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Million Dollar Madden

I hope if someone takes some of my ideas and makes a ton of money from it, they at least credit or throw a tip. I don't wanna sit on a good idea like smaug and I don't have the time to even find who / where to post such a thing, but when inspiration strikes, I thought I'd put it out on the interwebs. For whatever reason the algorithm gave me a series of football terminology clips on my FYP. One in particular was Drew Brees (former quarterback of the New Orleans Saints) explaining play call terminology on a talk show culminating in him calling the play, in all it's complexity, with verbal quickness. The portion of it that would appear to be impressive, is the tight window of time he has to do it. Given that AI has advanced so much to not only have very effective speech recognition, but also create a world of NPCs that are ever less NPC-ish (in a traditional game sense), I have an idea for the next generation of madden games. This combined with the era we live in with gam...

A Game Within A Game

My first encounter with the notion of video game speed running was one of annoyance and disdain. I have a disposition for a strict adherence to following rules & order so when I saw complete disregard for the game designer's vision in exchange for an appearent cheapening of gaming it bothered me. Like that time an African village was given a set of iPads for education and they were just used as cutting boards.  As is the case with many situations online, making it through potentially misunderstood first impressions often pays off. As I dug deeper i discovered modding communities and game programmer challenges. These games I grew up playing, now being torn apart to their virtual atomic level and reimagined through the eyes of autism. I was hooked. This stuff was borderline, if not completely art. Creativity & true inspiration are my clickbait hooks and I found a new obsession. Creating games within games, creating new worlds as remixes of old ones- and documenting the proces...