Recent content by Roddy

Great stuff, thanks folks!

Do you work off a template and/or a flowchart? If so, which one?

The very first thing I did when he asked me to write the story was draw a map. This is what I came up with... (I did it scratched out on paper and he rendered like this. We've added further detail to it now. He has put this up on a few game-development sites and forums, and people have made...

Firstly, thank you so much for the tips, it's muchly appreciated. Yes it is my first game. My mate has done a number of smaller games previously, but this is the first of this magnitude for him. He's been working on it alone, for probably an average of 50 hours a week, for more than 5 years. And...

This is exactly the type of discussion I wanted to get into here. How do you overcome these challenges? It's a violent, bloodthirsty combat game, with a disparate band of warriors with super powers, undertaking an epic mission across two worlds, and coming up against all manner of difficulties...

Excellent tips and info, I’ll keep that very much in mind, thanks!!

It’s a sub-genre that interests me greatly, both reading and writing. One of my favourite books of all time is ‘The Great and Secret Show’ by Clive Barker, which would fit into this category. It is absolutely mindboggling. Anyone else into this sub-genre? What are some other great titles I...

Yep, I use it, great tool. Have found an even better one recently, Edson’s ‘The Story Solution’, which breaks that kind of structure/paradigm down even further. He calls it ‘the hero goal sequences’. I highly recommend it.

G’day all, new member from Australia here, very happy to be here. I just put up my first thread on the writing fantasy board, about writing for a fantasy game. Pleased to meet you all, and I’ll see ya’s around the forums.

G’day folks. Brand new to the forum, first post. Like many writers, I have many projects on the go, a major one for me is this: a good friend of mine, a programming and IT guru, has been working on creating and developing his own epic fantasy game for the last 4-5 years. About a year and a half...