Hey, I wanted to talk about the game I am making a little bit to see what people think of the idea and get some reactions. The thing is, I've been working on it for at least six months now and I haven't gotten much feedback on it, and I just want to at least vent a little bit about the process I'm working to see if anyone has anything to say, or has any criticism or even ideas as to why it could succeed famously or fail brilliantly.

The concept of my game, ExXception Draft, is, in a world much like our own, only, it is the mid 1990's and yet somehow more futuristic, the government reacts to a series of school shootings and a video-game-related bank robbery by enacting some extreme measures to ban violent media, especially violent video games. And the gameplay involves a character who then takes this as his impetus for wreaking havok on the populace in the form of games. Setting up games, aiming for broad social experiments more than sadistic 'Saw' death traps, or even 'Joker'-like savage satire, and often hounding the CIA agents on his trail reading the clues in his wake. Viewing creative expression as an important outlet and the freedom of speech as sacred are implicit to this 'gamemaker', and yet, taken a step further, by intepreting (key word) the actions of the government as telling people what they are capable (another key word) of experiencing (major key word), they are enforcing not only a way of life, but a life, not just lived a certain way... but directed a certain way. As if, you could do whatever you want, sure, they would be saying to us, but only if you follow this single file line through these serpentine corridors while you attempt to do so.

So, my "game" inevitably interprets the "philosophy of games" as a philosophy of life, and takes a stance of game = testing experience, which is a possible set up for an ideal of experimentation, a world of bold living out of possibilities, possibly, perhaps, literally utopia (no-place) where one can dream of imaginary worlds that are-not but can-be.

http://exxceptiondraft.tumblr.com/
http://rpgmaker.net/games/3482/

I’m setting up all the locations in my game with “real” locations in google earth. Don’t know if I’m going to do something especially useful with it in the game, but it’s neat to map everything out. Mainly doing it to keep track of everything. This is the paranormal investigator’s HQ, which is now located in Eureka Valley, in San Francisco, somewhere on Diamond St.

Gotta figure out how to combine items, but other than that...

I've been working on the game a lot and the story is progressing nicely. Have learned a lot of RPG Maker XP.