A Superhero RPG for PC

Apologies for the lack of updates for the last couple of weeks, but I've been pretty busy for the last while and here's why:

I'm making a game! Yep, a bona fide computer game. It's an old-school style rpg game but unlike all those old-school rpg games this isn't about fighting trolls and dragons, no this is all about superheroes!

Now of course, making a game isn't easy, which is why I want to be able to dedicate time to it and to make it as good as I possibly can. To aid me with this I have started a fundraiser on indiegogo.com/knightsRPG. Please, check it out if you have a minute to spare. The aim of this is really to provide me with the means to be able to concentrate on making the game to the best of my ability.

For those who have used crowdfunding sites in the past, you may be thinking "Indiegogo? Why doesn't he just use Kickstarter? Everyone and their cat seems to have heard of that place!"

Well to be honest, I would have liked to have used Kickstarter too. It's a well-known thing at the moment, and videogame funding seems to do well over there. The only problem is, you have to have a bank account in the USA to be able to use it, and as I'm from Ireland and currently living in Australia, that didn't seem like it was going to happen. And so I went for the second largest site out there, indiegogo!

I'm very excited about all this and I have the game all mapped out, along with some fun things I'd like to implement based on what funding I get for the game. So do me a favour if you can and head over to indiegogo.com/knightsRPG and check out the game, and if you really want, drop me a couple of pennies, and I'd be very grateful.

Thanks and see ya soon,

James

Why is naming characters so hard?

It seems like a such a simple thing to do, and yet, whenever I start writing something new one of the stumbling blocks I invariably have is deciding the names of characters, from the major ones to the minors. In many of my stories the character names have changed multiple times, just because I felt a certain name didn’t suit well enough.

But why is this? What makes a name a “good” name? And does it really matter? I know that when I read books I don’t really place much importance in a character’s name, it’s just what they are called. And yet when I write myself, I find something pushing me to find just the right name for a character. I can’t think of many examples of ‘good’ names of characters, only bad ones (for example, calling a character Hope, whether that character saves the day, or is symbolically killed at some point, it feels a bit obvious doesn’t it?).

New Dark Knight Rises Trailer

The newest trailer for The Dark Knight Rises is out now, and all it's doing is make me want to watch this film more and more. I'm double happy because the film is out here in Australia a day before it is back home in Ireland. (I think that's the real reason I came over here :D ) If you haven't clicked on the video above to watch yet, then why the hell not?