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It was a tumultuous time to be an RPG fan back in the 1990's. In fact, for a lot of us old timers around here the 1990's were pretty the golden age of gaming where it wasn't all about the high resolution graphics of today or the "Hey, look, I can move in 12 different directions now" – it was about the memorable experiences and the incredible leaps of innovation that gaming companies strived to achieve back then.

Hey everyone. Hope you're doing well. The past two weeks have seen me work my butt off in designing the characters for the Adult Arc. I've been drawing, erasing, redrawing, erasing again, smashing random objects in frustration relaxing with a cup of tea when I get irked by the lack of progress. Today, I finally have something to show you. These are the concept art for each of the party members you will be controlling. I'm posting them here instead of on the images page because these are just CONCEPT images. They still require some tweaking before I'll call them done. Alright, here we go:

What if you could separate the activity of science from the human researchers who conduct it? Automate it, in fact? Imagine creating a bot that does physics experiments and builds an internal model of the world based on those experiments. This is what I call 'Thalience'.

Aether Pulse, as a game, has always had only a barest of plots half-formed in my head. During the 2-Day Do Something challenge, I aimed to remedy that.

HBGames.org is holding a game making event, the first prize being a copy of RPG Maker VX Ace! Join now! Submission deadline is February 28th.

Gaming Advice With Professor Know-It-All

Congratulations, good man. By directing your time and efforts from working on the next killer app for an old engine that nobody has used since 1997, you've just made someone's day and given yourself a couple of points in overall community service! Now don't you feel all warm and accomplished inside?

"...that he gave his only son, that whosoever should believe in him would not perish, but have eternal life."
(John 3: 16)

Writing a playable religious game, especially one based on Christianity, is tough. In fact, I'll go out on a limb and say that writing about being a serial killer, a mecha pilot, or a dragon-slaying RPG hero is very, very easy compared to pulling off a game that deals with any particular world religion. How do you write a game and not a tract? Where do you draw the line between gameplay and evangelization? What liberties should you take (or not take) with the source text?

kentona (the RTP maven) is attempting to make a game with self-made custom resources! Is this a sign of the apocalypse? Probably. Check out the game in progress now!

Fey is an ABS-based game that tells the story of Landon, who I think is searching for an artefact called the fire stone in order to save a relative; the truth is that I actually don't have a clue what the motive behind their quest is because the storytelling is incredibly fragmented. The background to the story is told through a series of flashbacks that unravel themselves as the quest progresses, the problem being that the gaps between each flash-back are too large for anything to really stick.

Jude and Brickroad are creating a unique hero party simulation where you manage heroes, organize them into parties, and dispatch them on various adventures across the world.

It's that time of the year again: to the Misao Awards. Feel free to discuss which games deserve to nab each award category, or explore the variety of games discussed.