Maybe you want to play a thug or a bully. Well, it's great for you, but not so hot for everyone else. Your word is law, and that isn't necessarily a good thing.
#AVADON THE BLACK FORTRESS GUID HOW TO#
You need to protect your people, and you are given a lot of leeway for how to do it.īut there are also hints that your power is too great. So the first step is to place the player in a position of power and responsibility.
This has appeal to a lot of gamers, myself included. You have power, and you get to choose how to use it. Role-playing games work best when they are, at some level, power fantasies. And you work for Avadon, a secretive and powerful force that hunts down and destroys those who would disrupt the safety and stability of the Pact. So you are a citizen of the Pact, five nations that have banded together to keep the barbarians and monsters at bay. When I am designing a new area or town or set of characters, these are the questions I go back to for ideas and inspiration. This is a set of vague questions and ideas that determine the choices and quests the player will face. For Avadon to succeed, I have to make it interesting. My main weapon is the ability to tell a good story, so I focus on that. Fancy graphics and sounds aren't going to happen. What will the player be doing? How will I get the player emotionally involved? What gripping choices will the player make? You see, I make small budget games. Once I had the skeleton of a plot and setting, I think about how the game will "feel". It might be a little bit technical and vague though, so if you aren't interested in the artsy parts of game design, you should probably wait until the next part, when I get into the game system and the cool number-based hacky-choppy stuff. This process took weeks of thought and is worth attention.
So the next step was to decide on the theme, the mood, and the choices. Now I needed to decide what sort of game I was going to write. If you haven't seen it already and want some hard information about what the new game will be like, it's a good place to start. We recently gave a long interview about Avadon, with a lot of information about the storyline and game system. The first installment was about the source of the idea and the basic framework of the plot, which came together fairly quickly.
#AVADON THE BLACK FORTRESS GUID SERIES#
These articles are about the ongoing process of developing our new series of games. Here is another long overdue developer diary for our next game, Avadon: The Black Fortress.
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