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Idea guy articles...




You're useless, idea guy...
Making games is a dream for many people, ranging from kids to the very old; it doesn’t know age at all. People love the idea for many reasons, some people think they can present interesting plots, others believe that their programming skills could get them better gameplay than many games and the majority of the rest believe that they have an idea worth realizing, and guess what? This is where my problem lies; it lies in “idea guys”.
http://ps3code.enginetechnologies.net/wordpress/?p=708



There's no room for the idea guy
from the owner of BaseCamp
Startups need people able and willing of doing the actual work. They need programmers, designers, and eventually folks to do marketing, support, and more. What they don’t need, though, is someone who’s just going to be The Idea Guy.
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2188-theres-no-room-for-the-idea-guy

 

this should be required reading for anyone who wants to make a game

 

Seconded, please make a topic for this. I will report/recommend sticky on it.

 

There was one a while ago with some really good discussion in it.

 

Lots of memes:
http://www.developermemes.com

 

Spot the idea guy...

 

Isn't jjabrhams an idea guy he attaches his name to something and prints money. He came out with the idea for Alcatraz handed it off to subordinates and man did that at show stink, but he had the big idea to try and sell

 

I need guns. Lots of guns.

 

Ok, this is necromancy that was totally frickin' worth it.

 

I agree.

 

He is now, but he's earned that right through previous, legitimate, high-quality work. It's OK to be an idea guy if you have a reputation for excellence and good ideas. Most MMO kiddies don't.

As an example, compare the following situations:

1. fredmaster2089: "hi guys i have an idea for an mmo i need coders and artists"
2. J.J. Abrams: "I'm currently producing an MMORPG. Bad Robot is currently hiring programmers and artists for the project."

 

After reading through this, I can safely say.

 

For those logo designers.


I appreciate that you post on this forum advertising that you can do logos. But don't outsource your own work to someone else. #ideaguy

 

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?31395-Scam-Reports-amp-Tips

 

That sort of thing would be rather helpful here...a sort of 'Hall of Shame'. It'd certainly make Commerical and Collaboration slightly better places.

 

HAHAHAHA, awesome!

 

You didn't write any unit tests.

 

Network lag

 

Don't make me laugh that hard man...I'm in the library procrastinating when I should be finishing my assignment.

 

This could become my favorite thread on this forum. Pure awesomeness is purely awesome!

 

Donkey Kong

The donkey looks decent.

 

I got too distracted on that one by trying to figure out what he's wearing. It's like he's in a poorly constructed cocoon of sweaters where he's slowing transforming into Bill Cosby

 

This post proves we need a dislike button this forum.

 

I used to make Computer Nerd pickup phrases like you, until I took an arrow to the knee.

It was justified, in my honest opinion. I even congratulated her on the shot via FaceBook.

 

This is me and my wife all day. Just last week we had something like this happened. Wow..so true.

 

I've heard so many people get mad about that generalization, particularly the version where it regards fixing motorcycles or some engine... but the reason it is funny is that it is soooo many of us have experienced this.

 

This, a thousand times this.

 

What happens to musicians who don't practice playing their musical instruments ...

 

Stages of programming...

 

When you're tired of debugging, and another bug appears

 

When you forget to commit that one file...

 

Does Unity Web-Player work in IE7?

 

Life of a developer.... not enough time to code...