I usually take part in NaNoWriMo in November. However, this year I decided I should do something a little different: Naga Demon.
Naga Demon is the “National Game Design Month”. The goal is to create a game, and play it – even if you do it by yourself.
That’s much more reasonable than trying to write 1667 words – on average – every day after work.
My Goals are, specifically:
- Write star ship construction rules
- Write star system generation rules
- Write trade system rules
- Run a small tramp freighter through a small star cluster until she made a fortune or runs out of money…
And yes, those are all things I can use for the development of my science fiction setting. As a big bonus… I will try to finally decide on a name for the setting.
We’ve already established that I will do any game testing you need. I’m asking friends at work if they’d be interested at well. Best of luck, bud.
I never thought names would be that much of a problem. But I’ve had the same working title for my game for weeks now, and I just can’t think of anything better…
Thanks, realmwright!
Shorty, I have always had problems finding good names but naming a science fiction setting is turning out to be the hardest thing ever. A fantasy world can always be named using some made-up word (“Enderra” – I did not realize it was actually a rare female name).
For a science fiction setting, however… it seems that everything that’s fairly generic and even remotely well-sounding has been used 30 years ago.
And if you include finding a matching .com domain in the process, it’s not getting any easier.
I can now understand why branding is done by highly-paid professionals; it’s hard.