I've been gaming since my parents brought home a NES with Tetrison it Since then I've played all sorts of games: short orlong; good orbad; oldornew. Now in the course of playing a gameor just doing anythingi'll say to myself or my friends (if they happen to be around or listening) "hey you know what would be great? If they made a game with this and this in it andyou could do such and such a thing".

So we'll get into this big ol' discussion about my ideas andi'll practically make a whole game in my head and they'll say something like "yep, there should be a game like that?"

I didn't think anything of it untilI started to anywhere from a month to 2 years see, play, or hear about games that are suspiciously (to varying degrees)like the onesIhave been thinking of here are a few examples:

• an open world western game where you could ride a horse, do crimes,enforce the law, have shootouts, and otherwise do all the junk a gunslinger would do in the west.
• game where you could assassinate people and climb up walls and blend in withe the crowd
• game that was like planet side but wasn't an mmo but still had large battles and a squad, platoon, commander system
• and many more....

these are just short descriptions of the thing i came up with, I've gotten a lot more in-depth while talking about specific Ideas with people and withsome of them it was only a matter of time before one was made into an actual game E.g. a star wars mmo, or a Lord of the Ringish Battlefield.something with voice controls that actually work.

Ive started writing down and drawing out these ideas of mine and there are many more that have not been for lack of a better word "taken"by some company and now have a binder full of notebooks that are steadily being filled with "stuff" weapon bibles, story plots, and other things.

so i ask you all "ShouldI pursue this as a career and how wouldI do so? Or shouldI ignore it and chalk it up to a corporate conspiracy :P (that or I'm just of my nut)?