Game idea input and fesability question

[sociologygeek]

Hey all,

I guess you could consider me a kinda touch and go AGSer... I like the idea of making my own game but excecuting it was too daunting and i lost interest..or..i lost a good chunk of material i was working on and had to start from scratch..and my interest might wane. But, here I am again, with renewed at least for now, vigor. First question i have is game related.. i know an adventure game is supposed to be strongly story driven, thus one has to be at least adept at telling a good story. Also it has to drive the imagination, there has to be a hook within the first 5 minutes.. i know when i play a commercial adventure game.. i really like to get into the story within the first 5 minutes.. i digress. well, i figured, any good author(or in this game, adventure game maker) writes what about what they know. So i ask...is it "doable" to make a game based somewhat loosely on one's own life experiences.. if not make the author the player character? If i make it interesting enough? Ihave an idea that in the beginning of the game.. the character gets into a car crash(which really happened to me) and is knocked back 6 years and wakes up in all places, Shanghai China, reliving the trip he took before (yes, i actually was in China in 2007). The plot could be how to get home when i dont speak very much chinese, and i learn more as I go along, and i need to find certian items in order to get home (passport, money, etc). And when i get home, its still 2007, and i need to get back to 2013... does this sound like a game someone would want to play? Also, a question about the techical execution of the game. Theres no point in denying it, i am not a graphic artist.. so in order to make a game, i have had the idea of relying on capturing realtime images of the real world ( my house, room etc) and me walking around etc to convert to scaled down bitmapts and sprites for backgrounds. If i put enogh effort into it, would this be something that would be acceptable in any style of adventure game? if i make myself look cartoonish enough and hte backgrounds cartoonish enough? I really do want to make my own game.. i had an idea of a space adventure, but that seems overdone and all the ideas i had about that were taken from established generes,..but the china thing is complety my own. Plus i can use my own images as reference for sprites without having to worry about infrignements.. any comments are welcome..

[Vince Twelve]

I really do want to make my own game..

That's all you need, go do it!  Everything you mention is perfectly doable.  Just keep in mind that no one's first game is awesome.  You have to try several times before you get really good at it.  Just make sure your vision is not too ambitious.  Make some smaller stuff so you know what you're up against before starting that magnum opus.  Keep it simple, experiment, and have fun with it.