Sunday, September 28, 2014

Characters section and script development updates.

http://darkpaladinsofknox.blogspot.com/p/characters.html

I've updated the characters section with a massive list of characters I feel are locked in. Much of my script involves most of these characters, so I'm confident they won't change much, if any, hence I'm sharing them. I may add more characters as I finalize them, but I'm taking a cautious approach, because my mod has several murder mystery elements, so I must be careful not to trap myself in plot holes.

You may notice a major trend with some of my characters are dark ones with questionable motivations. This is not a coincidence, as I was inspired by Demonheart. I enjoy characters the protagonist can't fully trust. To achieve trust in a character makes them boring. I want characters who make the protagonist uncomfortable, so if they unsettle you, mission accomplished.

As I continue to expand the script, I'm now up to 32,000 words and counting. In comparison, that's about half the length of Demonheart chapter 1 (69,000 words), so if I use that as a reference, then I have a rough idea where I need to cut my mod short to break it up into a second part. I feel like I'm nowhere even close to telling the full story, which is good because I want to provide as much content to you all as possible.

My script is getting to the point where I'm going to start developing some of the actual mod now. I have a few random scenes I've created for testing purposes, which work flawlessly, but it's time to start taking advantage of the script and providing some in-game screenshots.