Thread: Bringing a DREAM to life... Are you interested in designing a Game Creation System (GCS)?

Idea

To create a freeware/open source GCS (Game Creation System), tentatively named D.R.E.A.M. (Design Realistic Environments And Models) which will be used to create an interactive dream translation program/video game. This GCS will allow users to create their own levels or entire worlds. It will utilize technologies like Voxel Terrain and Procedural generation of objects from trees to houses to decorations in a house. It will not be system/resource intensive, it will be coded in such a way that during the design or play phases it will use minimalistic system resources. The system will not be about the graphics, it will be all about functionality, as it will be coded modularity it can be updated for new graphics technologies as the years pass. The GCS will have everything the user needs in one program, a modeler for creating static meshes and characters, an image editor for creating textures, a world editor that can, zoomed out, edit entire worlds or galaxies and zoomed in can edit simple levels, a music editor for the recording and creation of sounds and music, a video editor for the casting of simple video scenes using game technology, etc. Because it is an all-in-one package it will not be able to do quite as much with each of these inner programs as say its industrial counterparts in Max, Maya, Photoshop, etc., but these inner programs will be able to do just enough for the purposes of game creation. The game will have a special script editor that uses normal, descriptive text to create entire worlds (this is another piece of the puzzle for me, as when I read the Myst series I have always wondered how it would be to have an editor that created whatever you wrote.) DREAM will also build a sort of library, using its internal resources and any other resource it has, based on each user's unique dream symbols, so that entire dream worlds could be created simply by detailing them in the script editor then polishing it up using the other tools. The whole idea here is to allow the user to create and interact with the worlds of their dreams, and by proxy to serve the main purpose of this program.

Purpose

Providing a way for people to work and interact with their dreams is only a secondary aim of the DREAM GCS. The main purpose is to begin a spiritual awakening. The program in itself may not start it, it may only serve as a seed. But the intention here is to get people to become aware of and seek out spiritual matters. The tutorials provided with the GCS that teach users how to use it will most likely be centered around the user creating a 3D world from their dreams so they can explore it and perhaps find the hidden meanings of the dream.

Today when I woke up I thought about what the worksheet I worked through in Jack Canfield's “Secret to the Law of Attraction.” I have teaching and writing talents. I have a high reading comprehension. I am an artist who is finds happiness in working with geometric from, which translates to level design, modeling, and architecture. I am interested in dreams and spiritual matters. Most importantly by working on this GCS with those who are to work on it with me, I will serve and help others. It meets all the requirements as I know them to be a Life's Purpose, my Life's Purpose. Even as I type this I am energized and excited – other good signs. Now there remains only one thing, to give this idea away, to put it out there, to remove my ego and any personal claims from it. If it is my Life' Purpose to be involved with this project then I will be involved. If it is not perhaps then it was a part of my Life's Purpose to get the idea out there to others. I will know simply by what happens in the days and weeks to follow.

There are no coincidences. I came to this forum for one reason, to help someone. You can verify this for yourself with my very first post. That means that someone here will be lead towards, or serving, their own Life's Purpose by helping me work on and create DREAM. Either someone here, or someone here will lead someone to me as a result of this post. We will find each other, all of us that are to be involved with this. For DREAM to be created it will need at least one coder/programmer, one texture artist who can also design UI elements, one modeler who can design basic building parts, and one sound editor to create the sounds and music. I will serve, if I am to serve in this project, as a sort of director. I have an idea of how the interface should be designed, how it should work, and how it should look. I have an idea of what features the engine should have. I have an idea of how the various elements of the GCS should work and function. I have these and many other ideas from the video tutorials that should be used to teach the usage of this program to how the procedural building engine should work by taking themes containing certain architectural pieces, elements if you will, and construct these into villages, cities, even forests that have a common theme. I may serve as the visionary behind this, or as simply one of many visionaries. I may be called not to serve in the creation of DREAM at all. I release this into this forums with no expectations whatsoever. No clinging or aversion. No ego. If this is what I am to do it will flow with my Life's Purpose to do it.

So if you are interested there a a few things you need to ask yourself first, and I highly suggest you read Jack Canfield's book, which I mentioned at the start of this post. Does serving in the creation of the DREAM GSC utilize your unique skills, abilities and talents? Does it engage your interest? Does serving in whatever capacity towards which you feel most drawn excite you? Are ideas already pouring into your mind? If the answer to these questions is, “yes!” I ask you to open yourself up to the possibility of doing this. Never mind the things going on in your life. Your job, your family, the obligations you have. God created you for a reason, He designed you for a purpose, and this may just be what you were put here to do. You will have to let go of these other things, and you need to let go of the expectations of those around you, no matter what they say. If you are sure you feel pulled or drawn to this project, then you must drop everything else and pursue it. Do not worry about those other things, because when you are following your “Life's Purpose” everything should fall into place. You should still find time for these other important obligations, should they flow within your Life's Purpose.

Take your time before acting. Think about this, meditate on it, make sure. Understand that few things in this world are instantaneous. Results may be slow in coming, there may be much time in the trenches designing this GCS. But one thing you can count on is if you are following the Ideal Course God designed for you (which He did with the same care and effort He gave in designing who you are) you will be happy, beyond happiness actually. You will feel fulfilled, complete. You will have a sense of purpose. Things will fall into place. You only need to follow your Life's Purpose, and leave the ego out of it as much as possible.

You are not what you have, your ambitions, your achievements, etc. You are not what your parents, your wife, your husband, your kids, your church and the people at your work tell you. If you are unhappy doing what you are currently doing then you are not “on purpose.” True happiness, true joy is found in doing something that utilizes all your special abilities, skills and talents. It engages your interest. It gives you the kind of energy as I have now. I have 2-3 teeth in my lower right jaw causing me so much pain my right arm is weak and partially paralyzed at times. I can't even touch those these without paralyzing my arm and experiencing shooting pain. Yet as I wrote this I hardly felt that pain at all. I am beyond my pain, above it. I am excited and I am pretty sure I am serving my Life's Purpose in some way here. If you see where you can serve in this project and begin working on it you too will transcend all physical/emotional/mental/societal concerns.

To Apply

For now I will serve in the roll that seems to call and pull me in the creation of this GCS I have for now called DREAM. Please note I have no attachments or expectations here. The features of this engine, its parts, even its name - everything I envision is simply that, my vision. Nothing here is set in stone. DREAM will be special and unique. It will be created by a team of people flowing in their Life's Purpose, following the courses God created for each of them, that strange as it may seem, was in part or whole to come together with others to create this GCS. As a result it too then must flow in its creation to be designed its absolute best. I will, as long as I am to serve this project, use my vision as a sort of goal or bar to try to reach. However it will not be a true goal. Our Life's Purposes are beyond goals and bars because they are beyond expectations. With every goal to meet, every bar to reach, there is an implied expectation. For those flowing their Life's Purpose they need to have no expectations. Water does not know where it flows. It simply follows its channel. It is always present-minded, never dwelling on the past or focusing on the future. This then is the example we, and the DREAM GCS by proxy, must follow.

That said for now I feel I should serve here, so I will serve as I said earlier, as a sort of director. PM me or post of this project is one you wish to get involved with. Please note that my resources are limited right now. I do not have a a very good computer. But this is good, because if we want to create this program to use very little system resources it should be able to function on a laptop like mine. I have no worries, if I am to experience this more graphically the final parts I need for my computer, or a better laptop, will be provided for me.

We begin work immediately. I look forward to seeing what group manifests to bring our DREAM to life -
- DreamBliss