Uni: The Game

As a Level Six Philosopher in a Level Ten Philosophy class (Immanuel Kant was a real pissant..)
I realized how much like a Role Playing Game my life was.

So much so, in fact, that I decided to make an RPG about it. For those of you keeping track at home, that’s 7 poems, 2 plays, 1 screenplay, 1 sitcom, about 92 viewspapers, and soon an RPG under my belt. Let me give you the outline:

You start off with a choice of three characters. They all have different skills (reason, physical, creativity) and so are all adept to various majors. You choose your character and begin playing. This choice determines the plot of the game and not the playing, as the other two immediately join your team as ‘friends.’

The object of the game can be to overthrow the evil dean (the physical player), to find a purpose to your life and create something truly original (the creative character), or to save the world.

As you go through the game, you can change your major as many times as you want. Different majors have different skills attributed to them, obviously, so you can become the type of character you want to become.

It’s a strategy game, so as you make more and more friends (there’ll be a Fraternity minigame where you gain 30 friends and 3000 enemies in one fell pledge), you’ll have to fight bigger and worse enemies.

The enemies, by the way, can be term papers, presentations, parking nazi, or the Freshmen Fifteen. There are various ways to beat the enemies that only some majors can do. For instance, if you develop your Bullshitting skill with your English major, you can breeze through a term paper, but you may be caught up with presentations if you didn’t develop your Method Acting or Improving skills with your Drama major.

The truly tough bad guys (Deans, Final Exams, and Police Captains) would require a combination of different assaults to take down (Rhetoric, Strength, Charisma, etc.).

At the end, you can get degrees in any amount of subjects (including Master’s and Doctorates, for the die-hard players), and use the various skills to overcome the enemies.

I’m still working out the kinks, but this promises to be an awesome game.

My roommate thinks I’m nuts for this and that this is all an offshoot of my finishing Shining Force and not having anything to devote my time to anymore. I think he’s just jealous that I’m going to do for so many people what Shining Force did to me.

As a Level Six Philosopher in a Level Ten Philosophy class (Immanuel Kant was a real pissant..) I realized how much like a Role Playing Game my life was. So much so, in fact, that I decided to make an RPG about it. For those of you keeping track at home, that’s 7 poems, 2…