I got this idea...
Hey! So instead of taking a break, yesterday I had this really cool idea for a new game, and I just couldn't help myself. I wrote a few pages of setting (again, in my free time, I've been responsible and I've worked on Tales from the Green as a responsible adult, because I really need to get it done). So what's the game about? Well, download the intro PDF I attached here and you'll get an idea. If I do write this, my idea is to make it a short project, the kind of game that I finish in a month. It would essentially be a hack of Machine Gods, actually, although I do want to try a new wounds system instead of HP, and I had this weird idea for exploration that might use cards to generate a grid of places to explore... We'll see.
So my question for you today is: is this worth pursuing? Or is it a stupid idea? I want to make a really dark and grim game, the darkest I've written since Under Ashen Skies. For a moment I considered making it a present day setting with the same core ideas, but there's something about Medieval Europe that makes it more interesting to me, especially with the strong religious flavor that the game has.
Anyway, let me know your thoughts!
Comments (26)
Put some trigger warnings for body modification and write it out.
Yeah, if I do make it as dark as I want it will need some trigger warnings.
Do it! Always got my support buddy!
Thank you!
Hellraiser and Blasphemous and Elder things. Sounds like fun!
Haha yeah, you're right!
You have to follow your muses... even if they are dissolving collisions of singing flesh washing upon an endless ravenous shore of sinew .... lol. :D
haha thanks!
This is awesome. Elder Gods meets Between Two Fires.
Hell yeah!
Love it. Im an atheist/agnostic and dont feel it is close enough to a "real" religion for it to bother me, for what it's worth. Closer to Hellraiser, me thinks. Keep it in medieval times. You could always do an expansion to modern times after 1000 years of the rapture.
Yes, it's not like it's going to be a religious game, I'm not religious myself. That's just the excuse to kill weird shit and scavenge!
I don't like real religions in my games. I'm trying to escape for a short bit, not be even more enmeshed in things that are causing real suffering around the world.
It wouldn't be a game about religion, any more so than something like Trench Crusade is. It's 100% a fantasy game, the religious stuff is just the background because it's something I like to explore often in my games. Sacrifice has as much religious themes as this idea.
Go for it!!! No idea is a stupid one, especially coming ng from your brain.
haha I appreciate the vote of confidence!
Even if you don't sell this it will show you something. This game is something that, if not for you, will never exist.
I know it's not really professional of me, but I never think if I'll sell this or that game when writing them. I just write what I think can be cool or fun to play, haha. Terrible business model, I know...
Getting new ideas should always be explored. You never know what might end up working better than expectation in the end. Explore all possibilities, so you don't regret it later.
Yeah I tend to write a page or two of all the ideas I have (I have A LOT of pages written like that), but this one resonated more than others, so I decided to work on a couple of layout pages for fun.
Write this!
haha thanks!
Nope. Bible is cringe tbh so I myself would skip this one.
Well, that's the whole point, haha. I love how Christianity is dark as hell, when you look at it closely. It's not like I'm going to write a Christian book, haha.
Doooo iiiittttt!!!
I might!