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Hmmm...the boy Ice has done his own column thing, and I haven't gone ranting about alternative heroes for a while (though with the current contest, I don't really need to) so I think it's time for another scary look into my hopes for a d-mod...
It all began many years ago, when I was merely knee high to a grasshopper, and for christmas, me and my brother Arik recieved the game "Dungeons and Dragons".
I have since been trapped in the world of the imagination, in epic battles and mighty warriors, the history of mighty races that have fallen, and the evil that always seems to plague every land.
Many things came and went, in an effort to handle my obsession with creating...from D+D to Warhammer, to AD+D, to Vampire and so on and so forth.
But nothing could quite hold me in the way I wanted it to. In none of these could I create the wonderful adventures, tales and escapades of great heroes that I so wished to do.
Then came Dink...
It was great, I played it through, and while this is blasphemy, let's all be honest. Compared to most CRPG's, it was poo. It was slow, with a poor plot and no real zest. The humour made up for a lot of it (as did beheading Ducks) but when lined up against, Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Torment, Baldurs Gate et al, it seemed like a small child surrounded by thugs with baseball bats.
Yet while these thugs looked tough, they stopped growing at 6 feet tall, with arms like steel girders. Dink didn't, and hasn't stopped. It is now a behemoth capable of eating these thugs for breakfast.
Why? Because of the charm that grows on you. Because of Dinks unique character. And mostly because of the amount of wonderful d-mods that surpass the original game.
But I'm rambling...The point is that I could finally create my own worlds, with a much higher degree of satisfaction, and there was an audience just waiting to explore my worlds!
But I have always been struck by the simple anime type graphics of Chronotrigger, and Final Fantasy, and that is where my dream lies. The Dink engine is perfectly suited to having this style of graphical splendour, yet nobody has done it. I want to, but I would need the graphics made for me.
The graphics would be much easier to create than many that have been made, but nobody has done it. Oh well...
Hmmm...this article seems to have gone on about nothing really for a long time now, but I hope somebody gets the point of it. If they do it will be worthwhile, if not, I enjoyed writing it, so it doesn't matter.
Who else is madly in love with the worlds in their head?
It all began many years ago, when I was merely knee high to a grasshopper, and for christmas, me and my brother Arik recieved the game "Dungeons and Dragons".
I have since been trapped in the world of the imagination, in epic battles and mighty warriors, the history of mighty races that have fallen, and the evil that always seems to plague every land.
Many things came and went, in an effort to handle my obsession with creating...from D+D to Warhammer, to AD+D, to Vampire and so on and so forth.
But nothing could quite hold me in the way I wanted it to. In none of these could I create the wonderful adventures, tales and escapades of great heroes that I so wished to do.
Then came Dink...
It was great, I played it through, and while this is blasphemy, let's all be honest. Compared to most CRPG's, it was poo. It was slow, with a poor plot and no real zest. The humour made up for a lot of it (as did beheading Ducks) but when lined up against, Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Torment, Baldurs Gate et al, it seemed like a small child surrounded by thugs with baseball bats.
Yet while these thugs looked tough, they stopped growing at 6 feet tall, with arms like steel girders. Dink didn't, and hasn't stopped. It is now a behemoth capable of eating these thugs for breakfast.
Why? Because of the charm that grows on you. Because of Dinks unique character. And mostly because of the amount of wonderful d-mods that surpass the original game.
But I'm rambling...The point is that I could finally create my own worlds, with a much higher degree of satisfaction, and there was an audience just waiting to explore my worlds!
But I have always been struck by the simple anime type graphics of Chronotrigger, and Final Fantasy, and that is where my dream lies. The Dink engine is perfectly suited to having this style of graphical splendour, yet nobody has done it. I want to, but I would need the graphics made for me.
The graphics would be much easier to create than many that have been made, but nobody has done it. Oh well...
Hmmm...this article seems to have gone on about nothing really for a long time now, but I hope somebody gets the point of it. If they do it will be worthwhile, if not, I enjoyed writing it, so it doesn't matter.
Who else is madly in love with the worlds in their head?
