{"id":2189,"date":"2024-10-13T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genxtralife.com\/heropath\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:37:22","slug":"traversing-from-heropath-to-mythway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/traversing-from-heropath-to-mythway\/","title":{"rendered":"Traversing from Heropath to Mythway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After three years of work, story building, and analysis, I have decided that I need to take an indefinite break from the Heropath design concept I have. I simply do not have the coding chops<\/a> to create the meta game that I envision would provide the connectivity between games types. Heropath is now considered to be in a stalled, not shuttered, state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to change direction and so now will create a new ‘prequel’ game that will provide a story backdrop for Heropath. This will allow me keep the work I’ve done and also play with the pre-Pulp era of the late 1800s that has fascinated me. The name of this game will be called Mythway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mythway game concept will be a Visual Novel<\/a> with characters, plot, and setting that does a different take in terms of game progression. Instead of levelling up one’s character, you level up the Mythway Engine, a prototypical steampunk computer. I’d like to invoke a feeling of accomplishment in the player as they traverse what I hope to be a fascinating story and world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helping reinforce this decision is Chris Zuchowski from howtomarketagame.com<\/a> having said in one of his great videos<\/a> that a launch game should not be one’s magnum opus. He said to pick a game genre that is doable but has the potential to build on. I’m not content with just creating a simple game for myself. I want to create a game that has a story that touches on myth, imagination, and exploration of the philosophy of play. But because of my limited coding and design skills, I need to find a genre of game that I can implement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of a simpler prequel<\/a> is reinforced by the The Hobbit<\/a>, starting out as a more whimsical fairy tale for adults than what followed in The Lord of the Rings. It was a stand alone story that provided a great backdrop to the main saga. I am hoping Mythway will be that for Heropath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heropath.com will remain the website for news and development logs for the Mythway game<\/a> since they share the same world setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After three years of work, story building, and analysis, I have decided that I need to take an indefinite break from the Heropath design concept I have. I simply do not have the coding chops to create the meta game that I envision would provide the connectivity between games types. Heropath is now considered to … Continue reading “Traversing from Heropath to Mythway”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[18,40,39,11,35],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dev-diary","category-news","tag-game-development","tag-heropath-dev-log","tag-mythway-dev-log","tag-roots","tag-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}