The next Google…? Calling all creatives

I suppose you might call it a eureka moment. That key moment where you realise that you’ve hit upon something pretty special. The kind of moment that Gary Gygax might have had back in the 1970’s when he created Dungeons & Dragons. More recently it may have been the moment that Johns Romero and Carmack crafted the computer game DOOM. Maybe even closer to home it might have been the spark that gifted Sergey and Larry of Google fame. These guys not only “thought it” they “did it”.

I long for this moment but sadly feel I have nobody to share it with. No creative sparring partner. Hence my fantastic ideas will never bare fruit.

Sure I have ideas. I have tons. Mostly these days I have internet based ideas. That is, ideas that are executed in a web page. These ideas are generally entertainment related. Games. RPG type games. I love that stuff. But ideas can float around quite freely. I just don’t feel like I can share these ideas with anybody for what you might term a ‘brainstorm’.

I wonder whether there is even such a thing as “geeky enterprise” anymore.

I read with interest the biography of one Ian Livingstone who aged 23 moved from his native North West (England) to London and shared a flat with Steve Jackson. Between them they shared a passion for traditional games and soon hit on the Dungeons & Dragons idea distributing the games in the UK from their Games Workshop outlets. Originally the business operated from their flat in London. Ultimately it became a huge international retailer.

Have all the great ideas been soaked up? Is there any room for this kind of enterprise any more or is everything in retail dominated by the huge out of town sheds that specialise in nothing and stock everything.

I continue to have my ideas and long for somebody to work them out with. If you’re like minded and fancy joining forces (and are preferably not a spotty oik), putting creativity before profit then shout up. We might just be on to something…