You’re still here! That’s good, seeing how most authors disappear and seem as if they’re abandoning their project. But I like to believe that they aren’t; people get busy, after all.
Sorry for failing to go through with what I said about offering you more feedback, by the way.
Yeah, I’ve been working with college and also fleshing out the world. Also considering a different, more traditional set up for the beginning of the story. Atleast in rough draft form.
I understand. Please, take your time. (Not that you need my permission, but take your time all the same.)
I’ve also fixed up the war that you see at the beginning of the prologue. Gave it a name, Henstrife, and thanks to @childofgod a little more backstory. Like Viking Era Jarls and the High King of Ireland in mythology, the Hen King is elected from the leaders of the realm. Our four principles are eached pushed forward but there isn’t a consensus. So they settle it with the third oldest profession. War.
I don’t know anything about the Viking Era, but the fact that you’re making allusions is interesting enough for me.
About the war, how will you paint the picture for it? Will you put more consideration and emphasis on the brutal aspects of it, or on the effect it has on civilians, or maybe something else?
The Henstrife will be all backstory. There will be more wars later. The game is you rising in ranks in Henlan as a Drythen or War leader. Right now I’m taking time to develop the first few years of your characters life.
Nice and slow approach to character development, then? Or are you still thinking about how to handle that?
It’s one thing I noticed playing Lords of Aswick and Tin Star. Lords of Aswick covers a whole lifetime, and Tin Star covers about a year. But Tin Star is so much fuller than Lords of Aswick. (Love them both!) So part of the character development is filling a characters life.
To the very end? I see. Wish you good progress on that. I’m doing the same thing with the protagonist of my game, although its a less obvious approach to living a ‘full life’.
There’s just something amazing about experiencing a character’s life story from the beginning to the end, isn’t there?
Then end scene was actually the first I wrote out. Not coded though. And yeah it is amazing.
good to see more mediaval themed games 
any idea when will you add more chapters?
I’m currently working on a revision of the introduction posted above. Instead of following with that path I’m going to give a bare bones first chapter/ introduction and then flesh it, the stats screen, and the world out. And then move forward year by year. Spring break is next week so I’m taking advantage of my college library to flesh out the world of Henlan. Thanks for you interest.
Is everything alright I notice you haven’t been on for a while, have you stopped writing the story or is college slowing down the time you have to write.
I like it its great and has alot of potential
but are you purposely mixing Viking and European feudalism. Or do you lack a better word then Knight to indicate strong warrior and prestige?
you could use the Norse equivalent of a knight the skutilsveinr, literally (“table-men”).
a position that let them eat at the kings table even if they weren’t nobility, but they still had to bring/do something useful for the king.
Hey everyone yeah college has definitely slowed me down, finals week starts this week and I’ve down a lot of research and world building. I had an issue with my hard drive over Easter but luckily I recovered a lot of my work. Hopefully to have an update out in May.
Continuing the discussion from A Middling Life WIP-Demo:
I am mixing on purpose but I have done a lot of research and that is one of the changes, though the title of Syr will be staying. The stats are also changing to reflect idrottnir. Thanks for the interest and concern everyone!
Also I have four pretty important character partially designed if you’d like to hear about them before introduced.
I would absolutely like to hear about them. I’ll admit you have got me back into celtic/Germanic themes so I played Viking battle for asgard and re watched all the Viking episodes. If I can be of any help let me know this is my top looking forward to game on COG. 
Hello, so a quick review on the story. Well certainly a good story to begin with. My choices you asked for were ‘Elig Wake’ and ‘Jodi’. Father is fighting for prince Jon. So there you go. At fist sight very good written, it captured my attention, and kept it fairly well.
Although I found a mistake, since the father chose to fight for prince Jon, and was made a knight by him but nonetheless I found this in the dialogue.
“My daughter knighted him yesterday, Jodi, you’re a lady now. Someday your child might be a knight themselves. He’s at Wull alongside my daughter.” The Dowager Queen said as kindly as she could.
So do be carefull right there.
For the rest everything fine so far, I did bump into this though
It looks like king Arthur type story. Prologue was good. Only found one spelling mistake ie teh instead of ten. I guess story will be good if it keeps going in the direction it is going now.
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