I'm a writer, and I would like to help out a Christian game design company. I'll help out doing any kind of short-story-type writing, completely free, for anyone who needs help.

I'm also an amateur game designer; I've worked on trying to make a couple pen and paper games (just for fun), but they were never finished due to lack of support and help. I AM NOT A PROGRAMMER, just a designer. I can write up concepts for characters, histories, and things of that nature.

Like I said, I'll do this for free for whoever needs me. If you're the most obscure group in the whole world, I'll still help out. I'm only going to take on one project at a time, and that will be for the first person who either replies to this post or contacts me via email or IM (see below).

If you want to see a sample of my work, just let me know. I prefer writing or designing in the LOTR-type fantasy or futuristic genres.

CONTACT INFO:
Email- pstudio@attglobal.net
AIM- CaptainZer0338
ICQ- 174989644 (Nickname: binary_fusion)
YIM- ancientwarrior99

If you want to talk to me on AIM, you will need to let me know through another means of contact first; it is set up so that people can't talk to me unless they are on my buddy list (to avoid strange people).

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Originally posted by vincent:
Hey, would you be interesting in developing a story for a Christian RPG?

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I'm going to ask around to see if I can find someone who can do graphics; but like I said in the other topic, don't count on me being able to find anything.

i sort of have experience with rules and stuff.... a lot of the games i start (on my own) dont get finished, due to lack of support from friends and stuff. but if i was in a group with other people to help me, it would be easier for me to keep going.

For me a RPG has to be console like. So, you'll walk around in this huge world with all kinds of different creatures and places and sceneries. Unfortunatly I'm not really a good graphics artist, though I can draw a bit. The rules in the game have to be solid. The quests too. There has to be one main quest, which consists of several sub-quests and sub-sub-quests and maybe some bonus quests... or secret quests.. just to increase strenght or something. Magic is possible, but can never be used for your own gain.. something like that.

Maybe using a concept for "magic" based on what the disciples had- the ability to preform miracles. Miracles such as healing, exorcism, and others.

I'm kind of writing this on the fly, so it might not make too much sense. It also might not match up with how you want the game to be. Just let me know.

If you want a lotr-fantasy Christian game, I think the best way might be to take concepts from the Bible itself and just use them as a loose base.

I also need to know what kind of RPG this is going to be.

1. Are we talking about any multiplayer capabilities, or single player
only? Either way is fine with me; I just need an idea so I can work on it.

2. This may be my job, but are you planning on having player be able to pick starting classes (Fighter, Barbarian, Ranger, etc) and races (Elf, Human, Dwarf.....), or will the storyline run along the adventures of a pre-created character or characters?

3. Is this for the computer or is it pen and paper?

4. Will the player control 1 character or more than 1 character?

I'll probably ask you other stuff later, but that's all I can think of for now.

1. Multiplayer would be a bit hard at first. I think we should start out building it single player with a engine which is flexible enough to port it to a mutli player game if the time comes. So, first one guy.

2. I think this is up to you. If you could write quests that are completed using multiple type of characters with different abilities than that would be fine by me.

3. Computer... definatly computer. baldurs gate layout style, though a cool ruleset could be incorperated.

4. Well, this is really a matter of question 2. If we incorperate different races and classes then it would be cool if we would have party-mode. This would also greatly enhance the mutliplayer support, yet on the other hand I'm a bit scared that it might blow the scale of the project to universal proportions. Maybe we should first develop a singleplayer single class quest with a guy who starts out on this quest thing... maybe with some configurable stats like strenght and intelligence, and if we get it finished we could always add more stuff later on.

All I guess I wanna do is develop the game engine and such. The creativity of the game is yours. You can place it anywhere at any time. Ofcourse, I do have a huge imagination too, so I will provide comments and input. if I agree with a setup you provide, we migth start developing. But first I guess i need to find a graphics artist. Someone who can closely match the professional, cause I can draw very well, just not good enough.

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Originally posted by Flare:
Because this is a Christian game, we would have to think about how to incorporate magic-type abilities into it without going against the Bible. Words like "spell", I think, need to be used as little as possible, if at all. I don't mind having enemy characters using darker magic, as they are meant to represent the greater Enemy, but good characters need to stay as far away as possible.

Maybe using a concept for "magic" based on what the disciples had- the ability to preform miracles. Miracles such as healing, exorcism, and others.

I'm kind of writing this on the fly, so it might not make too much sense. It also might not match up with how you want the game to be. Just let me know.

If you want a lotr-fantasy Christian game, I think the best way might be to take concepts from the Bible itself and just use them as a loose base.

I also need to know what kind of RPG this is going to be.

1. Are we talking about any multiplayer capabilities, or single player
only? Either way is fine with me; I just need an idea so I can work on it.

2. This may be my job, but are you planning on having player be able to pick starting classes (Fighter, Barbarian, Ranger, etc) and races (Elf, Human, Dwarf.....), or will the storyline run along the adventures of a pre-created character or characters?

3. Is this for the computer or is it pen and paper?

4. Will the player control 1 character or more than 1 character?

I'll probably ask you other stuff later, but that's all I can think of for now.

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Uh, is there some way I can contact you other than these boards? Do you have any instant messengers? An email?

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Originally posted by Flare:
OK, will-do. I'll start working on some concepts and stuff.

Uh, is there some way I can contact you other than these boards? Do you have any instant messengers? An email?

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best would be to e-mail me at my normal addy. Please don't use it for forwards, or add the addy in some mail with mutliple recepients. vincentNOSPAM<dot>nazarene<dot>nl Remove the nospam, and the <dot>'s are actual dots (.) .. I just dislike receiving spam.

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Originally posted by vincent:
I just dislike receiving spam.

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I can't blame you. I'll email you in a little bit here.

Uh, your email is confusing me greatly. I really don't understand it. Can you leave me a Private Message or something without the <dot>s and the nospam and all that? I'm just really not understanding what you mean.

[This message has been edited by Flare (edited December 28, 2002).]

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[This message has been edited by Flare (edited December 30, 2002).]

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Originally posted by vincent:

best would be to e-mail me at my normal addy. Please don't use it for forwards, or add the addy in some mail with mutliple recepients. vincentNOSPAM<dot>nazarene<dot>nl Remove the nospam, and the <dot>'s are actual dots (.) .. I just dislike receiving spam.

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Flare - I think Vincent meant something like this (remove the spaces & convert the brackets to Shift+2 and then the DOT which is the period):
vincent <AT SIGN> nazarene <PERIOD> nl