11-12-2025, 01:22 AM
"Make a video game" is my low-key retirement plan too lol. Not as in I-would-need-the-income-to-retire but more like once I retire, I'm going to put some serious time into game engines and see if I can develop something -- especially now that AI is competent enough to help -- even if the only one who ever plays it is me.
(Last time I tried, I had a lot of trouble using AI with the Godot engine because Godot had just done a major version jump with all kinds of broken backwards compatibility. The AI would tell me how to do things but not for the correct version of Godot. It was a hassle. But that was a couple of years ago and AI has already improved notably since then. I think I could give it another shot today, but definitely in, say, 5 years.)
You could probably check out Kenshi if you want to fish for more ideas (possibly ideas on how to not do things). Kinda sounds similar, although I dare say Kenshi had some problems with making it approachable and fun. (That game had a tremendous "vertical power" curve so you spend the first 20 hours trying to reach a point where your dudes can actually maybe sometimes win a fight. It is literally why I never fire that game up anymore.) But it was interesting in that it was "you start with a character" RPG style but then turned into an RTS with base building, and a far more immersive world than something like Rimworld. Actually not sure if there's anything out there quite like Kenshi.
Also interested in seeing where "Light No Fire" goes. From the people who made No Man's Sky. No release date but it sounds like fantasy-RPG "on a planet about the size of actual Earth" and with a lot more NPC interaction.
(Last time I tried, I had a lot of trouble using AI with the Godot engine because Godot had just done a major version jump with all kinds of broken backwards compatibility. The AI would tell me how to do things but not for the correct version of Godot. It was a hassle. But that was a couple of years ago and AI has already improved notably since then. I think I could give it another shot today, but definitely in, say, 5 years.)
You could probably check out Kenshi if you want to fish for more ideas (possibly ideas on how to not do things). Kinda sounds similar, although I dare say Kenshi had some problems with making it approachable and fun. (That game had a tremendous "vertical power" curve so you spend the first 20 hours trying to reach a point where your dudes can actually maybe sometimes win a fight. It is literally why I never fire that game up anymore.) But it was interesting in that it was "you start with a character" RPG style but then turned into an RTS with base building, and a far more immersive world than something like Rimworld. Actually not sure if there's anything out there quite like Kenshi.
Also interested in seeing where "Light No Fire" goes. From the people who made No Man's Sky. No release date but it sounds like fantasy-RPG "on a planet about the size of actual Earth" and with a lot more NPC interaction.