Well, I've recently started the actual development of the game Stand, which I started making with OHR about two and a half years ago. Before now I never was able to make a sidescrolling engine, so I gave up on it. But that's changed, thanks to help from many people here, especially TMC, who went out of his way to help me figure stuff out a lot, and I really appreciate it. In fact, the time you put into helping me is enough motivation for me to finish this game and make it good, so that time you spent wasn't wasted.
Anyway, enough gushing. Sorry, but I'm just really excited about this game.
Stand stars the character Ivan, a miner in the small village of Nordham. He lives alone, for his wife was lost years ago to a common illness, and his family has all either passed away or left the country. Ivan is skilled however, and looked up to by many. If anyone could navigate a mine, Ivan could.
However this all changed on the night of a powerful storm. Ivan wakes to discover that miners have been trapped by a cave-in while trying to retrieve equipment from the mine. Everyone trusts Ivan to save them, so he comes to the rescue. The only way to the trapped miners is through an untraveled mineshaft, full of darkness and lurking creatures.
In the shaft, however, Ivan discovers something besides the trapped miners. He can't quite explain what the room was that he stumbled into, and he can't explain the voice he heard, and the sights he saw. Something is living inside the mountain of Nordham village; something bitter; something with a grudge. It's up to Ivan to find out whatever it is. Perhaps it's a monster, or a beast. Or perhaps it is Ivan himself.
My pronouns are they/them
Ps. I love my wife