WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT? (GAME DEVELOPMENT EDITION)

Okay, so the musician/band Those Who Ride With Giants has some absolutely PHENOMENAL music, which is atmospheric and inspired by a lot of prog rock bands as well as movie and game scores, and whenever I listen to it I get these visions of a sort of cinematic game-like experience. So, I'm thinking of putting together an atmospheric puzzle platformer, using his music as the soundtrack if I can get his permission to do so. The game would either be non-commercial, or all proceeds would go to him, but basically I just want to take the inspiration his music gives me and give it life. If you haven't heard his music, look it up, it's breathtaking and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

The game itself would use each song as a level soundtrack, with an overarching story that progresses through each album, and could be considered episodic with future episodes and levels released as more music becomes available. Just what I'm thinking about, not sure how the actual execution will go.

For a while I was working on a game for a while that initially started as "Twisted Destiny" that was inspired by a lot of things. Games I've played like Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, 4Gems, Danny's Adventure 1, 2, Call of the Archon. I was trying to make an epic. And indeed, things about Twisted Destiny are epic, though I ended up making it go against the creation story. Eventually it turned into Twisted Fate. It's still a game that maybe someday I can get done. It has a lot going on in the story and I'm trying to make it not too linear, Crystals that were created by the Adamu, a species that pre-existed in Terra, and then given down to the Kings and Queens of Terra, though King Grigori and Sorcerer Barbatos had differences. The Dark World is opened by Barbatos and he joins in legion with the devil god CZERNEBOG and devil lord MEPHISTO where they bane to take over Terra...I wrote the entire thing and it gets very crazy. There were three wars to happen, though the WAR OF THE DEMON MACHINES was the last war, where Barbatos unleashes demons infused with machines and magic that nearly wipes out half the population of Terra, thus King Grigori punishes him into the Dark World never to see the light of mankind again. Though it is not just Barbatos interested, CZERNEBOG and MEPHISTO are slowly creeping back into the world to reclaim 'what is theirs'.... It's not just about Crystal collecting, there's a lot of fighting against the darkness. Because life is about enduring constant shit.

I also had other ideas for games: THE DARK DREAMERS, a "dream game" kinda dissimilar to Twisted Fate but it's about a family who has been separated into the dream fugue where they must restore the dream fugue's natural order, as Morpheus and his (cult?) The Summoners of Memory, need help defeating the nightmare lord MEPHISTOPHELES, though even Morpheus is revealed to be an enemy.

Then, more. LEGENDS OF INFINITE - another RPGMaker2k3 game and comics I was doing around middle school - teenagers summoned into the spiritual world of Infinite where it is a bit like THE STAND where there are those summoned unto the Light Castle, and the Dark Castle, and then those stuck in between in the spiritual world of Infinite. It's kinda funny because I keep repeating similar themes throughout a lot of my games and stories. A really old one I had somewhere that disappeared called FATAL DESTINY (not Twisted Destiny) that was about overcoming a demon named ESTURK (DQ much), then I wanted to redo old games into newer games like NIGHTMARE OF THE ELVEN WORLD and DANNY's ADVENTURE - BEYOND NIGHTMARE OF THE ELVEN WORLD, and DANNY's ADVENTURE 3. I wanted BEYOND to have a more extended magic spells and same with Danny's Adventure because the original people just used the bare minimum most likely because HI I MAKE AN RPG MAKER GAME. :/ DANNY'S ADVENTURE 3 would have been about defeating ISIS and defeating the egyptian gods SET and SOBEK. Maybe. The list grows though. Egh. Thanks writers block, bills, work, life.

Back to RPG Maker XV Ace, only on safe mode, since I can't work on the others to test play. Can only use MZ if I just work on my games there. Alter Fate is coming along, only to go though some dialogue fixes. I started over again though playing though the game to get to the latest part of the game, which I hope will continue the story further in.

yeah i never get the adoration of maps like this because you never really get to see the scope of it ingame and could be a performance hog if there's just enough process heavy events. there are far more impressive games that can stream an endless open world without loading screens and at least 3D has the advantage of angles and vistas. whereas I feel like area to area transitions in an rpgmaker game are more expected with the focus on individual areas being as relatively pretty (and less work for the dev).