My friends at Guru Games are working on some awesome stuff. I asked them to pitch it to me:
It’s a twin stick shooter where you are a….
Take 2:
It’s a fun game where you blow stuff up, jump around with a bazooka and create chaos
I thought about Ernest Adams’ Design Workshop where he made us all fulfil dreams. I tried to picture myself dreaming about a twin stick shooter or a fun game where you blow stuff up. Truth is, I don’t dream about sticks, not even if they are twins, and blowing stuff up is a tad too generic.
But I would dream about cows with heavy machine guns, set on KBOOMing the hell outta everything they encounter!!!!* **Also, this, UZI version:
It’s one of Sebi‘s old t-shirts, a gift from Geo when she first visited Switzerland.
The morale of the story is simple: Pitch to hoomanz. Not to gamedevs. What dream are you making true for your players? What fantasy are you allowing them to play out?
*It’s normal to dream about cows with machine guns, right?
** I also dream about writing Short blog posts.
