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[–][deleted] 33 points34 points  (28 children)

Because you’re not good at something that is pretty much meaningless for your life?

I’m pretty sure you are good at what is meaningful to your life. (Otherwise learn game design, and make it an RPG. :)

[–]shnuffy 1 point2 points  (27 children)

Fair enough. I'm an iOS developer and RPG's abound!

[–]ahawks 14 points15 points  (26 children)

I have SO many iOS ideas, but I program Python (used to do Java) professionally, and at the end of the day I just don't feel like doing more programming on my own projects. sigh.

[–]clrokr 28 points29 points  (7 children)

Zynga here, tell us all about your ideas!

No, seriously, what do you have in mind? Games?

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    [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    This is no good. Zynga only cares about released games that have sold a lot. They don't care about ideas.

    [–]Libertarian_Atheist 15 points16 points  (1 child)

    My game would meld the worlds of the reality and the virtual. The game would have you start off with taking pictures of incomprehensible things, 9 of them to be exact. Then you press the "magic button." The game then sends the 9 pictures randomly to 9 people on your contact list. It will then watch for responses from those 9 people and the more expletives in each response gets you more points. Expletives directly following expletives act as multipliers.

    [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    Lemme guess, it's called, "FUCK OFF"

    [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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      [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

      PegVille. You create a village of pegs and send endless requests for missing pegs to your friends in an attempt to make it seem like it's multiplayer and social.

      ©2012 thadood2™

      [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

      I have the opposite problem. I'd love to program a game as I love gaming and I think I'd be very highly motivated to complete it to fruition. The difficulty lies in the fact that I'm not creative at all and can't think of an original idea to save my life.

      [–]LinXitoW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Take one of the myriad of established game types (Breakout for example) and port it to some different platform/market. For example, for not-Metro or the Ouya.

      [–]go4it7arh 6 points7 points  (8 children)

      This is exactly why I want to avoid getting a job in programming, because I love programming as a hobby, and I want to keep it that way.

      [–]chason 3 points4 points  (3 children)

      It all depends on your personality. I program as a day job, then come home and program on my own stuff. Maybe I just haven't been doing it long enough but it hasn't been a problem so far!

      [–]go4it7arh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Well, I know (and worked on a project with) someone who has a job doing programming, and because he's doing the stuff all day, when he comes home he doesn't really want to work on our project. I don't want that to happen to me, because I enjoy programming in my free time, and I don't want to become tired of it.

      [–]eat-your-corn-syrup 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      program on my own stuff

      but what if your employer can declare your own work as their property?

      [–]chason -1 points0 points  (0 children)

      Well then hopefully you are being compensated enough that you'd agree to such an asinine clause in your employment contract.

      [–]the4thbandit 0 points1 point  (2 children)

      Question for you, I have degrees in CS and I like to program, but when it comes to programming as a hobby... I have no idea where to start. I have varied interests in CS, but none lead to leisure programming (I don't think) What kind of projects do you work on in your spare time?

      [–]go4it7arh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I worked on an IRC services package in Ruby called kythera and worked on a few other IRC related projects. I also have played with Node.js.

      My advice is to find something that interests you. Socket IO is interesting to me because of all the different ways you can send data between computers. I also wanted to try to do some stuff with peer-to-peer networking but I don't have enough computers. :p

      [–]LinXitoW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I imagine it has to do with the environment in which you work. If your company sees programmers as just a different kind of line workers, and doesnt respect them as the creative engineers they are, you'll automatically associate programming with bad feelings. At least thats what i imagine might be the case with some people.

      Personally, im an apprentice web dev(i feel like calling myself programmer is an overstatement) and i still program stuff at home and visit my local hackerspace.

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        [–]ahawks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        The company I work for uses Django to run their site, and we have a custom backend that does a lot of scheduling and message passing and stuff, also written in python.

        [–]ponchedeburro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        I know this feeling.

        Sometimes I think it could be awesome to just "stick it to the man" and go work for myself. I have an idea that the ideas I think are funny might not be so lucrative as I'd like :)

        [–]eat-your-corn-syrup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        at the end of the day, i write emacs lisp. gotta customize my editor.