David Lancaster wrote: So the people in the plot are really broken human beings? The Super Apostles represent those in the church who claim to be of God and Christians yet 'hurt' others, and lack the fruit of the spirit in their lives? And you communicated this hurting through the killing of innocents in the name of God in the game? And you also communicated such blindness that we all have through their inability to truly listen to Blake, wife and others, seek out their true intentions, and in the end they were just quick to judge and kill them?
That's pretty much all correct.
As far as the black orb, that requires a slightly longer answer:
I'm glad to hear you felt that way about the graphics and sound; I agree with your philosophy about what makes quality almost completely. Obviously modern gamers are going to want a fully rendered 3D environment, but hopefully everyone recognizes that older styles can still be slickly packaged.
David Lancaster wrote: Where did you get your game design skills? How many years have you spent gaining experience? How did you learn to design an RPG? Did you spend 3 weeks full time developing this prototype? How did you manage to design such a good layout in such little time? Have you had experience before in design?
If you mean professional experience, no. My education is in theology and literature, whereas my career has mostly been in information technology.
I've been playing games since I was a child, and I always try to critically analyze what makes things work, be it a book or a game. The desire to create has been with me for a long time, from text adventure games programmed in QBasic to a more recent effort like this. I've spent plenty of time outlining better games, but never actualized most of them simply due to the difficulty. But for this I decided to finish something to the best of my ability, just to have something complete and give a full game a shot. That's probably all there is to my background in game design.
I was working full time during those three weeks, but other than that the majority of my time was spent on the game. Obviously the idea was older than those three weeks, as I like to let my story concepts simmer until I feel they're exactly what I want.
Basically, I looked over what graphics I had and the capabilities of the program. I tried to have no more than one dungeon per theme (forest, lava, etc) and tried to have a different design concept for each area. For example, the forest is all about the invisible maze, or the initial mountain is about easing players into the game. Once I figured out roughly how many areas I could manage, I put them together in the way that seemed most logical and then started producing maps and writing events.
David Lancaster wrote: I hope you don't mind my personal questions. Do you have myspace or facebook? Anywhere I can find out more about you?
Yes, but how about I send it to you via PM?
David Lancaster wrote: My biggest concern is that there are people who have been affected by the occult and are quite sensitive to it. In my opinion it's not the mechanic of magic that makes it bad but the word magic. If you replaced the word with something that didn't relate to the occult you'd be fine even if it had the same mechanic or some supernatural origin from God.
I do realize this is a concern for many, and if I were to be creating a game for anything other than free download I would keep it in mind.
David Lancaster wrote: Have you got any youtube videos up or trailers? I'd love to promote this prototype.
That’s a generous offer, but I’m afraid I don’t have anything like that. I’ve struggled with how to create a decent trailer for a game like this – my imagination exceeds my ability.
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