Jason T Clark.net

There are times when nostalgia can spark new ideas for video games. You know, like World Wars, Civil Wars, Tribal Wars, and Star Wars (remember, the first one came out in the seventies). In my case, nostalgia has spark up the idea of creating a video game based on a dice game that me and “the fellas” used to play on the floor in my apartment (or on the street corner for some of them), and that game is called Cee-Lo. No, not the guy from Goodie Mob, or most recently Gnarls Barkley, but Cee-Lo the dice game.

Now, it goes by alot of names, like Headcrack, Tripps, and my personal fave, 456. Although there are games out there where you can play a number of dice games, such as craps, I have yet to see anyone implement a 456 game. When I was introduced to it, I thought it was much “cooler” than craps, since there were so much slang used around playing the game itself. Terms like, “Aced Out”, or “Rolling Box Cars”, or “Trips”, or “Tracey Lee” which means you rolled 3 for your point (I think it stemmed from a play on the word “Tre” which means three in loosely translated Spanish).

At any rate, my idea is to design a 2D video game, much like the Microsoft Games that are installed on your PC by default, possibly leveraging XNA to eventually offer it on XBL to the masses.