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[AdamButcher]

Did you draw and design computer games as a kid?

I mean just on bits of paper or in your head - long before you picked up any programming tool?

Or was that just me??

I'm gonna dig out some old drawings I must have at my parent's house. But in the meantime does anyone have any old drawings/designs/ideas they can share? To jog your memory, look at the cover to this amazing 16-bit album:


http://www.8bitpeoples.com/discography/by/alex_mauer

I must have schoolbooks full of this stuff. Show me yours please...

[petertos]

The games I designed as a kid...

We should go back to Madrid, Spain, 1992. I was 11 and we raised some funds to start our new graphic adventure with a friend... We started a company and made a couple of sketches...

Unfortunately, I don't know where that friend has gone now and no idea where the sketches are... LOL. But I remember those years as awesome 

[sublinimal]

I designed games on paper, drew characters/weapons/levels and even wrote "fanfic" revolving around them. Off the top of my head, my ideas included a Pokemon rip-off (with a zillion new monsters), a top-down shooter called "Blast" (with a zillion bizarre guns), and a cave flier (with a zillion ships complete with stats, history and such).

I probably don't have the old drawings left anymore, which is a shame. I even borrowed a book on C(?) from the local library to try programming some of them, but it went way over my head back then.

So I mostly just made custom content for other games, and became exceedingly efficient at it.

[Paul Eres]

i thought most of this forum's members are still kids?

anyway, here are some designs i made when i was younger (14-15 years old): http://rinku.livejournal.com/1994/09/29/ -- i wrote those designs on paper back in 1994, and typed them up later on

originally it had drawings i think

[_e_va]

i never heard of gam

[AdamButcher]

anyway, here are some designs i made when i was younger (14-15 years old): http://rinku.livejournal.com/1994/09/29/ -- i wrote those designs on paper back in 1994, and typed them up later on

Oh man - disappointed I can't see the Map of Vegtible etc. Otherwise, these are far more detailed and thought out than I ever managed...

[Jono]

I had a bunch of game stuff somewhere but I probably chucked it out when I was cleaning my room a while ago.

[Paul Eres]

ya i kept all the typos as-is, rather than correcting them

when i was a kid i was like 'when i grow up i'm going to turn these into real games' but now that i'm grown up i'm like 'those ideas were stupid, younger me! no way i'm going to waste time making them into games, i've a lot better ideas now.'. but at least making designs those helped develop my ability to design games, so in that sense they were worth coming up with

[Ryland]

Super Pickle! You would be like superman if superman were a pickle! I'm not creative now, and I wasn't creative as a kid!

[siskavard]

I don't have the drawings, but when I was 10 or so I had this platformer idea of just this cartoony head with tires named D-Lux. You roll around the level collecting spark plugs so you dont run out of gas. It would have been FANTAS-Horrible.

[Graham.]

mine were all garbage. god we sucked.

[caiys]

Can't remember designing new games, but I used to design extra stuff for existing games. Like I'd draw a bunch of Legend of Zelda dungeons on graph paper with new items and weird monsters. Kinda wish I kept them, but they're probably a pile of crap.

[keo]

13, FLCL fan game - I liked my sprites.

kanti's the best. it was going to be made in rm2k3, and switch between different game genre's during combat. meh.  Also designed a game where you traversed a labrynth with lufia monster and earthbound sprite rips, and the minotaur I had sprited the face of my sister.

[aldo]

I had a notebook full of awesome bosses and machines Dr. Robotnik could've used against that damn hedgehog. Don.t know what happened to it.

[Jackson31]

I made a few platformers as a kid, often they didn't involve much more than mindless violence, clearing out a screen of enemies and then platforming to the next one.

One involved riding a jet powered surfboard like thing and chasing down huge mechs, it was probably the most creative one