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Wow... holy cow, I go to dinner and spend some time watching me some Star Trek:ToS and come back to find a ton of posts about me and my book!! :eek:

@DA22, as @Palanto Games stated, I wrote and printed the book through a publisher myself to retain all rights to the story... I figured the "Knight Universe" (as @Wyrme has so cleverly coined) was good enough that if I could get enough interest in it, or attention, that it could get optioned as a movie and didn't have a Publisher snatching 90% of the profits of it... additionally, since I own the full rights to it, I could maybe do it as a mature/adult game or comic book series (which it was originally intended to be) without having to beg to use my own characters and story from the publisher...

...sadly, since I paid for everything myself, I could only afford to do a soft cover of it... which, actually, is over 400 pages and cost me nearly $5,000 USD to publish as a softcover... hardcover would've been nearly triple that price and being that only those in the comic book or 3D industry has heard of me, didn't think the risk was logical... considering I still haven't made back my original investment on the cost of it and it's been out two years with no real marketing behind it.

For those that are interested, here is the cover and places it is available... and it can also be found on iTunes.

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My thanks to everyone who has purchased it or is planning on purchasing it, I truly hope that you enjoyed or will enjoy it and please, feel free to let me know what you think of it and if you'd like to see that Universe become a game in the future. :)

Thank you, sincerely, thank you!

P.S.: If you also leave a review for it on Amazon, it would be appreciated! :D
 

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Wow... holy cow, I go to dinner and spend some time watching me some Star Trek:ToS and come back to find a ton of posts about me and my book!! :eek:

@DA22, as @Palanto Games stated, I wrote and printed the book through a publisher myself to retain all rights to the story... I figured the "Knight Universe" (as @Wyrme has so cleverly coined) was good enough that if I could get enough interest in it, or attention, that it could get optioned as a movie and didn't have a Publisher snatching 90% of the profits of it... additionally, since I own the full rights to it, I could maybe do it as a mature/adult game or comic book series (which it was originally intended to be) without having to beg to use my own characters and story from the publisher...

...sadly, since I paid for everything myself, I could only afford to do a soft cover of it... which, actually, is over 400 pages and cost me nearly $5,000 USD to publish as a softcover... hardcover would've been nearly triple that price and being that only those in the comic book or 3D industry has heard of me, didn't think the risk was logical... considering I still haven't made back my original investment on the cost of it and it's been out two years with no real marketing behind it.

For those that are interested, here is the cover and places it is available... and it can also be found on iTunes.

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My thanks to everyone who has purchased it or is planning on purchasing it, I truly hope that you enjoyed or will enjoy it and please, feel free to let me know what you think of it and if you'd like to see that Universe become a game in the future. :)

Thank you, sincerely, thank you!

P.S.: If you also leave a review for it on Amazon, it would be appreciated! :D
I will continue to spread the word around the low brow miscreants I work with for there are actually at least three that know the alphabet(and 2 that READ!). It appears that amazon and kindle have separate review boards for mine was not up there on amazon when we were trying share the info earlier. Mine would stand out for the prattling on quality, that I am best known. I will (as stated before) wait for knight's hunt or the game with baited breathe!

@ASLPro3D OK, didn't wanna double post, so I waited for SOMEONE to intervene. Yes, as a matter of fact, i had noticed the moth. Though, I have to say that I did not make the connection until you brought it up. It had been little more than a neat 'detail' when I first received the book. You are really egging me on to pester you about getting more irons in the fire, my friend. It is those attention to detail kinds of things that separate the stories I like from those I love.
But, as greedy as I am, I will again say take care of yourself first.
P.S. was it the missus that took the photo for your bio?
 

ASLPro3D

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I will continue to spread the word around the low brow miscreants I work with for there are actually at least three that know the alphabet(and 2 that READ!). It appears that amazon and kindle have separate review boards for mine was not up there on amazon when we were trying share the info earlier. Mine would stand out for the prattling on quality, that I am best known. I will (as stated before) wait for knight's hunt or the game with baited breathe!
LOL... sounds like a great workplace environment there, @Wyrme ;)
Yeah, Amazon is a bit of a pain-in-the-ass when it comes to their review board... Personally, I don't understand it, as I've had others who've read the book and did the review, but their review never showed up. I hope that won't be the case with yours.

@ASLPro3D OK, didn't wanna double post, so I waited for SOMEONE to intervene. Yes, as a matter of fact, i had noticed the moth. Though, I have to say that I did not make the connection until you brought it up. It had been little more than a neat 'detail' when I first received the book. You are really egging me on to pester you about getting more irons in the fire, my friend. It is those attention to detail kinds of things that separate the stories I like from those I love.
But, as greedy as I am, I will again say take care of yourself first.
P.S. was it the missus that took the photo for your bio?
Honestly, the story was pretty grueling to write as it came with a variety of challenges for example, it was originally supposed to be a combined "Crow" Graphic Novel done by James O'Barr and myself for Gary Reed's "Caliber Comics" in the early '90's, but James was going through some very difficult times with his divorce and personal situations that I won't talk about... so, I had to go through and heavily alter it to make it different and unique, so, using my experience that I gained while working with White Wolf, I altered it into a supernatural story...

Gary Reed (who is no longer with us now), liked it and was willing to take a chance on it from an unknown comic book writer, because it was based on my thoughts, feelings and experiences after a very bitter divorce and watching my daughter taken from me and moved clear across the country.

The fears of a parent, stressing and worrying about the safety of his daughter... and the fears of what she would think of me failing as a father.

Over the years, the story slowly changed to be something much more different, with not as much anger and feelings of betrayal from her mother and became a much better story not heavily skewed by personal emotion, but one focused on characters, interaction, hope and friendship... a much, much different story than that of a "Crow" novel as it was originally intended... took 26 years, but much better story, I think. LOL

Still, writing it took a bit out of me and caused some old feelings to start swirling around inside that had long been locked away and needed to get back into control before I felt I'd be ready to continue the story... which brings me to now.

I am thinking that once @Palanto Games and I are able to afford, find and acquire a reliable and dependable artist to help with the rendering of Wicked Choices, that I will focus solely on story writing, not just for the game(s) but also on associated novels that can also enhance the games we design and build in the future...

For example, maybe, use "Ebon Knights: Knight's Fall" as a prequel (or background story) to a future game, where the player's MC is a male and/or female character that was saved by Brandon Knight in Hell's Kitchen, or by DeSole in a rest area on the outskirts of New York... *shrugs* ...or by Brandon, Ebon, Alexander and Johara from Jadda's club...

So many possibilities, but each other tied with the novels for those who want "more" than just the game, as well as, background information, hints, tips and tricks, etc...

Wow, got on a tangent there, sorry... as for the question about my photo... yes, it was taken by the wife (my second wife and love of my life), while we were in Detroit doing a photoshoot with some models, she took my camera to do some photos of her own, while I was taking a break and resting in an abandoned alcove while waiting on the models to get changed and she snapped that photo of me (I hate having my photo taken)... and used that one for the book's jacket, because I don't have many photos of myself. LOL
 

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I am thinking that once @Palanto Games and I are able to afford, find and acquire a reliable and dependable artist to help with the rendering of Wicked Choices, that I will focus solely on story writing, not just for the game(s) but also on associated novels that can also enhance the games we design and build in the future...
Well Jack, I suspect i do have some bad news for you, as the writer and the one with the overall vision in your head of how the game should be, I am afraid you will be also forced into the position of overall director of the game besides being the writer. Rendering went as well as you hoped?
 

Johan Smitt

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Got an error at the start of the epilogue, says that the file 'prologue/001journal1.png' couldn't be found. Downloaded from the mega link

Going to try a different link to see if I get the same error, if it's something on my end though, then please forgive my ignorance, kinda new to these games

EDIT: Found the problem, I only downloaded the update patch :eek:
Works fine now that I've downloaded the base game and patched it
 

Wyrme

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Got an error at the start of the epilogue, says that the file 'prologue/001journal1.png' couldn't be found. Downloaded from the mega link

Going to try a different link to see if I get the same error, if it's something on my end though, then please forgive my ignorance, kinda new to these games

EDIT: Found the problem, I only downloaded the update patch :eek:
Works fine now that I've downloaded the base game and patched it
Glad ya got it figured. Not all have done so. Hope you enjoy the adventures!
 

DA22

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yes choose all options to go further with her and then when get in background story part select first all the time until had all options of story background.
 

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Well Jack, I suspect i do have some bad news for you, as the writer and the one with the overall vision in your head of how the game should be, I am afraid you will be also forced into the position of overall director of the game besides being the writer. Rendering went as well as you hoped?
Oh yeah, certainly know this to be true, for sure... but directing a team of people is a whole heck of a lot easier, and far less time consuming, than doing everything yourself is.

While the art for Wicked Choices: Book Two would be different from the format that Book One is being done, @Palanto Games and I would want the artist to come on board early enough during our work on Book One, to start doing the conversions of the characters to try to keep them as unique as they are and get a jump on the production cycle.

For myself, I would just do it as I had to do it while working in the comic book industry, do panel break downs with the script for the artist... it isn't that much different than writing a novel in some regards, just less description than a novel and a little more description than what I do now... and I can normally write between 5,000-10,000 words a week when I am not distracted.

God, it is the creation of locations, sets, scenes, dressing the characters, posing them, setting camera angles and rendering that takes so much time in the creation process... if I was to do Wicked Choices as a monthly novel only, I could pump out two to three chapters a month (we could have a 400+ page book in one year, like I did with Ebon Knights)... it is the artwork and rendering that bogs everything down.

As for rendering April's release, April is done and has been sent out to Palanto to begin to program and starting this morning, will be starting May's release!! :D

I want May's release to be or nearly "double" in size, with plenty of choices for Players to make and choose from... and depending on the choices WILL DEFINATELY change some of the outcome to the main story... so people better choose wisely in their decisions... but Chapter 4 will finally be done and we can finally get to Chapter 5 which will have the MC and Syrina (if choices are correctly made) will "Power Up" for the first time. ;)
 

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Got an error at the start of the epilogue, says that the file 'prologue/001journal1.png' couldn't be found. Downloaded from the mega link

Going to try a different link to see if I get the same error, if it's something on my end though, then please forgive my ignorance, kinda new to these games

EDIT: Found the problem, I only downloaded the update patch :eek:
Works fine now that I've downloaded the base game and patched it
Glad to hear that you got it to work, @Johan Smitt and thank you for giving our game a try! :)
 

ASLPro3D

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Can someone help me on ch 3. I cant select the option to check on daughter.
As @Wyrme and @DA22 have thankfully pointed out, it requires a level of depravity on your part to unlock that choice... if you need help, there is a walkthrough also posted on the OP to help you if you want to unlock other areas or increase your points in another play-through.

Thank you for giving our game a try @kdd1212 and hope that you are enjoying it!
 
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