So the biggest issue with my really large project Classical Age World (CAW) is the level of research required to actually make the game. So I have been debating things about it for some time, and after much discussion among myself and a few friends, I have decided to make a series to be released before the large project, which will help me in developing resources for the big game.

The first of the series I have decided on is an Aztec game. I know there are now resources for such a game, however I feel that ancient jungle dungeons tileset does nto fit the timeline for my game, as they are meant to be modern set of ancient things, meaning they have deprecated. So I have started on a simple concept tileset. I already have a sprite sheet started for the Aztec Royal family, and so I have what I believe, to be a good start on things.

The biggest issue I had with developing the concepts to this particular game, was what to name it, who the hero is, and what the plot is. I have decided on the name of the game to be Right Now or Oritah in the Aztec language (Nahuatl). This is based on my research so far. Sources indicated a great amount of celebration went into the present moment of things, out of fear of the future. It also coincides with the culture of the Hero. One cool thing to note from my research, is that Dark Souls is reminiscent to the spirit of Aztec religious dogma.

The actual premise and purpose of the game, is to immerse the player into Aztec culture and language learning. This idea I had for some time, but I watched a dev feed on twitch of a friend, and realized how it might be done.

The actual plot to which the player takes part in is still being developed. The core concepts are as follows:

• The player is a merchant of a northern tribe who came seeking trade with southern cultures based on a vision of a shaman.
  
• The player is captured by the Aztec army (likely a jaguar warrior) and is held in captivity within Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztecs that was a series of Islets.
  
• The player pays off the guards and they release him on good promises, however he still needs to speak with the King/Emporer for a release note, which means the player must learn the words to achieve this.
  
• Any attempt to flee the city without proper knowledge of the language results in failure, where they decide to sacrifice you to Huitzilopochtli, a God whom helps the sun defeat the darkness in an ongoing war between light and darkness.
  
• The player will have a companion, to be determined later, that will help in understanding and learning the language.
  
• There will be in game resources such as books and scrolls to teach words to the player.
  
• The player will have to complete tasks for npcs in order to learn more of the language, as well as culture as to what is safe and not safe, and will bring the player up to speed on life in the Aztec empire.
  

I am thinking that perhaps there is an npc of the same tribe as the player, to which is the companion to help learn the language.

Not everything will be counted for in the game in terms of Aztec culture, but I will do my best to hint at them. For instance, every 52 years Aztecs destroyed their belongings and mourned out of fear that darkness won the eternal battle, and only when the Pleiades returned to the sky would they buy new things and rejoice in Light's victory. This is something which may be difficult to create resources for with my limited capabilities, but I believe is important to knowing Aztec culture, and so it will be mentioned often in the game.

Celebrations and sacrifice will also be prominent in the game, but it's not going to be presented in a biased manner, so I hope. There will be priests in the game to help explain the origins of Aztec religion and creations. Such as the fact that all the gods had sacrificed themselves so that the sun would be victorious over darkness and the earth and humans could live on. The significance of the sacrifice being to embolden the armies of the Sun God. Also class and hierarchy's of society will be in the game, and will be hard to discover possibly, as Aztec upper class did not enjoy the company of strangers to the empire, until there was appropriate acculturation of the strangers.

I intend on spending absolutely 0$ on this project, and will not be buying resources or contracting for the project as a result. I am getting a new apartment soon and my ability to invest in projects will be sharply retarded by this fact.