Thank you for the invitation, I will surely drop by, do consider releasing your work, it is the destiny of the work to be known and appreciate by other.
Why I never heard about the game? I google as soon as I open my laptop, I wonder what kind of game it is if it can hook you this much
It's on several game sites, but I belong to Big Fish Games, and got addicted to Hidden Object games many years ago (my first one was a game adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo - which I enjoyed so much that I tracked down an unabridged copy of the novel).
Over the years, so many of the hidden object games in the fantasy genre became about female protagonists, using such a narrow pool of voice actors that they just got to be the same old-same old and very predictable. This game has male protagonists, the primary villain is female, and I'd never heard any of the voice actors before. So that in itself was enough to sit up and take notice.
And then I played the demo game... and instantly wanted MORE. Just more of everything - I wanted to know about
all the characters, including the ones who only show up briefly, and even the villains (any good villain has his/her point of view and never think of themselves as evil). I wanted to explore what happened before the game began, the "in between" scenes we didn't get to see between the times when the characters left one location and showed up in another, and of course what happened after the ending. After all, Griffinvale ended up with a king who didn't know he was the true heir until earlier that day and was never trained for kingship, what's going to happen next? In the opening narration he's referred to as "The last great king of Griffinvale" so I wondered what he does to merit being called "great" and why is he the last of them?
Inquiring minds want to know, so that's when I decided I needed to write this. I have a couple of notebooks' full of notes, and started writing November 1, for the main NaNoWriMo event last year (more about that in A&E) and haven't missed a day since.
Anyway, this is the game that inspired all this writing:
Kingmaker: Rise to the Throne
I do intend to post it some day, when it's finished to my satisfaction. It's a very long project, and I want to do it justice. Someone on another forum has also asked to see it, so I'm in the midst of tweaking a scene I am satisfied with and would be willing to share (it's pre-game material that takes place years before the opening scenes of the game; since the two main protagonists are 30 years old, that leaves a lot of their lives unexplored and I've been taking advantage of that).
I won't post a photo of my writing setup, so you'll just have to imagine me sitting at a table with my laptop, an ever-present can of something carbonated at hand (diet variety), some sort of munchies (occasionally nutritious), with Maddy close by either snoozing or demanding attention. Sometimes I've got music in the background, as I'm imagining some of the scenes in the story being accompanied by Celtic music of the Enya sort, sometimes by the music Will Millar wrote in his post-Irish Rovers career. And sometimes Simon and Garfunkel is running through my mind when the scenes turn a bit dark, mood-wise, since I'm putting my version of the characters through some things only hinted at or briefly mentioned in the game.
(only with less shading and more cyberpunk colours)
