Showing posts with label Empire Gaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Empire Gaming. Show all posts

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Game Design Question

So as you can tell, I'm writing a new RPG (isn't everyone nowadays?) and I have a small dilemma; I have one attribute that I want to represent a characters overall personality (charisma/ cool/ allure etc) as well his sense of aesthetics (creative vision/ sense of style/ imagination etc), but I can't think of a good word that encapsulates it.

The way my attributes are structured, I only have room for one attribute to cover it, so I can't split it into two. 

Right now I'm calling it PRESENCE, but that doesn't seem to fit quite right, so I would thought I was ask on here since there are a lot of people out there much smarter than I am.

I was thinking EMPATHY, but I'm not sure if that's right either. Any suggestions?

EDIT: Upon further review, AFFINITY is starting to sound like the right choice.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Empire Gaming RPG: A Pictures Worth A Thousand Words

I was reading a post over at Tenkar's Tavern about PDF's and artwork and it got me thinking...which may be a first for me.

I've been writing a game system for quite a few years now and I'm getting close to completion on it. Which in turn is causing me to think of a lot more things I need to do if I ever want to try and publish it. And Tenkar brought up a good point which may be a problem for me. What do I do for artwork? Since stick figures are difficult for me to draw, and I know that art can make or break a publication based on first impressions, what should I do?

I don't know any artists. I don't know where to find artists or how much they cost if I do find one. I can buy clip art, but as I've never publish anything in my life or even attempted it, I'm not sure what I have to do to use them legally. I would hate to finalize this thing and then get sued because I forgot to get permission for a picture.

Anyone out there that has ever published something have an opinion or advice?