In a small corner of social news site Reddit, an interesting game-making experiment is about to take place. Dozens of volunteers have been gathering for a little over a month with a single purpose: to provide 27-year-old Singaporean Munir Hussin with the tools and help he needs to program 52 video games—in 52 weeks.
If he succeeds, Munir (who we’re referring to by his given name, as Malays have a patrynomic naming custom) will have padded his portfolio with more than 50 games—and made his mark on one of the Web’s biggest gaming forums.
“My passion is making video games and my dream is to start a game studio,” Munir wrote on Reddit in November.
The problem? He couldn’t find a team to make the games with him and, as an unknown developer, he certainly couldn’t find any investors. Munir had seen threads on Reddit where artists drew whatever redditors requested. He wanted to take the same approach to games. They’d post ideas, and he’d program the games. A recent university graduate, Munir is unemployed and living with his parents. It’s not like he’s lacking free time.
(via Daily Dot | Creating a game a week for one year: Can this redditor do it?)