Last update - 2012-08-13
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What would you do if you had the power to create video game of your dreams?
The late 90s.
A special version of the original PSX dubbed "Net Yaroze" blew our minds with the prospect of being able to create your very own video game. Not long afterwards, Clickteam's renowned PC game creation tool, "The Games Factory" became available on CDs attached to computer magazines.
We knew full well what it meant,
having seen what the humble NES was capable of. With our imagination fueled by (among others) various RPG rulebooks, toys (especially Lego), cartoons and trading cards, the sheer amount of options was simply staggering...
...and yet what is a man to create when he has the opportunity to create anything?
What is a perfect game anyway?
For some it might be a Harry Potter sequel, others would fancy a Quake game with candy instead of weapons, while another would love to play a mix of his favorite strategy games, no matter how different they were from each other. Would it be a re-imagining of the Oddworld universe? How about a Legacy of Kain with dragons or something that would play like the original Crash Bandicoot trilogy? One could also think about a survival horror taking place at one's own school, while others would like nothing more than a classic Baldur's Gate-styled RPG about a hero raised by dragons.
After all, a man writes about what he knows.
Be it action, puzzle or strategy games - we've knew them all and they will always remember them with cheerful fondness.
The idea of the perfect game changed over the years and so the unfinished projects and abandoned ideas followed. Nevertheless, what remained, the shards of a distant past, were re-forged into world known as the Land of Zeranoth, where fantasy lives on.
You might be all that stands between creativity and the oblivion of dreams.
Will you stand against the grim reality and become one of the Legends of Zeranoth?
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