Anyone interested in making video games?

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Not sure if this belongs here, but it seemed a better fit than the video games subforum, since this is actually talking about the creation aspect of it.

So, is anyone here interested in video game making? Design, art, programming, writing... personally, I'm more of a designer/writer. I've come up with too many ideas to keep track of (not exagerrating, I'm currently trying to archive every idea that I've ever recorded, but it's taking me a while, as I've got bins and bins of papers to scrounge through), and I haven't finished a single one. orz

I'm not interested enough to learn coding.

I love making video games and I have finished a few over my time.
I am not skilled at drawing or programing so I use gamemaker or RPG maker.
Both allow me to let my imagination run wild dispite my lack of gamemaking know how.

For a while I was interested in providing music/sound design for video games. I even created a demo reel and sent it out to companies like Big Fish and Activision. It seemed like it would've been easier to just hook up with some guys from a college who were a fledgling company. Oh well.

I'v made several video games in Flash and a few in Java and HTML5.

I've had an interest in game design in the past and always spent the most time focusing on the artistic elements, and since then it has developed into an interest in interactive art in general. I'd like like to make simple, one or two button games that are more about exploring an environment and instilling a certain emotion in the player rather than anything approaching a solid narrative. There have been a number of games similar to this popping up in recent years which is very exciting to me, it's fantastic to see game design become so accessible to the average person and I'd really like to see more artists (and people who don't necessarily play games at all) take advantage of this as an interactive medium. The possibilities are endless!

I have an interest in game design, myself. I'm a prolific writer and a compulsive storyteller, and I like the idea of having some of the stories I come up with have interactivity on the part of the audience. I've sent samples of my work off to Zombie Studios in Seattle, who're looking for a game writer, but I haven't heard anything back yet. I have ideas in development, right now: one is a third person sci-fi stealth-action RPS, and the other is an open-world first-person science-fantasy adventure game.

I already know I don't have the patience for coding, or enough artistic talent to be a 3D modeler.

Wow, so many replies! 0:

Man, with this many people, we could start a game studio ourselves, lol.

I can write code in C++, C#, Java and stuff like HTML and various script languages. I'm more interested in the design process though: the gameplay mechanics, the setting, the characters... actually, that's what I want to do as a job.

I wouldn't mind pitching in music/sound editing skills if needed

As i'm still an beginner programmer i can maybe help in a way for easy coding part and help me to take somes coding experiences or i can try to be there for brainstorming

EDIT: i also can translate from English to French if needed an multi language program