Ok, Here We Go...

So I've decided to start this blog to track the development of a project I had started two months ago as a Halloween joke. The sweet tender loving combination of horror, and 90's 3D console graphics. Ritual Dementia is a game spawned from the twisted minds of innocent children playing underground games like IVAN, Yume Nikki, as well as a healthy serving King's Field and Tales of the Sun (20 cred points to whoever remembers that game).

Now the basic premise is that the game opens up with the player as slave trying to make their escape before being sacrificed to the Lord Behind the Door. Once the player is successful they are greeted by an open world hell on Earth with demons running rampant. You progress in the game by lineage as in your next of kin. Creating offspring allows you to evolve as a stronger species, but if you allow yourself to become corrupted you can eventually play as demons, however your humanity will be weakened and the gameplay experience will become a corrupted mess. Unlike most roguelikes (for the sake of associating this game with a genre) the player can create extra lives, which is represented by your bloodline. Once your bloodline has been wiped out it's game over and your family's lineage is destroyed! Whatever path you choose is up to you. Will you save the world by purging the demons from this world or is there another way?

Now any sane CEO from a multimillion dollar game company would think, "Who in their right mind would play a game that's not about shooting minorities and drinking Mountain Dew for extra XP available now at your local retailer!?"

We want the Angry Birds audience. - Some CEO

The truth is they're right, funding a game like this for them is financial suicide. The truth is big brother game game industry doesn't know how to make cheap games anymore. Now don't get me wrong the games can indeed look cheap, but what I'm saying is that the average project for a big publisher PC/Console game is in the millions. No longer do we live in the age of true startups anymore and the Silicon Valley is far from a valley and or full of the metalloid silicon (probably). The days that Richard "The Man" Stallman would reminisce about whilst sunbathing upon his galloping gnu of freedom. How could we possibly get the kinds of weird games that Commodore and DOS users had enjoyed for years? The kinds of games that make us stand up and go "what the hell was that crap!?" before clicking the uninstaller and reformatting their PC for fear of trojans? Actually, somebody already else figured out how so I didn't have to.

Yes that's right! The same crowd funding platform that allowed Cboyardee to create the sequel to his critically acclaimed, Barkley's Shut Up and Jam Gaiden! Now before I start and throw up a Kickstarter page with all the preparation and thought process of a squirrel, I thought it'd be better to plan out my devious plan on this blog over the course of the next few days/weeks/months/years/quintillion. I'll ask for feedback, people will insult my mother, the comments box will get spammed with timeshare ads, it'll be fun! Think of it as sort of a, Road to Kickstarter and Beyond, kind of like that one movie (except without the indigenous girl and Elton John ;_;).

So stay tuned for the next few days as I'll keep this place updated with the latest news and development updates.