As a fan of martial arts stories myself, I’ve always dreamed of creating my own story as well. But this time I want to see Jianghu in its former glory, like in water margin. But with a mix of Murim spices layered on top. A story about rising up against greater powers, no matter how heavy the consequences.
This story is about your struggles. Your redemption. Your ambition.
Currently it’s only the beginning of Chapter 1. I’ll update it as soon as I finish writing the drafts.
Summary
This story is set in the martial world where strength, reputation, and cultivation determine your fate.
You’ll play as someone who is caught in the middle of betrayal, political power struggle, and ancient secrets tied to the Legendary Dragons of Murim.
To play the demo, go here: CoGDemos
My Patreon Account if you’d like to support this project. I’ll be posting the next update in here first after I’m done finalizing it.
Game cover courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago and Ahmed ABOUELLEIL SAYED (via Unsplash), and MeltingPenguins and cup_half_empty (from the CoG Forum). You guys are cool!
AI Disclosure:
No — This project does not contain the output of Generative AI
Yes — This project contains the output of Generative AI
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You didn’t set the game to public. Also if you need an actual artist for dragons (whether western or eastern) allow me to tag @PaperCrease . In the interim you could go through unsplash and find inspiration. Good luck with the game
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To be honest this is a good start
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Pretty interesting start,now i’m intrigued. Looking forward to it
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Oh right, guess I didn’t. I thought that as long as people accessed the link from this forum, they could open the game with no problem(?) But anyway, thank you. I’ll just set it to public. Hahahaha.
Yeah, I would actually love to commission a real artist for the job. But I can’t afford it now, maybe in the future. Hahaha.. I appreciate it tho.
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Aww… Thank you! I really appreciate the praise. Let’s all witness how this story unravels. Hahaha.
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Not to be a nuisance, but if you like to not use AI, here are some license free dragon images at Unsplash Just name and link the artist in the credits.
Personally I think this or this with the title on it might work great?
Edit: Again, I don’t want to come across as obnoxious, but I did go ahead and made these:
Feel free to use them if you like them
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Woahh.. Thank you for this! Truly appreciate the time and effort. I’ll definitely update the game cover!! :))
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You’re welcome 
edit: @Gorogoromaru I don’t know why the dimensions were off (i went off the minimum of 320x180 as per given on the page. So here’s a version that shouldn’t cut off the edges?
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Thank you @MeltingPenguins for tag!
As for the commissioning I can do it for free really I don’t mind. Or pay what you want and could afford later.
And the next thing I like after dragons are martial arts of the non MMO kind. Water Margin!! Someone actually read actual books!! So I would be glad to help if you want.
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Okay.. I guess we have some news. From now on, we will be having two game covers!! Hahaha. First is the image inside the game which @MeltingPenguins made. And the other one will be the game banner in CoGDemos website, made by @cup_half_empty.
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That cover is so cool good work @cup_half_empty
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Oooo, I really like that first one with what looks like Mount Fuji in the background.
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I was looking at the images that @MeltingPenguins linked in their post and got inspired and carried away a little bit. 
Here’s some info if anyone’s interested.
The image source is from Unsplash, and from this other image, it says it’s from a ceil painting from a temple in Kyoto. Credits:
Photo by Ahmed ABOUELLEIL SAYED on Unsplash
The font used is free and called Cinzel.
I used DeepL to translate “Murim Dragons” to Chinese and back again. It’s “武林龙” (Wǔlín Lóng). When translating back, it becomes “Martial Arts Dragon” (or something with “forests”, I don’t know).
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We probably have someone in the community who can double check the Chinese
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Quite interesting prologue, many choices in prologue making it feels more interactive, maybe it needs more time to marinated to enjoy it to the fullest
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He gently approached you
There’s some inconsistency with the time tenses. Over all, you’re using past tense, but for a moment you shifted to use the present tense. Also, some a typo in strip.
A power that even the Emperors of that time could not match. But then that clan was stripped of its title (…). There was nothing great about the clan.
He pumped his arms, his biceps tightening under the sleeves…
…and making sure it was secured. Your father tapped you in the shoulder…
There are many more like these, so I suggest you give it a once over the text.
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Here it comes the next big thing on choice of game very interesting I will be watching your work with great interest
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Actually in 2020, they found a dire wolf fossil in China. (I don’t really know if this is true, since some scientists aren’t completely sure either.) So dire wolves in the northern part of Asia aren’t really that far-fetched. Honestly I just added the dire wolf because it’s cool hahahaha. In this story, I really just want to make it exclusive to China, Korea, some Japanese foreigners, and also Mongolians. I want this world to contain those elements hahahaha. Kind of like how One Punch Man seems to exist in its own self-contained universe.
This story will eventually become a high fantasy one. Like the title suggests, it will mainly be based in Murim. There will be factions like the Empire, the Orthodox and Unorthodox sects, and the Heavenly Demon Cult. Murim itself is usually set in a completely fictional continent. Basically a fantasy version of China. Murim obviously takes inspiration from that as does Suikoden. What I mean is that this story will be something like Water Margin. Murim was born from the Jianghu idea in Water Margin. I want to bring the story back to its roots. The very reason Water Margin exists, the very reason Jianghu exists. To defy power, control, and injustice. What I want is a story that serves as a nod. A kind of tribute to that whole trope. Especially since XianXia stories nowadays are just full of overpowered MCs with no drive, no character development, and no aspirations.
About the time system, I was actually trying to use the shi chen method. Which was used in Ancient China and also appears in some XianXia and Wuxia stories. There are 12 shi chen in one day. Each shi chen equals 2 hours. Every shi chen also has what they called ke. There are 8 ke in 1 shi chen, which means 1 ke is roughly estimated to be 15 minutes. But I figured this time system might just confuse readers. Honestly I don’t fully understand it myself. That’s why I just went with 6:45 hahahahaha. And yes, it’s PM.
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