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Design Philosophy
Basically, what I wanted to do was create a game that I would enjoy playing – and hopefully that would make it a game that other adventure game fans would also enjoy. I’ve played most of the games in the Reality on the Norm series, and wanted to start out by making a RON game because it would be easier (as the character graphics are ready-made – if I drew them they’d look terrible!) and it would enable me to give something back to the RON community.
The AGS (Adventure Game Studio) engine for creating adventure games makes it easy to make a game without much programming knowledge – or even without any at all. This system has grown in leaps and bounds since I first tried it out a few years ago and has been used to create countless freeware games and even some commercial ones. (While it is not necessarily restricted to just creating adventure games, that is its primary purpose.) I’ve tinkered with it several times but never got very far until in 2006 when I made a concerted effort to actually finish a game I’d started making. I planned to create a simple single-screen game just to get used to it, but as always with me the original small, simple design turned into something much larger – and with my love of writing an intricate storyline was forming in my head. Thus “The Life of Death” was born.
While complicated scripting is possible in AGS, my abilities to use this are limited and my experiments in creating more complex scripts (or even sometimes quite simple ones) have been somewhat disastrous. I don’t want to spend hours trying to get one piece of code working properly when I could be spending that time adding locations, objects and puzzles to the game, so generally speaking if I can’t get something to work, I’ll be finding a way round it using an easier solution. I want this game to be finished in my lifetime, after all!! So you won’t find evidence of the cleverest scripting or intricate logic puzzles in my games, but what you will find is a lot of old-fashioned, good old adventuring fun and objects aplenty.
Only one thing is left to say – I really hope you enjoy my game(s)!
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