Monthly Archives: February 2012

The Cat Knight Chapter 1

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A Hunt

by Joseph Bush

 

The Cat Knight Cover“Listen closely, Priest, and I will tell you why I am so reluctant in this task,” the knight said, taking his time positioning himself for the deathblow. The young girl below his glimmering mirror sword cowered and whimpered pathetically in the dirt path outside the hamlet.

“She is but a soulless monster, sir knight! Do away with this evil.”

“Firstly, my companion and I have much more pressing business to pursue. A demon runs rampant and I stand here wasting my time on your errand,” the furious knight fumed. Continue reading →

Trucker

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Being the most successful serial killer in New England is not as easy as it sounds. Really. It takes a lot of lying, cheating, and stealing. It also requires way more honesty than you’d imagine.
I’m not going to tell you my secrets, because my publisher would probably get sued for publishing a how-to on murder. He doesn’t deserve it. Me on the other hand, I’m a whole different kettle of fish.

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Construct2 and the widest market

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Construct2 is a game engine. I know I go through these things like a hot katana through butter, but this one has a certain benefit: it’s output is HTML5.

What this means is that unlike RenPy or Unity, we could feasibly publish a game to essentially anything that has the internet. That’s a pretty wide market. It also lowers the barrier to entry, so that all a potential user/reader has to do is visit the site. That’s a pretty powerful marketing tool. The more free, the better, the easier to access, the better. It’s all about making it so easy to get into the game that it’d be silly not to. Like World of Warcraft. It’s harder NOT to sign up than it is to actually sign up.

Diagram of Construct2 Visual Novel SysemAt any rate, here’s an interesting chart. I’ve found that there’s not a lot of people doing visual novels on Construct2 but it seems to be able to support the concept after a day’s investigation. So here’s our plan of making it work. It involves some ajax loading and csv funkiness, but ultimately, we’d be able to write games in open office and publish them out into Construct2. Pretty slick. Now I just have to roust my lazy artist self to do some real work.