I largely agree with your point, but interestingly I’ve always found the ideas and blue sky thinking game design part the hardest personally. I can code nearly any game mechanic at this point, but struggle with the writing/creativity part of game development. If you find that easy, you should consider yourself rather blessed, it doesn’t come naturally to us all.

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rustystump 3 days ago | parent [-]

People build up too great of expectations when the topic of “creativity” comes in. Nothing is new under the sun.

Also, i press “x” to doubt you can build any game mechanic not because i have no doubt you are a talented engineer but because the domain is really that vast. Multiplayer netcode is a prime example and why I used an idea which had a multiplayer component that was realtime.

Ideas are cheap. Making them real is not. It is why engineers get paid so well.

	▲	jama211 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Hah. Obviously there’s probably something I can’t make but I mean it’s by far not the bottleneck for me. And funny you should say, because my last job was actually building peer to peer multiplayer netcode with fully deterministic rollback for a video game. It was hard and took years but we did it. I think you keep saying “ideas are easy” (for you) and insisting therefore they’re easy for everyone else. They’re really not, good ideas anyway.