Ideas galore.

Creating a mod catering to a mystery genre is daunting. The deeper I finalize all my characters and scripts, the more problematic it becomes avoiding plot holes and other minor discrepancies. I find myself revisiting old scenes I once thought finalized and tweaking minor details. For this reason, I'm still hesitant to release more character info, simply because I'm tweaking them so damn much, but I'll still try to release it soon. As I add more content, it's also becoming increasingly likely I may have to break this mod up into separate chapters/modules, but we'll see.

On a side-note, I recently picked up Divinity: Original Sin (aka DOS) for the PC. It's interesting to play a modern day top-down RPG, and I had hoped to gleam some inspiration from it for my mod. DOS draws some parallels with my mod, although this was purely coincidental. Your characters are templars who hunt magic users called sourcerers (I swear I didn't misspell that), similar to my mod's inquisitors who hunt heretic magic-users. One of the very first DOS quests involves a murder-case. I love murder mystery elements in RPG's, but I always wish they'd push the envelope more, hence one reason for my mod. Of course, I also wished more games would explore dark adult themes, but you know the way the ESRB rating board is. That's the beauty of modding--uninhibited creative freedom for my characters to say and do whatever they want.

I'm also pounding through the popular Persona 4: Golden PSP Vita game. Its major theme includes a murder-mystery, involving a serial killer, leading to an epic "who dun it" confrontation with the culprit. If I had known a murder mystery was the game's central theme, I would have played the original a long time ago!

You could say playing these games is detracting from my modding time, but as a graphic designer, I also know the importance of research and inspiration into my target audience, and I'm convinced my mod is improving daily from these sources. I'm regularly getting struck with "eureka" moments, where I find myself picking up a pencil and jotting down quick notes of epic scenes.