[marianminds]

I've been dreaming of doing this for years and I've been considering doing something quite similar to what you're talking about for my next project. The only problem, as another poster said, was investment. I was planning on doing a web-based text-based game, which would obviously turn a lot of people off ("that's not a real game!") but open it up to greater variation and modularity.

[jkaunisv1]

I think it's a great idea (well, see my above comment :)! Keep the scope small - this doesn't need an MMO to be successful, make it single player. Start with text and find an artist along the way.

On my walk home between posting my initial comment above and this one, I started thinking about how to make it happen as a side project and the conclusion I came to was writing the entire script/story out first as that would be the hardest part.