I've spent the last significant portion of my life in the film and entertainment industry. Having helped spark two television series (Flip Men, and Sister Wives both of which I developed the promo footage for and got no credit!), and currently working on two other reality series and a documentary, I've learned a lot about myself and what I'd like to do with my life. I've met some extremely interesting people and continue to do lots of fun work. But there's at least one thing I gotta do, and I have about a month to do it.

(Meeting some of the most creative people in the world)

(Directing a zombie short film)

Growing up, I only knew of the Nintendo games, and due to the sporty nature of my older brothers, I never got to play any RPG games. We played NBA Jam, Madden, and the most extreme RPG I played growing up was Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Then I moved to California. It was here that I discovered two things.

First and foremost, my love for film. My friends and I would make ridiculous movies in our backyards. Knife throwing competitions, sports from the future (including one about trying to convince your friend to seppuku). Ah, the gold old days. Secondly, one of my friends saw me playing Diddy Kong Racing and I'm sure his brain was exploding. He brought over his Playstation, and I said that it was lame, Nintendo is the best (which was accurate sales wise at the time). I played Metal Gear Solid for the first time. I was completely and utterly blown away. This game had a plot 50x more in depth and complicated than all over the Nintendo games I had played put together, minus Zelda. But it far surpassed Zelda. I wasn't some cartoon, "fake killing" cartoon people. I was a super spy, sneaking around, breaking necks, sniping, and blowing the hell out of stuff. I didn't know games like this existed!! And while I did love Goldeneye 007 for the N64, it doesn't hold a candle to MGS in terms of story.

Then he showed me another game. Final Fantasy 7. I had never seen anything like it. A steampunk type of scifi mixed with fantasy. I went to the story the next day and bought a Playstation, FF7, and a memory card. I was glued to the screen for the next couple days. Not knowing all the intricacies of these types of games (I had no idea there were complicated side quests that unleashed Knights of the Round Table...Diddy Kong Racing didn't have anything like that!), after several tries I managed to down Sephiroth. The world opened up to me, and I have been trying to make up for all the RPG's I have missed since.

I have never had a knack for programming, but I come up with good story lines and have been able to use that ability to help my film career. I've wanted to make an RPG, but haven't had the tools that I've wanted. I discovered RPG Maker and while I have helped people on forums with their issues and consulted on games as a hobby, I haven't been able to make my own game. Well, by some form of luck, I'll only be working a little in April (trust me, it is luck! I pulled more than one 90 hour work week this last year), and all the knowledge of storytelling and experience in RPG's I've made will go into the creation of a little RPG Maker game. Hopefully, if it goes well and there's enough interest, we'll use kickstarter to make a much grander scale game.

So what's the point of this blog? To vent as I make the game, to show my process that I'm going through to accomplish it, and what pitfalls I can avoid in the future. It will be an RTP game for the first one. Possibly with custom scripts (depends how long someone takes to get an SBS script out, although I'm talking to a programmer buddy who may be interested in doing one for me).

Hope someone reads this and you can share in the fun with me. Take care!