I apologize to every person on here I was a dick to. I feel bad. I looked through all my old threads (WAAAAAAAAY back to '07) and ugh. I was an a**hole. Also had no clue what capitalization/mature spelling meant. I’m happy we grow up. At least, a little bit. :evilgrin:
Happy realization and yes I would agree on growing up. The world would be a very different place to live in, if people were to remain the same forever.
Well some people just choose not to grow up. Peter Pan - our beloved fictional hero is an example.
not that I have the right too! but your forgiven, we all done it sometime 
now move over its my turn on the rocking horse rofl
However, I had some really interesting game ideas back then. I totally forgot I tried to make a mech game. I even figured out how to give it a “jetpack” using animated billboard textures and a motion actuator. Then there was this game that I started making after Bioshock had came out, and I only ever played the demo for it but couldn’t get very far because it scared the crap out of me but I loved how it began, looking at where you’re supposed to go but not telling you to go there… There was just something so simple and obvious but… natural about it. I don’t know, but that moment turned into me trying to make a game where you start off looking at the entrance of an old basement under a house and it has sheet metal over it and you jumped on the sheet metal to go into the basement and then you had to move around to find an unstable part of the floor and you fell into a well that lead into a cave with a bunch of navigational hazards… I also had heard about how Bioshock had a huge twist at the end so I had made it up in my mind that somewhere in the game you find out the reason you’re navigating such video gamey obstacles is because you are in a video game, locked inside some research facility virtual reality pod being studied as you went through the puzzles and then I was going to have it where you had to escape the facility… The Matrix had something to do with that as well I think (Also Portal). Sadly it didn’t get very far, just like all of my projects. I never told anyone the plot either because I wanted it to be a huge secret for them to find out about, but I never gave them the opportunity to. Oh well, I can just keep trying… Also, I’m going to watch the original 1986 Transformers movie as I just downed some… Robotussin. I’m terribly sorry about this post, but I can’t help but to keep typing. This is off-topic after all though.
Hey, zymn growing up is the natural order of things. But, you might have heard it said a artist needs to retain a certain childlike quality. And, since observation and imagination is such a big part of almost any art it might be true.
Observe little kids sometime. The way they observe things and what they can do with a cardboard box. A child will really see something and study it. And, yes the reason is obvious. Then watch them make a cardboard box anything they want it to be.
Many art instructors use to make students carry sketchbooks everywhere they went. Because as we get older we stop observing things such as lighting, shadow, texture, etc. But, using a sketchbook forced a student to see. Now for the imagination part I have not a clue.
I have a childhood friend who is a successful artist in oils. A New York opening years ago and has made a damn good living painting pictures. I will occasionally send him a project soliciting ideas. Hell, he will come back with twenty that never occurred to me. And, never would have. He just has a vivid imagination evidently and not only intently observes things but commits that to memory. And, that even includes movies he has seen.
Congratulations on that growing up thing but try to hang on to a certain wonderment and really seeing. Your post sounds like you still have the imagination thing going on. Don’t lose that.