So, there is an old project of mine that I am thinking about getting back to.
See, back in middle and high school, all I ever did was conceptualize games, anime, and other things I would love to one day have a hand in creating. I wrote out basic plot mechanics, devised systems, and sketched character designs; I basically taught myself the art of pre-prodouction, to a degree.
However, due to events in my life, by the time of summer 2003 I had, well, not to say abandoned these projects, but simply stopped working on most of them. I came up with some new ones, and evolved another project into what it is today, but soon devoted all my efforts into music games and such. The result of that is KuriMix, but that is another long story…
Well, the project in question was inspired by Final Fantasy 7, 8, and several other random games and anime I enjoyed at the time. It was intended to be an RPG spread over 4 or 5 games, and I, very seriously, wrote out over an hour of just back story (literally, I once told a friend the entire back story, and it took us one solid hour out in her driveway.) Well, I still have some of the notebooks, and some of the images drawn way back when, including the precious world map I had sketched out freshman year of high school. Seem the last time I really worked on the story was May of 2003, based on some old data stored on a long-dead hard drive.
Well, 2003-2010 is a long time.. and I have changed some concepts, and found many errors in my old plot ideas. I still remember most of the story, as well, which is great, because I can work on it “mentally” without having to write or type anything down with urgency: it is unlikely for me to forget a new idea, or an edit I made to something so embedded into my memory.
The question is, what to do with the project now? What to turn it into? Just what do you do with a 12 year old video game idea? :\