Okay, I admit. I didn't study Go today, or draw, or clean even. I got sucked into a little program called RPG Maker XP. Me and RPG Maker go far back. It was the first game creation tool I ever tried to make use of. Of course, I never actually produced anything out of it, but I did learn a lot about coding and storytelling and commitment. (i.e. if you can't really and truly commit yourself to a project then you will never finish it)
So, I recently started messing with RPG Maker XP again, and all the ideas came flooding back. I couldn't help but take a stab at it and I became quickly obsessed.
One thing that I hold to be the best and funnest part of games/game design are the cinematics. The storytelling and the feeling you get during those truly tense moments. (Okay, I think that's enough bold text for one post.) Back when I was making my first games, I would spend literally hours listening to hundreds of midi files just to find the song that fit the mood of the moment I was trying to create perfectly. (Okay so italics aren't much better but I am really passionate right now okay?)
So, I started a new project. At first I was just watching my girlfriend mess around with the program by herself. (She was the one that started trying it first, and then slowly but surely the bug bit me and I dove back in myself.) Of course, I wasn't making a real game. (Woah, bold and italicized! Can I really get away with that?) I was just going to mess around a little and make a dumb little RPG quest in like 20 minutes. Of course, I then spent the next couple hours fleshing out every last detail of the first 60 seconds of the INTRO to what I will for now just call my awesome dramatic zombie game.
The first scene of my game. A desolate town plagued by disease. One healthy person remains , a girl with a strange immunity to the virus, to take care of the remaining villagers.
I would say that, since I did spend my time in creative pursuits, I can excuse myself for todays small slip-up. As for the rest of my day, I am going to see how much more RPG Maker I can cram in before I get tired of it, and then, maybe then, (really I just did that one to be funny) I'll play Go and/or draw.
Until tomorrow,
-BuddytheRat
