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Day 1: Got a brand-new video game! Can't wait to play it. Just writing this real quick while it's installing.
Day 3:  Guess I'd better get some sleep. I have work tomorrow.
Day 6: Left work early to play game. I don't think the boss noticed.
Day 8: Friday! Cancelled date tonight. Too tired. Think I'll play game.
Day 10: Holy crap, what's that strange light in the sky? Oh, the sun. It's already morning.
Day 11: Turns out it was Sunday morning, not Saturday morning. Missed work entirely. Made up some excuse about being sick.
Day 13: Now when I sleep, all I can see is the game. I hope some of the techniques I dreamed about actually work.
Day 14: They don't. Completely messed up my character build. Have to start over.
Day 15: Weekend! Going to get my character just right this time.
Day 17: This is frustrating. I can't get past this one challenge. Looked all over the internet, but no help.
Day 18: Called in to work. I've got to figure this thing out.
Day 19: Everyone at work was looking at me funny. Finally figured out I hadn't shaved in a while.
Day 20: I needed a new mouse. Left work early to pick one up.
Day 21: Overslept. No one at work is talking to me.
Day 22: Turns out no one was talking to me because I got fired. Can you believe it? Me, fired! Oh, well. Now I'll have some time to play the game in between sending out resumes.
Day 25: I really need to do something about all the pizza boxes.
Day 31: Set up laptop on tray in bathroom. Water within reach. Heard you can live for nearly two weeks without food as long as you have water.
Day 47: I think I may have a problem.
Day 48: Problem solved! It was just I was missing a hint for this one quest.
Day 52: Someone keeps knocking on the door every afternoon, waking me up. It's annoying.
Day 55: Jennifer called to break up with me. I forgot we were even dating.
Day 60: Damn electricity went out. Turns out I hadn't paid the bill. Got that taken care of so I could go back to playing the game.
Day 65: Raining outside. I think there's a leak in the roof. Avoiding that room.
Day 80: I really should look for another job.
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Last time, in "Fantasy Games" , I talked about the writing aspect of fantasy games.
ENB  : My favorite fantasy RP game is Aveyond. (yeah it's an old one and not a lot of people know about it) But the story is awesome and so in depth. I could totally see it being made into a movie.
I have yet to see a movie adaptation of a game that's any good. I hope it happens one day.
Mummsy  : Ah . . . I was wondering where you'd gotten to!  This is what Dr B wants to do - the scriptwriting part of game design.
And from what I've heard, the game would be awesome.
Elfin Dragon-finally published  : You are so right on the amount of time it takes to write a good fantasy RPG story for a computer game. Squaresoft (now Squareenix) is one of the best at making good RPGs for games and they spend several thousand hours at making their games. They do it with storyboards like the comic book writers do and with code and computer graphics. Then, of course, there's the marketing plan. I believe on of the best marketing plans they had was for their game Final Fantasy VII. At the end they said, "And if you die, you can always hit the reset button."
If only that worked in life...
Quick-Quill  : I have read some fantasy in my day, Sword of Sham..Wizards First Rule and some older ones. What I find interesting is the possibility of taking contemporary characters and putting them into fantasy worlds. I loved Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court. Even Tron was interesting. But, what if? In the world of video games, your character actually had to live it, not someone playing the character? What if the easiest game played, that you've won, was real? I remember trying to play Zelda (I'm over 60 so I never got out of the first area) But I loved the world and the playing. If you run into a corner, play the game, what would be the escape you'd have if you could make one up yourself at that moment? What if? is my favorite question.
My favorite games are the ones with a more open world, with more choice trees.
Marci Missing Everyone : I am a huge gamer and a mild writer of fantasy. I love to watch the stories play out in the games I play. Since becoming a writer, I am that much more interested in the story part than I used to be. I love watching the settings, conflicts, and resolutions, and how they pull that off with game play. You really hit the nail on the head when you said it takes a creative effort along with the coding effort to bring it all together. Since I starting writing, I have a new appreciation for all that is involved.
As with any other art, the best of them make it look easy, when it's not.
Loreli : Love your thoughts on D&D. As a gamer for.longer than I care to admit, it's nice to know that some people still remember it. Ones that call themselves gamers, not just the online and MMO types :)
I say that as I go to check the.progress of my Elder Scrolls install progress :)
Thanks for your take on the genre. It's nice to hear some of my own thoughts somewhere but my own head lol
It's always weird when that happens to me 
Eliacie : One of the problems I feel that plagues fantasy is the extreme focus on the milieu or the plot, and very little on character development. I feel a good character drives a story better artefact or quest or epic battle.Another problem is two dimensional characters that will put me right off. Does anybody agree with this? [Submitted Item: "Invalid Item" ]
I'm sure opinions vary about this, but for me, I like a strong, well-developed milieu... that stays out of the way and lets the characters develop.
And that's it for me for this month - unless I get completely lost in the game, I'll see you in June. Until then,
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