Sometimes I take people's joking suggestions seriously and I haven't regretted it yet. Though I may yet. Anyway the suggestion was that I write a blog post a day for a year. I'm going for it.
I'd like to make a comment today about knowing what it is you are doing, and why. It seems to me that many things happen because people don't know what they are supposed to do. That's fine I like being surprised. I think that finding yourself is a great thing. Looking for work, creating new art, and peanut-butter mixed with chocolate have all come from somebody who didn't quite know what they were doing at first.
But there are sometimes when you know what you're supposed to do and you just don't do it. I think this is happening in many safety checks around the world as well as some industry. I'm just going to focus on one: gaming.
The goal is to create games that people will buy, I know this but I think creating new ideas is more important. When people get on video games for being violent I think that's a stretch but there are at least 4 Call of Duty's and Grand Theft Auto games out there. They're violent but more to the point they've got no point to the violence other than following some formula.
After a while when everyone is copying everyone else things get stale and not exciting. So I think that game companies know they need to do something new. Which is why they're making more motion control and 3d technology. But the idea needs to be good. Maybe a game where you actually learn guitar instead of faking it would be a good idea. Or if that seems too hard to impliment, Piano, we already have keyboards and they can correspond to controls without too much work. Or better a game that teaches a person to draw, or animate things.
I think that we have lots of untapped ideas that want to get out. Maybe the tech is too expensive just yet but I have hope that we can get it cost effective and maybe revitalize my favorite pastime.
Especially now that games can teach me how to dance.
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