12. Making a Role-Playing Game
In Choice of Games’s Choice of the Dragon, you begin the game with a list of stats on the left side of the screen. Your brutality or finesse, cunning or honor, disdain or vigilance, and infamy are all set squarely in the middle at 50%. You have 5,000 gold coins, no injuries, and a lot of choices to make.
Welcome to the world of CRPGs—computer role-playing games—which are meant to bring the tabletop game experience to the screen.
In Choice of the Dragon, you’re playing as the dragon, and the stats refer to your abilities as a princess-kidnapping beast. Choose not to harm the knight that charges at you at the opening of the game and watch your brutality score lower and your finesse score rise. The bar marking the ...
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