Thursday, October 10, 2013

Discussing video game ideas

This is a discussion of video game ideas which I have come up with. These are ideas for a war game. The first is to have the ability to make technical drawings of weapons and load them into the game. This way, you can load your new and unique ideas into the game. With a community of players, many people can load in weapons that they have created. Also, players can describe their ideas to developers/programmers and the developers/programmers can make the ideas come true and add them into the game. If a gamer has an idea for the game and cannot make the idea come true in the game, the developer or programmer can do it for them. This way, the game will constantly be updated thanks to the players. The programmer can make something work for the gamer. For example, if I made a hole and put a missile launcher in the hole (and camouflaged the hole) and told a developer that I want the hole to retract and the missile launcher to rise up when an army comes through so to set up a surprise attack, a developer would make it happen.
Another idea is to allow the player to open up a preset battlefield or make a unique battlefield of their own in which the gamer decides the size of the battlefield, can build structures, use terraforming, build underground, make waterways, bodies of water, etc.- maybe even write a script to make weather. The game would have with it an ability to create not just a battlefield, but also a planet, and even a solar system, and with enough time a gamer can create a universe. Once a gamer creates a battlefield and very own weapons, the gamer can go against another gamer or group of players who have created their own weapons and incorporated their own ideas into the game too. If I am in a group of players, the players in my group can suggest what I can do to improve my weapons. When a battle takes place, the players' ideas and weapons will be put against each other to determine who's plan was most effective. The players may choose how many troops and weapons they have. A player may win against a much larger army if the player has a better plan, and if the weapons created by the player are more effective by using more advanced technology or if the weapons work better, or if the player has better strategy- not just in fighting but also in how the weapons work. The troops would evolve as they experience more battle. Yes- literally, evolve, as in, they may evolve to run faster or have enhanced senses. These traits can change in the troops gradually.

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Storms of last year

Lightning from a tornadic storm going to Ohio from the north can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JghOaVDyJjk
Weather recap 10/4/13
A cold front in the midwest collided with warm moist air from the gulf. The risk for convection was moderate. West side of the system caused over two feet of snow in Wyoming, with snow also falling in Montana. west SD, and Colorado, with temperatures during daytime down to about 28 degrees. The east side of the system caused 7 or more tornado reports in eastern SD, western Iowa, and eastern Nebraska. One of the tornadoes was a multi vortex, while another was about 1 mile wide and the same multi vortex or another tornado was 1/2 mile wide, with one of them north and another south of Sioux City. Heat ahead of the front was in the mid or upper 70s in the north.