While stuck at home, I begin to get ideas for games. I don't know how to code in things like Unity or ClickTeam, so I am stuck using old faithful, Scratch. The little MIT project that's kept me making games since I was five years old. Since then, I have been 'coding' many games into existence. My tools are limited, so I have to make do with as much as possible, but it hasn't stopped me from coming up with ideas. I have many ideas, sometimes I curse myself for not knowing Unity or ClickTeam, and blocking myself from being the next Indie millionaire like Toby Fox or Scott Cawthon, both being examples of people who were average and made a hit indie game and are now millionaires. It's these success stories that keep me thinking up ideas. My process is to think of a setting and a theme. My most recent idea was a top down shooter in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It's always something random and specific like that which gives me the motivation to keep going. However, determination can only carry me so far. The mid-development hell is the worst for anybody. You see what your game will become but the effort to do it isn't quite in you yet. I feel it to, so for now, I just have a lot of ideas and time to make them. But the mental block of game development is strong, and I think it's what holds most developers back from greatness.
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The game I selected is certainly a weird one, it's also Russian. 'Pathologic' is a Russian survival horror game where you play as one of three doctors trying to cure a small town in the Russian steppe in the early 1900s for your own personal reasons. The game is very clever and not fun. Not fun? Pathologic is NOT a fun game; but it is a great one. The game is not meant to be fun, it's meant to be tedious and requires your patience, in fact, there is a Steam achievement you earn when you finish the first day in the game. Only 11% of players did it. The game is spread across 12 days, with the plague getting worse earch day and more dangerous. The three characters are called the Bachelor, the Horuspex, and the Changeling. The Bachelor is a bachelor of medicine and came to the town because the Russian government is close to shutting down your lab, focused on researching immortality. A man named Isidor Burakh, the town surgeon, invites you to the town. The first day, you try to go meet one ot the town elite, he is over 150 years old, but he was murdered the night before. You go see the surgeon who invited you, who was also murdered. The game plays as you trying to survive the plague and the town as you solve the murders and find a vaccine. Oh also food prices multiply TEN FOLD on day 2 because of stockpiling since you alerted the town of the incoming plague. This is the easiest playthrough and the one I reccomend a lot. Oh, also there are muggers who throw knifes that deal 90% of your health. I would like to explain the other two characters but this is getting long, honestly, play Pathologic, but don't enjoy it. Yes! This is what the game actually looks like!
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