Thousand Dollar Soul

God’s Assassin is now written and available for public beta testing! I am in the copy editing/debugging phase now. You can play the beta here: http://we-are-1.net/CYOA_1.swf

I’ve sent the game to about a dozen people who privately requested it, but so far I have received ZERO feedback. Not a peep from a single person. So maybe it’s terrible, but if so, just tell me it’s terrible and why you think so! Or if you have other feedback, that’d be good too.

The best way to leave feedback would be to send me a private message over Kongregate, or email me at greg@kongregate.com. I will read and respond to ALL feedback. So please just send it. If you find any spelling/grammatical errors (or other errors, such as jumps going to the wrong place or the wrong characters/emotions being displayed), then I’d like to hear about those as well.

Halcyonic Falcon X (Epic Battle Fantasy musician) is currently working on the music. Sample track here: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/545373

Also, the main character in God’s Assassin will have an eyepatch in the final art; you might notice a reference or two to this in the text.

Okay, I am no longer trying to provide an estimate for the release of God’s Assassin. Apparently it’s been 1 month away from release for about 6 months now.

But I am still working on it almost every single day. It is mainly being delayed because I keep adding more and more to it. I’m going to keep writing/editing until I’ve made it as good as I can, then I guess I’ll have to eventually bite the bullet and actually release it.

I want to thank everyone for all the feedback and private messages I continue getting for Thousand Dollar Soul. The feedback really keeps me going; I would need to be a better writer to properly express the impact it’s made on me.

I am still planning a third installment (“Reality Tunnels”) that will serve as a direct sequel to Thousand Dollar Soul. (God’s Assassin is more of a parallel story with different characters in the same universe with a much lighter/comedic tone.) There is one particular ending in Thousand Dollar Soul that will likely be considered “canon” for the purpose of Reality Tunnels. (spoiler: probably the ending where Angela inserts the earpiece in Africa)

I might write Reality Tunnels as a linear illustrated novel. I haven’t decided yet. Reality Tunnels will be told from the first-person perspectives of Todd, Angela, Clint and Faith (the central character in God’s Assassin). So on one hand it’s really cool to think about all the different decision splits between all the different characters and how the events would sync up across alternate paths (I already have the main story events planned out), but on the other hand, I’m thinking that maybe splitting the story into 4 perspectives is already convoluted enough, and maybe I could tell the story better if I could really just focus on one single linear narrative that I have total control over.

I have not finalized what the structure will be, but I can promise that I will not charge any money for it, even if it’s a full-blown novel released on Kindle or something.

God’s Assassin is now about a month away from release! So much for April/May, but the art and text are both 90% done.

Please send me (greg) a private message over Kongregate if you’d like to try it out and provide feedback!

Okay, I give up on getting that Google Doc link to work.

I’m shooting for an April/May release of God’s Assassin, the second installment in what is planned to be a three-part series. All three games will be inter-connected, but it will not be necessary to read them in any particular order, much like how it’s not necessary to get endings in any particular order. You’ll just get a better idea of the overall story arc the more games you play and endings you read, but each individual ending in each individual game will remain a self-contained story.

The third story is still in early conceptual phases. The tentative title is “Reality Tunnels”; it will tie the first two games together and act much like a direct sequel to Thousand Dollar Soul.

It took me until now to finally get some ideas for the setting and events. Now I just need to actually write it…