that's all we can see sometimes. I literally lie in bed and our game is just running through my mind. It's almost as if this is just burned onto my eyelids. Eric always wakes up every morning and has something new he wants to put into the game. When I say it's sometimes all we can see, I mean it's all we can see.

A game allows you to be something you aren't, be something that takes on this epic adventure to save the princess in the lost kingdom. A game allows you to experience something that you normally can't. To Eric and myself, that is something very precious to us. There's this wonderful world of games and we have to somehow make ours stand out from the rest. That's a very overwhelming task, but we believe that somewhere in our future, we can do that. Granted it may not be this game, or the next, or the one after that, but we plan on making an impact. We love this too much for us not to give 110%.

-Dave

We Aren't Dead

I haven't posted a blog in awhile. There is a reason for that. Eric and I have been super busy with college and getting work done. Everything has been crazy and I'm just always doing school work. I know that's how college works, but it explains why I haven't had time to work on the game in a little while. However, I hope to try and get back into things. This is just a quick update, and by no means have we stopped working on the game. It's just that real life has to come first, so that I actually make it through college :)

-Dave