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.

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.