Anyone who follows this site will have known for quite a while now that we have been working on a video game, Foul Fantasy. We've spent a fair bit of time on it, as much as we possibly can with our various full time jobs and criminal careers. Foul Fantasy is in my opinion the best piece of work associated with our site. It's funny, well crafted and tells an interesting story. Here is part one of two Foul Fantasy articles that will be hitting you during 30 Days of Stuff.
Beginnings
Foul Fantasy started as a joke. Playing Game Dev Tycoon and coming up with game titles, Fantasy Bummers was thrown out there. For a long time Foul Fantasy was called this, in fact colloquially between the three mainstays here at Foul ENT we refer to it as Bummers. It wasn't until we started Foul ENT and put our website out there that we thought about actually developing it into an actual game. It was at this point we reconsidered the title, we can't put a game out there called Fantasy Bummers, it's just too far - even for us!
Thus Foul Fantasy was born. It took us a while to decide how we were going to do things. I was the only one with any coding experience, and it had been a long time since I had done any to a decent level. RPG maker it was then.
Thus Foul Fantasy was born. It took us a while to decide how we were going to do things. I was the only one with any coding experience, and it had been a long time since I had done any to a decent level. RPG maker it was then.
RPG maker was a pretty powerful tool with a simple learning curve. It wasn't long before we had a working demo and some pretty solid ideas. Foul Fantasy moved forward quickly. It became a behemoth. Unfortunately RPG maker had certain limitations that we found annoying. We moved over to Unity, but without any credible artists in our ranks it looked amateurish.
We had to move back to RPG maker, by now it had a new version which had many of the limitations wiped out from the previous version. We just had to convert it over, a process which took longer than making the original. It was at this point we realised we needed an artist. We tried and failed many times to get one on board. So currently, unfortunately, Foul Fantasy is in limbo.
Or is it? Interest in Foul Fantasy is ridiculously high. We have numerous people inquiring on a weekly basis. That has lead to us reviving work on Foul Fantasy, just in a different format. Interest from publishers has lead us to begin work on Foul Fantasy: Choose Your Own Adventure. Not that the game is dead, far from it. At this moment in time though, the book will be how you can follow the adventures of Nimbus, Jary and Uncle Tone!
We had to move back to RPG maker, by now it had a new version which had many of the limitations wiped out from the previous version. We just had to convert it over, a process which took longer than making the original. It was at this point we realised we needed an artist. We tried and failed many times to get one on board. So currently, unfortunately, Foul Fantasy is in limbo.
Or is it? Interest in Foul Fantasy is ridiculously high. We have numerous people inquiring on a weekly basis. That has lead to us reviving work on Foul Fantasy, just in a different format. Interest from publishers has lead us to begin work on Foul Fantasy: Choose Your Own Adventure. Not that the game is dead, far from it. At this moment in time though, the book will be how you can follow the adventures of Nimbus, Jary and Uncle Tone!
By Frank King
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Frank is known for his outspoken opinions on everything and anything, as well as his next-level social network trolling. He is also the main coder for Foul ENT games and documents the progress of Foul Fantasy in his dev blogs.
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Frank is known for his outspoken opinions on everything and anything, as well as his next-level social network trolling. He is also the main coder for Foul ENT games and documents the progress of Foul Fantasy in his dev blogs.