Comment by CaptainOfCoit
1 day ago
> and you've got something potentially as big as Pokemon.
Huh? Granted, anything is "potentially as big as Pokemon" but care to share why this project in particular makes you feel that way? It's a fun project, I'll give you that, but "programming as magic incantations" feels like a niche within a niche within a niche, which would make me believe it cannot ever be "as big as Pokemon". It doesn't need to be either, nothing wrong with fun projects made for fun.
Before Cyberpunk became the darling that is has become, there was another sci-fi future with a few authors that imagined a virtual world with magic and sorcery being software, and software developers writing programs that read like incantations. That alternative view of a future chose to construct VR worlds in a medieval style simply because it all fit a theme of fantasy with magic (software.) That version, or school of sci-fi was active in the 70's; which is when I read some of it. It's rich, it's engaging; with good marketing that could all be reimagined.
i've gotta agree with you on this one </3