The gods are dead. Those that survived the world have fled, leaving humans to fend for themselves without protection. In their absence a great evil is rising, one that threatens to be worse than any trick Loki could have devised.
I’ve started an outline for a fantasy/adventure game based around Norse mythology and the aftermath of ragnarok. Ragnarok or “the twilight of the gods” is basically the Norse version of the apocalypse. Many of the gods die, the world is struck by natural disasters and flooded, and then is born anew with two human survivors left to populate the earth (Lif and Lithrasir).
In “Ragnarok” you play as a direct decendent of Lif and Lifrasir who is chosen by the surviving gods to combat a new, great evil that is rising. Right now there are two main endings but I plan to add at least two more. There will be romance options and character customization.
I’m a large fan of vikings and plan on studying them in further detail when I start my masters degree (hopefully in a couple of years) and I’ll be drawing on their culture, history and mythology heavily for this story.
I’m still learning the ins and outs of Choicescript but I hope to be able to start working on an introduction and first chapter soon (as soon as I’ve finished the outline, of course).
Please let me know what you think or if you have any ideas or things you would like to see!
Cheers,
Kat
EDIT (8/10/2017): For those who are interested in storyboarding!
Update 8/14/2017: Demo of intro and first chapter available on Dashingdon and will provide a link once I open a new thread exclusively for updates/feedback/testing/etc.
I know that they’ll be people you pick up on your journey to help you and that there will be both male and female but besides that I’m still working on story a general story more than characters.
Yes, especially because Baldr will be the god who first contacts you, as he has the most love for humans and is one of the few gods that survives ragnarok (even though him dying is the first sign of it’s coming, and then he comes back to life norse mythology can get complicated, let’s be honest.)
Is Thor, Odin, Sif, Loki, Tyr, Fenrir, and other deities in this as well? Can we wield Thor’s hammer or Odin’s spear? Will there be Valkyries? Does the Midgard serpent play into this? Will there be jotuuns and surtur? And what about Hel?
Hmm true but this is fiction and we can mess with fiction however we want. So they might or might not be alive. We know baldr is alive but not much else.
