{"id":100,"date":"2016-08-20T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythicbattles-scenarios.com\/wormwood\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/20\/divide-by-zero\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:17:00","slug":"divide-by-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/20\/divide-by-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Divide By Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I was 19, I was unexpectedly hired to write the story to a GameBoy Color RPG, entitled Infinity<\/i>.  This was my first paid work as a writer, and actually my biggest paycheck for many years.  More importantly than that, though, writing a jRPG story was something I had dreamed of — and attempted — for many years.  As a little kid, I’d played Dragon Warrior<\/i> with my older brother (the last RPG he ever played, the first of many for me), and after playing Shining in the Darkness<\/i>, I became committed to the idea of making one myself. <\/p>\n

I attempted to make an RPG in many different programming languages (BASIC on an Apple II\/c, BASIC on a Macintosh IIsi, LogoWriter on that same Macintosh, QuickBASIC on a PC, and TurboPascal on a PC) and then a series of kinds of game-making software (ZZT, MegaZeux, Unlimited Adventures, Verge, and RPG Maker 95).  This doomed endeavor — and in a sense, it really was a single<\/i> endeavor — was probably most fueled by Final Fantasy II<\/i>, a game I played at a friend’s house and dreamed of mimicking.  It consumed most of my creative energy and much of my free time from about 1992 until 1999.  Over the years, I collaborated with many people on the Internet, and dragged them into the black hole of wasted time. <\/p>\n

One of those collaborators was Eric Hach\u00e9<\/a>, the indisputable king of jRPG-style music in that era.  I solemnly believed that if I could get Eric on the project — a game called Shadow Incarnate<\/i> — we couldn’t fail. <\/p>\n

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