I’ll try to lay out my idea for you in a day or so, but it might take up a bit of space. I didn’t want to do it here so as to avoid cluttering the thread with tangential stuff. Your own Emporium idea has given me a few features to consider regarding it.

I’m not sure what possessed me to do it, but I learned that I could envision something and then do enough research on the coding language to make it happen. I also got quite far with another project for the TI-82, Salisbury Ransom, a text version of River City Ransom which takes 2 player characters from Wicomico High School to rival high schools, Parkside and Bennett. Players could pick up and use weapons, such as metal pipes, and upgrade character stats by using cash gained from battles to buy and eat food. Unfortunately the number of variables allowed by the TI-82 made it practically impossible to make the game how I wanted (I had to create 2 extra sub-programs just to house functions and variables when making Thug Life).

The end lesson is that I feel confident enough to plug away at a coding language to bring about the results I need, even if it takes a while.

Dragon, if you ever want to layout your idea, I’d be interested to hear what you have in mind, just out of curiosity. And, I promise not to steal it (I think have more than enough well structured ideas of my own to really want to look elsewhere anyway).

My own videogame design ambitions are alot more modest (though similarly not the direction the industry is going as far as I can tell), but I still think I’m alot further from any ability to execute them than you are from yours.