Has anyone ever invented a game?

[Bok_Tukalo]

I have the game board, the rules, the playing pieces, everything. I need to just find someone to play it.

[sasquatch]

1. Why don't you make it and take it to a college and play it

Get the kids involved in it and you should get some $$$. Then you can be a Limosine liberal.

[Bok_Tukalo]

3. That's a good idea. It needs to have the bugs worked out

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I did

It was based on using a calendar as a game board. I was maybe 12 at the time, and my grandmother would play it with me....

[7th_Sephiroth]

4. yeah

semi-auto russian roulette (just kidding) the game is swords and shogun, and is somewhat like Monopoly

[Longgrain]

5. My brother and I once invented a game called Rock and Roll Chess

The rules were exactly the same as regular chess exept...

1) the object was to capture as many of your opponents pieces as quickly as possible.

2) Points were given for each piece, for example Pawns were one point, Rooks were 3, Bishops were five, and so on...

3) anytime an opposing piece was captured, the player had to scream at the top of his lungs...

Most games only lasted 20 minutes...

[tridim]

6. When I was in HS we had to make a game for English class

Why? I don't know..

I made a "Clean out Ronald Reagan's Colon" game. My Repuke teacher was not impressed. The class loved it though. It was actually kind of fun to play. :D

[Speck Tater]

7. 35 years in the video game industry. Yup I've invented a few. nt

[Bok_Tukalo]

8. I have a bone to pick with you guys

Why is it so difficult to make a turn based strategy game? Why is everything first person derivatives of Wolfenstein?

[Speck Tater]

9. Dunno. Arcade games were my specialty.

Our only design goal was to steal as many quarters per hour from 15-year old boys as possible.

Then I got into flight sim games, and now I'm in "serious" flight sims for FAA approved pilot training.

[brainshrub]

10. Was there a video-game industry 35 years ago?

Pong was invented in 1966, but video-games themselves didn't become an industry until 1980.

Are you David Winter?

'Cause if you are: :yourock:

[Speck Tater]

11. My first games were ...

My first serious games were on the University time sharing system where I worked as a programmer back in the days of ARPAnet.

Then I wrote a lot of Apple II games.

My first commercial coin op arcade game was Astro Blaster from Sega (1981), so I guess my 35 year top-of-the-head estimate should have been more like 35 years counting hobby-level game programming and 25 years as a pro.

No, I'm not David Winter, but I am listed on this website: http://www.dadgum.com/giantlist/list.html although their list is far from complete.

(ED:SP)

[brainshrub]

12. You invented Sega Blaster!

:O

Wow.

:headbang: