I've always had some delusions of becoming an author. As a kid, I read voraciously and still collect books more than anything else in my adult life, despite my attention span being shot to hell these days. The thing is, even if I brush up my rusty writing skills to a barely acceptable level and bang out a novel, I have a feeling not many people would read it. I don't know many readers... maybe I hang out with the wrong people. I do know plenty of gamers, though, and that's why I'm inspired by Ren'Py. Why not turn my ideas for novels into visual novels or text adventures? It's a genre underrepresented outside Japan and something that could reach people on a wider scale. I've been on a creative rush today, thinking of the possibilities. 

Given some time and obsession, I could be an indie developer. Sort of.

I don't know why I'm sharing this with the Giant Bomb community. I guess it's exciting to me to at least be learning the absolute basics of narrative structure and video game development, even if I crank out a failure in the end. 

tl:dr: Giant Bomb community, try to make a video game. It's exciting to learn some background knowledge into the industry we love. You'll thank me.