Keep the Car Running
“Every night my dream’s the same
The same old city with a different name
Men are coming to take me away I don’t know why but I know I can’t stay”
2am. Can’t sleep. Seems to be a good time to eat pudding.
Needing to do something with my free timeand I have come up with a couple of fantastically awesome ideas:
uno – A website that provides definitions and usage of words. The “hook” would be that they are wrong. You would take two similar sounding (but hopefully with vastly different definitions). IE gravitas\gratis or fletching / felching. Make it seem like it’s a real site that is trying to help the user “sound smarter”. Already have the domain and another version of WordPress set up. Need to do some basic UI design and come up with some words.
dos – Create a web based isometric game written in java script. Thinking turn based exploring city building futuristic end of days kind of thing (yeah so simple). Age of Wonders but in the future. Have the domain, done some basic research into java script game engines, but no art or ability to create it.
tres – Website reviewing movies, tv, books, games etc, with maybe some general rambling about related things. Have had the domain opiatemedia forever. Can fairly quickly set up WordPress and whip together another one of my awesome site designs.
cuatro – One of my friends and I about year or so decide we need to do something. Last time was a social networking site for gamers (yeah yeah yea) but generally it’s a game. So we are talking about that again. The platform this time would appear to be the iPhone. We talked for a while, have a general idea, we are both programmers by trade and he has at least done one iPhone app (I tried but my Mac drives me crazy).
I have started somewhat on uno but not really feeling it.
Dos sounds like a major pain in the ass at this point in time. I do java script all the time and I find it an appealing concept to try but too much work for right now.
Tres ain’t that great but will be easy. I watch a lot of TV, read a lot of books etc so I am doing most of the work anyway. So will probably set that up and getting it rolling soon.
Cuatro cautro cautro. The last project with my buddy dragged in a couple more buddies and took a year or more of time (apparently not a ton or we would have had it done) and actual cash (unlike most of our hair brained schemes). But so want to do a game and as much as I dislike Apple the iPhone/iPod Touch is pretty bad ass platform. The basic idea we have seems sound so probably get into it.