Above is official art of Paper Soul Theater
W hen UA Records called ELO to ask what the band wanted to name their first album, no one answered the phone. This was written down, and someone later mistook "No Answer" to be the name of the album.
We are often that caller: waiting to hear what to do, receiving no answer. How many times have you found yourself with the the power to choose the next step, but were faced with no clear answer or desire? How many times could you've done anything but knew you could pick one? Surely all the time; when you choose what to say, to wear, how to spend your only time on Earth.
It can be scary. Sometimes life feels like a Chess game, only you don't know the rules. Choices can plague us for years. After all, the hardest part of deciding is in the reflection; we may never know if we made the right choice, because we never get an answer.
I dread having to make hard choices as a game developer/producer. Do I go with my writer's idea or do I keep things the same? Maybe I'll make a game for a year only to find that I have done the wrong thing so long before.
Games are different. I prefer ones that dare to be thought provoking. Take Bioshock for example; There are many times in that game when you must make big decisions and I never felt like I was totally right for doing what I choose. A game like that sticks with you.
Aponi, the player in Paper Soul Theater, is faced with one of the oldest questions of mankind: "Do I continue to have faith in this religion?" Imagine how it would feel to be told the future by a holy messenger, yet the thing you're told won't become true for years and has no sign of happening. Two years later, imagine having to wonder if any of that actually happened, with still no sign of the future event. You have left your life behind to go on a journey that may be completely pointless, so do you have the guts to keep going?
You will need to make hard decisions in most battles. Sometimes if you try your very hardest, you can talk others out of fighting you, but to do that is near impossible, often not even worth your time. Do you have the moral strength to drag yourself through the mud? -And muddy, will be right and wrong. If you ask me what you should do, you will get no answer, because life is filled with mind-melting uncertainty and I want you all to confront this horror.
So Tell Us: What was one of the hardest decisions you ever made in a game?
W hen UA Records called ELO to ask what the band wanted to name their first album, no one answered the phone. This was written down, and someone later mistook "No Answer" to be the name of the album.
We are often that caller: waiting to hear what to do, receiving no answer. How many times have you found yourself with the the power to choose the next step, but were faced with no clear answer or desire? How many times could you've done anything but knew you could pick one? Surely all the time; when you choose what to say, to wear, how to spend your only time on Earth.
It can be scary. Sometimes life feels like a Chess game, only you don't know the rules. Choices can plague us for years. After all, the hardest part of deciding is in the reflection; we may never know if we made the right choice, because we never get an answer.
I dread having to make hard choices as a game developer/producer. Do I go with my writer's idea or do I keep things the same? Maybe I'll make a game for a year only to find that I have done the wrong thing so long before.
Games are different. I prefer ones that dare to be thought provoking. Take Bioshock for example; There are many times in that game when you must make big decisions and I never felt like I was totally right for doing what I choose. A game like that sticks with you.
Aponi, the player in Paper Soul Theater, is faced with one of the oldest questions of mankind: "Do I continue to have faith in this religion?" Imagine how it would feel to be told the future by a holy messenger, yet the thing you're told won't become true for years and has no sign of happening. Two years later, imagine having to wonder if any of that actually happened, with still no sign of the future event. You have left your life behind to go on a journey that may be completely pointless, so do you have the guts to keep going?
You will need to make hard decisions in most battles. Sometimes if you try your very hardest, you can talk others out of fighting you, but to do that is near impossible, often not even worth your time. Do you have the moral strength to drag yourself through the mud? -And muddy, will be right and wrong. If you ask me what you should do, you will get no answer, because life is filled with mind-melting uncertainty and I want you all to confront this horror.
So Tell Us: What was one of the hardest decisions you ever made in a game?