Daydream believer

I hate having those dreams wherein I’ve won the lottery. If for no other reason then that when I wake up, I get filled with emotions. Yes, more than one! I feel angry, but also disappointed. The things I would have done with that cash money.

Lets imagine that after I’ve properly dispersed my winnings (houses for my family members, a paid in full wedding,  new undies), I still have buckets of it left. And that after taking my money out of those buckets and into a bank, I realize that I can know take care of the frivolous things I’ve always dreamed of.

So I have to wonder, am I the only one who fund a video game production? In the “About” section of the Double Fine website, studio head Tim Schafer mentioned that he’d love to make a Wii game. Problem is, he’d need some serious chedder/chedda’.

“Why don’t you spam your favorite publisher with mail right now,” Schafer said,  “and ask them to send us money to make a Wii game? (And a little extra money for a pool table?)”

Suddenly, the gears started rotating, which in turn activated other connected gears. Almost at once, my mind began to churn out ideas.

Well, one idea really.

I would love to fund that game. Instead of hoping and praying that someday a publisher will look upon the salt of the earth from their diamond castle and provide us with _______ 2 (insert the game of your own choosing that never got the sequel it deserved).

Just think about handing $20 million over to Michel Ancel, creator of Rayman, and saying “Go at it.” First I’d hope that he wouldn’t rip me off, saying that I “owe him one” for the fun I’ve had that he had provided.

Maybe I wouldn’t get the Beyond Good and Evil sequel I wanted. But instead I’d get a game that was composed of unrestrained Ancel. I would never get in his way and demand concessions. Instead of removing the Hillian News from the game and replacing it with a licensed copy of The New York Times, I’d tell him to make up as many fake newspapers as he wanted. In fact, if he was a little worried about the game, I’d tell him to “Act like a Hillian and just chillian.” How many publishers exist that would say that? None. Tyler Prohlew Productions keeps you in charge, or so the motto goes.

Would you fund a game with you vast riches? If you would, is there a sequel you’d commission? If you wouldn’t, well….you’re rude.

And Schafer, if it were up to me, you’d get that damn pool table. With all the fixins’. I'd get you one of those fancy tables that demand the respect they deserve. "It's called billiards, fool," the anthropomorphic table would say.

Comments

[Jp36]

I would totally commission a sequal to Ogre Battle 64! I loved that game more than any other tactical strategy franchise.