I have this pipe dream of making a video game some day. But I realize I don't have enough life experience to write an interesting story (or at least compelling characters which if you ask me is more important than a good story), but I was thinking or reading a bunch of old medieval epics to get inspiration, do you guys think that's a good idea, or should I join the military or something? I'm worried I'm just going to stay the same depressed loser I am living in my parents basement, unless I try to do something cool. I don't know though, is 26 with no experience to late to start trying? Should I just give up? If no what other things should I do to be more interdasting?
Military yes, pronto
>should I join the military or something?I am a veteran. The military is incredibly boring. It isn't the 1940s anymore, soldiers spend most of their time doing basic manual labor like raking leaves and sweeping warehouses. The other branches aren't any better.
>>35085713Maybe WW3 will start and I'll get some good stories, like Tolkien.
>>35084681Bro writing? Writing's the easy part if your ass can do asset creation and coding just punt the writing to me or any Anon on /lit/
>>35086248I have a very specific rough outline of what I want things to look like. I can't let someone else do it. It's mainly writing good characters, that's my fear, you can have a shitty story with good characters and you won't even notice that the story is shit.
>>35086287https://youtu.be/RmhAGZJOf_o?si=5Fbe1xVZgLQ4X23_Here's some good writing advice.
>>35086291Well I should probably with a smaller story first. My dream game is a massive open world thing, but that's not realistic for someone new to this. But maybe I should start working on a lore book, just to get these ideas out of my head. But something I do want to do is make a world that feels genuinely medieval, genuinely fantastical (like a world where magic and monsters make sense and fit into the world in a logical way), and genuinely pagan (not like stuff where people only read the lies of Homer as their inspiration for a pagan world). Another thing I really like is that over the top medieval melodrama, Dragon's Dogma had some good examples of that: https://youtu.be/TqA8ho6Pcgg (I love this cheesy crap). I was thinking of reading Orlando Furioso, and An Introduction to Roman Religion by John Scheid as some sources of inspiration, but An Introduction to Roman Religion is out of print so I'm looking for other things on that topic right now.
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