I’m preparing for your entertainment, amusement and edification a bunch of AD 2022 video game (VG) releases — some 30-odd new games — along with which I’ll revive and restore a resurrected group of “goddgame” classics, updated with the latest game technology and fun resources.
I thought they would go well on goddgames.com, and that’s where you should be able, very soon now, to find them for download, at a lousy $3.99 per game, which is the low end of indie game pricing, except for the cookie-cutter games, which are merely mods of existing games.
My games are ALL mods, in the sense that they all use the same “starter” orb, with all the stuff already built-in, like weapons, scrolls, magic and such.
Then I plunk in some things to make that magic work. Nothing happens in there by accident. Everything is programmed.
If you’re a Game Designer, you can screw up the EFFECT, but you can’t make the program do things that it isn’t programmed to do.
Cause and Effect are written as: “IF-THEN”, and saying “yes” means TRUE or FALSE. It’s all very simple, repetitive processing, but it has to come out right, and that’s the job of the game designer.
Dick is our game engine designer. He writes in code, speaks in code and thinks in code, then he goes gardening or works on a water issue on his farm, and has time to meditate in his home-built yurt.
Now, that’s the kind of game developer you want to be!
Unfortunately, most game devs end up on a production line — “Here, make this weapon,” after which you inevitably get fired, and everybody tells you, “Well, that’s the industry,” but it isn’t so.
You can make a hefty living as an indie game developer, regardless of the type of output. You never know in advance what’s going to take off, bust out and go viral.
So why do all my goddgames seem so retro, so old-fashioned, so twentieth-century?
Because I want them to. We designed everything in there. Claude is responsible for the models, the textures, the sounds and a lot of the math.
Most of the wilder gimmicks are his invention.
Years ago, I asked Dick for a river raft upon which you could walk, while the raft took you on your river path.
Well, this year, I’ve finally got what I asked for, and I’m taking extreme advantage of it, including a helicopter flight over Downtown BardoTown, a boatride down the Nile and another ride up the Rubicon to see Rome.
You’ll find yourself immersed in Zombie Wars and riding through the Afterlife on the Styx Canal, and wandering in a DreamWalk Society.
There are a total of 32 “ready-for-primetime” Orbs, just waiting for our Official Tester — that’s Barbara, who also repairs what’s broken in my latest efforts — to give her final approval to each and every one of the new goddgames.
That probably means we’ll get up one or more per day, so be patient — however, you will see such a variety of possible worlds, you won’t believe it’s all on the same engine, but they are, and what’s more, YOU CAN DO IT TOO!!!
I don’t use anything more or less than what you have available. It’s just how I use the things, that’s all, and I have over 35 years of experience with this engine and editor, and know its ins and outs quite well.
The fact is, there’s nothing I can’t build.
There is no world you can imagine that can’t be produced in virtual inside the Godd™ Engine and Editor, and that’s a fact.
Gimme a minnit, and I’ll prove it:
OOKARMA.ORB is a 60-second rinse-off in continual, intense cleansing waves of Dissolving Radiations, driven by the haunting chanting sounds of the Bardo Guides along the River. You will feel utterly refreshed and restored, guaranteed, and regenerative energy will manifest within your radiance, which is commonly but incorrectly called “the aura”.
There’s not a thing in that orb that you couldn’t REproduce, but as the writer said, “Where were you when the paper was blank?”. The trick is MAKING SOMETHING FROM NOTHING.
It’s what I do best.
It’s what I do best, and what’s more, from this I can and do make a living for myself and for an entire work community, and you could help in this endeavor by making popular games that we can offer through goddgames.com!
AABASIC.ORB is the unique builder’s world that contains an already-existing canal and boatride, so all you have to add are the buildings and details, manniquins and NPCs and such that you want in your boatride. The hardest part, the mechanics of the voyage, is done for you, all the math is in, the boatride is guaranteed to work, unless you meddle with it, of course, without saving the previous version on another drive, but all that’s for later, when you seek help from a builder’s class, which we have almost every day, so there’s no excuse.
AAZONE.ORB is the absolute best canalboat ride you’ll ever have taken! I have rides planned to go through other worlds, but this goes several ways across BardoTown, and it’s really something amazing. It makes a powerful and energizing meditation, just to sit and watch it. You don’t need to do anything, although you are always able to get off and back on the boat anytime you want to explore something close up or from a different perspective.
ASKEJ.COM is a radically different interactive spiritual tool, which causes an interactive state between us. You will be prompted and asked questions. When you’ve typed in your response, the CHAT BOT listens to your text being translated into SPOKEN WORD, although the voice will not be one you recognize as your own. This helps you figure out your path, plan your day, organize your thoughts on any subject, train your brain and test your personal insights.
DRAGON3D.ORB is the best it’s ever been — completely overhauled and refurbished, the action is incredible and responsive to your actual keyboard and mouse moves, so your touch will be reflected in the action. The dragons can be overwhelming, and you’ll need some strategy to get through the massive resistance to your passage. NO BLOOD, no GUTS, nothing to get hung about — just some good, clean dragon-killing fun, certainly the best gaming bargain you’ll find this holiday season!
HEALPET.ORB is what you want if your dog, cat, horse, goldfish or teddy bear is feeling poorly. You can run the orb on behalf of your pet, as any animal you can name, as long as you can see it in front of you in the orb. In other words, if you don’t happen to have a sick unicorn, you’ll have to improvise, because that’s what I had to offer, and that’s what’s there. You will find this to be a very useful spiritual inner healing tool for both yourself and your animal kingdom friends.
GETRICH3.ORB is one of those inspirational things — you get rich in virtual world, corresponding will happen in real world. That’s the idea, and it’s worked for thousands of generations, so there’s no reason to suppose it won’t work now. All you do is go through the orb, and accept the riches that shower upon you, and be open to this happening in the “real” world as well, because it will, if you hold firmly to the thought. Once a day is enough, don’t obsess.
KISSLIPS.ORB gives you EXPLODING LIPS, which got millions of downloads back in the early days, the pioneering days of video gaming. We were among the very first, and this game was a HIT, and people still ask for it, so I updated it with the new graphics, sounds and engine, and WOW, does it pop. You will love it or your money back, guaranteed to bring at least one good laugh per game. Just the sight of those lips blowing up into a zillion tiny lips is enough to bring at least a smile. NO BLOOD, just exploding lips, a GREAT holiday gift, and SO easy to download, no shipping!
MARSWARS.ORB is the grippingest, fastest and most immersive game you ever played, period, or your money back, guaranteed. You will love and respect this game. It is almost unbeatable, unless you TAKE YOUR TIME, but there’s no time for that, everything’s busting out all over all the time everywhere! When you play this for TIME, you can use it as a competition game. Again, a GREAT XMAS GIFT, although I’m not supposed to use the word “xmas” anymore — it’s “Holidays” now, and I am almost 80 years young, and am therefore entitled to use ALL CAPS if I so desire, and I do. Got a problem with that? Tell it to the Martians!
What chance do you have to break away for the weekend for a retreat at the remote mountaintop meditation chapel, called “Red House”? Here it is for you in virtual form, which you can stuff into a pocket and take to town. You get a CLASSIC meditation in my voice, about ten minutes’ worth of deep meditation and new spiritual skills.
SLIMWAR2.ORB is the name of this little gem. It’s pretty much the same as MarsWars except it’s different — this is to give you two slightly different approaches to the same gaming problem, a straightforward 3D SHOOTER that you need to approach with some strategy, or die trying.
TIMETRAK.ORB is the home of the Time Machine that Really Works. Hey, listen, it really does. You will appreciate the empowerment of rolling out your own time track, and this highly charged spiritual device actually helps you enable yourself to control your own TIMEFLOW, and under some circumstances, that’s truly a soul-saver.
00RIVER.COM is the result of over ten years of work — I asked Dick for transparent water, and he gave me transparent water. Then I asked for water you could swim in and under, and he gave me that. Then I asked for a boat that could travel over water and follow a path and make some noise as it went along, and he gave me that. It took a total of ten years for all this to actually work, and now it does, and I’m bringing it to you. This is one of my very favorite orbs, and one which I believe you will really find useful as a meditation and study.
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That’s what I have ready to ship out for posting on the website and downloading off payloads through our website, if you follow.
There are 20 more almost-finished orbs that I’ll be posting info about as soon as I’ve completed them and they’re ready for prime-time.
Meanwhile, this first wave of orbs will keep you plenty busy. Don’t forget that these are not just toys — they are learning devices.
It’s not just about the architecture or the gaming skills or the weapons or the NPC speech. You need to put in some learning time and energy to find out what constitutes “good gaming”, and build that into your games.
Whether you’re producing a shooter or a walker, the same rule applies:
“Nothing happens in here that isn’t programmed to happen.”
That goes along with the inflexible rule of life, spoken in 1967 by my friend and neighbor Jim Morrison while standing at the bookcase of my little Hollywood Boulevard bookshop: “You’ll never get out of here alive.”
He was leaning against a giant leather-bound copy of “Secret Teachings of All Ages”, which bore the brunt of most of his leaning ambitions. He was a leaner, and so was Herb Khaury, who was known as “Tiny Tim”.
Another frequent flyer at my bookstore was Wildman Larry Fisher, and another daily visitor was Gypsy Boots.
Once in a while, Alice Cooper wandered through my shop, but we didn’t talk much. Around the corner was my friend Johnny Weismuller, who had once, many years back, played Tarzan.
Some say he was the best Tarzan, some say other actors were, but he was the only Tarzan that opened a health food store with a juice bar, no more than 100 feet from the entrance to my tiny little 10 by 10 foot bookstore, which could net as much as a thousand dollars a day, when Jimmy sold my home-made essential oils to young ladies at our booth. I still have some of those oils, and they’re for sale, as an entire business, for $5,000.00 — a fraction of what the enormous supply of essential oils originally cost, and an even smaller fraction of what they would cost today, if you could even get the sandalwood and other rare scents, any time in the present.
Gosh, I’ve just rambled on, haven’t I?
Well, that’s enough for now — more updates as I finish the orbs, probably one per night if I get lucky, and that’s just the finish work, preparing the orb for packaging and shipping, meaning downloading.
There’s a lot of admin to releasing a game, not the least of which is SUPPORT. I will offer energetic support to anyone who wants to learn the skills of a game dev with the godd engine, so don’t be an ass, come to class!
That didn’t sound as classy as I’d hoped.
See You At The Top!!!
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