Re: Earlier Entry
I was looking over that baseball defense entry I typed up before and it reminded me of the time I was at the lake and I came up with a whole new game.

I don't know what made me do it, probably a combination of daydreaming, boredom, and the nice view, but I totally wrote out a brand new baseball game. It was a sort of the baseball equivalent of "Ultima Online" - which was the first game to really bring online-ness to the forefront of gaming.

THe idea was to create a role-playing game, you are one guy that you create, modify, alter, customize, etc. Then you go and practice and try to work your way up from the minor leagues up to the bigs. The catch was that everyone is a human player. Everyone on your team is an actual player.

The one thing that really excited me was that the GMs were also human. Hell, why not the umpires too? You could get an email that was like "Yo playa', you just got traded to Memphis, sux 'cause they have a stud in the bigs that plays your position, looks like the minors for you again...sorry but we got some mad players in return."

That felt awesome to me.

Actually, it was a magazine competition for the best new game idea that I wrote all this out for. I wrote like 10 pages (diagrams and everything) even though the thing I sent was a paragraph long.

Nothing happened, I didn't win. I felt I should, what a great game! I would certainly buy it if it ever existed.

THen, maybe 4 months later, I hear of this game in production called "Ultimate Baseball Online" and I was like "whaoa." Since I was modeling my game after Ultima Online, I had called it Ultimate Baseball Online, so I was very suspicious.

Turns out the game isn't that great and it isn't the game I had in mind, but still- you never know.