What Path are you playing in One Day at a Time?
Added 2021-03-03 22:40:47 +0000 UTCIt's as I thought, the majority of you (and me) want to see the sober path, junkie points will still be relevant in the game, it just might be an (it makes it harder for you to get sober type of thing, or X happens that might not have). I can still show enough of the bad stuff with you getting sober to have impact. As I got to thinking, it would be ultra unrealistic to go down a full junkie path and still have the MC having sex with people or maintaining any relationships at all. It would only get worse from here. Not that we are even at where I thought of having it split yet and there will still be many things these characters have to overcome still, but I think this is the better way to go to convey the vision I have for this project. Because if I were to do a true junkie path MC would probably end up in prison, dead, or in a mental institution. None of these are really conducive to character interaction. Thanks for your input and confirming what I was already feeling.
I have altered the Overview to reflect what the game will ultimately turn out to be. None of this means the bad shit is over by any means, if I don't show how bad it is I would be doing a disservice to the game and to my experience. Thank you to all that voted, and confirmed what I had already felt in my heart!
As my game goes on I feel the spirit of it turning more towards the sober path and feel like that's what I want to write more. Plus, with feedback I've found most people are playing that path. What path are you playing?
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That's a cool reply and just the one I thought you would give, sorry for prying a little to see if this is coming from your imagination or the way you locked up the memories of how it was/wasn't. It makes the ride with you a lot more enjoyable and it explains, to me, why I get a Deja vu vibe off what you're putting out there. As I mentioned I have always been fortunate enough to not been dragged down into that road of addiction but have lost a couple of siblings (yes 2) related to it and walked away from some particularly good friends because of it. I am glad to hear someone give what is usually just a dark horse, a good path to walk down and even happier to hear you finding a tool to be able to reach out to many more than you ever could have imagined. Glad to join in supporting you on your roadway. Hawkeye
Junaluska Hall
2021-03-21 09:18:04 +0000 UTCThere we be plenty of bumps in the road once you get sober, it will be true to life. Like I said the junkie path will still be there. I just ultimately want MC to get sober. How you arrive there will be what junkie and sober path is about. I also want to show the sober side with helping others. The games title itself should be enough for you to know it's not going to be all sunshine and rainbows because it's One Day at a Time or a daily reprieve as we say in the rooms. However, as a sober junkie, I wouldn't have chose my life to go any different than it has, because if you do get sober and continue to work the program it is a very rewarding and life of service to others. I will always be one bad decision away from picking up a drink or a drug again, that will not be lost in the game. There hasn't been anything other than minor dialogues junkie and sober points have affected to this point anyway. Trust me, I'm still going to tell the story I want to tell, and it will not be linear. I just don't see a whole half of the game (we are not there yet) with MC just hanging out in drug houses. Not conducive to story telling. So, that's why I decided your path to sobriety and other events will be what those points affect. Who knows, maybe if you have enough junkie points you don't get sober til the very end of the game, and perhaps that's you ending up in rehab or something of the like. I have many ideas I've hammered out, but I'm not one of these devs who writes a hard outline and sticks to it. It doesn't facilitate my imagination the way I need to to write. I basically outline a day ahead in the game and I set up beats based on things that have been discussed or stuff I already had in my head I wanted to include. Sometimes it's just an impulse and an idea just apprears in my mind as I'm writing a scene and I run with it. Don't worry there a plenty of struggles left even once you do get sober. I lived/live this life. It will be accurate to what I've seen and experienced, but when people do get sober, their lives get better. And they get happy, and they're able to help others, and by doing that it's the only way they maintain sobriety. So, like I said it's a very rewarding life, but also, as I said as well, I'll incorporate junkie points into that. It not gonna be all sunshine and rainbows.
Zoey Raven
2021-03-21 08:54:33 +0000 UTCI just completed chapter 3 and am still on the junkie path. All the time I have been playing this role I have been telling myself," not how it is in that life", not from firsthand experiences but from family experience'S. All the glamour and good times always turns to a rotten M'fer that really burns the hell out of anyone that goes along with them for whatever the reasons may be. BUT, it is what we play games for, to have fun outside the box of all the real shit going on in life, at least I do. I can see why you are going to focus on the sober end and am just as happy as the next supporter / player, I'm only concerned that the sober way may end up being overboard on how great life is now that we're clean, tune, when in fact, once your junk your always junk, your just not a tool to whatever it is you became junked to but life will always be compared to the HIGH, HIGHs and seldom to the LOW, lows. Just human nature to retain the pain naturally, it is what keeps us from putting our hands back in the fire. Except in body controlling substance abuse. It is so strong that it makes you only remember the good times and laugh at the tough times, in afterthought. Rambled on enough here. Really a fantastic and enjoyable ride on your VN, glad to have stumbled across it and hope it fills all the dark spots you want it too. Good luck with your endeavors'.
Junaluska Hall
2021-03-21 07:46:53 +0000 UTC
