Aug 20 2008
DOL is ready!
I finished the last of the to-do list for DOL today, which means it is ready to open. I’m going to be out of state from Friday through Sunday, though, so it’s officially opening on Monday, the 25th. I am exceedingly excited (mostly because I keep forgetting about the worst parts of opening: advertising and waiting.)
I also started working on the next game that’s going to open up: it’s called Bexleigh Glen, and it’s set at a renaissance faire. I’m being good and only having minor characters- Anya and Richard. I could make them main characters, but I’m going to have four characters at the HP game (there aren’t main or minor characters in that game) and two main characters in the horror game, one at each school, so I decided two minor characters in this game would be fine. Anya is a rose girl, and Richard (Rich to his friends, Dick to everyone else) is one of the pickle guys. There’s still lots and lots to do, and it’s probably going to take a while to get done once I actually open DOL since I’ll have other stuff to do, but that’s okay. No rush.
I’m still a little unsure of the details for the horror game- which is fine, really, since there’s a good chance it won’t go up until after the HP game. Part of me wants to do zombies because it would fit the details better, and part of me wants to do vampires, but there are so many ways the vampire game could go wrong. For one, the Twilight hordes could try to make them sparkly. Or the Anne Rice fans could try to make them all apparently instantly gay once turned. Mostly, if I do vampires, I don’t want them to be cool: I want them to be horrible, terrifying undead things. Maybe if I don’t make vampires a playable character type? People would be forced to be terrified humans. It’s a thought.
I’m also fiddling with my HP game idea. It’s going to be set much sooner to the present than AVA was; probably the grandkids of the “New Generation” we met in the Deathly Hallows epilogue. I’m also going to do a much more restricted game play this time around; new characters have to start off as first years. Any older characters- older students, professors, ghosts, paintings, etcetera- will all be NPCs. It’ll sort of go back to the Harry Potter books of learning about the world as you grow up at school, which I think will be neat. It’s also the reason why there aren’t any main or minor character distinctions for the HP game- characters and NPCs only. I’m going to have to fiddle with post requirements, too. I admit to being very excited for this one, so it’ll probably end up being the next game to go up after Bexleigh Glen, with the horror one following it.
I am really, really not looking forward to advertising, and I really hope that it doesn’t take me three months to get a few dedicated players. Ames looks good for NOTW, though- her character is made of win. I only hope I continue to attract such players.
At any rate, I’m heading to bed. More plotting tomorrow, I’m sure!
Autumn // Kat
Dan is already over there, yay! I hope this all turns out to be as much fun as I’m imagining it will.