We’ve all seen it, on the forums of a videogame, in an article on some unvisited blog, or on a scarcely upvoted thread on a gaming subreddit, ‘Ooh I’ve got a great idea for this game, you should totally add X’.

Well that was me, I would play the crap out of Mount and Blade or Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and think man if only you could do this and this and this, and of course my surely terrible ideas never saw the light of a screen.

Well at some point in 2015 I began working on a project never intended for anyone other than myself, I’d never even made a game before (though I’d always dreampt of being a game dev). The little project I worked on went from being 100 lines of test code written in a free c++ compiler following a youtube tutorial to 340'000 lines of code, with 11'500 copies distributed on steam.

It’s been 4 years since I began working on this game and there is no end in sight? why you ask… because I’m still that ideas guy.

In a way it’s freeing to be playing a game and think, you know it would be really cool if there was a little mini fighting arena here… oh and it would be cool if you could own it… and you could upgrade it, and pay wages and lots bets out of your profit each fight… and so on. Suddenly there’s a small fight pit manager simulator nested in my game.

Whoops!

There’s also a school with four teachers, 20 lessons, extra curricular activities and a library if you’re an overacheiver. You can take exams there and you’ll get a dynamic response from the teachers depending on how you’ve done.

Here’s one of the teachers and a look at the school itself

You can also go to a drumming school and have a goblin to teach you how to drum by following his lessons. What is this game?

It’s a kingdom management simulation game, a game where you’re a king fighting off rebels, bandits, and procedurally generated kingdoms of anything you could imagine and yet it’s filled to the brim with dumb ideas.

One time I thought it would be fun if as king you could order entertainment brought before your throne, there are 30 different forms of entertainment you can request… one idea that came to mind was two randomly generated gnomes battling it out with insults, here’s what that looks like.

Penny won in the end as Bubbles ran out of my throne room crying!

The feature list could seriously go on for a long time, I’m also a big fan of suggestions from the players of the game and as a result of both good player suggestions and constant notetaking of any and all dumb ideas that come to me my list of things to add to the game is currently at 800 bulletpointed ideas, down would you believe it from 3000.