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Tobias 1099~4Y
I like Steven Universe a lot! It's been one of the pieces of media I've most admired since it first came out, and it's one of few series I've watched more than once. There's a lot about it that continues to inspire me, and I watched the film after trudging through the Marvel ones back to back earlier this year, and found it far more satisfying than all of them combined.

I've been wanting to make something episodic for years. I first envisioned it as a Star-Trek-like thing, where the setting was a spacecraft with a consistent crew who visited new worlds each episode, as that's an interesting way to explore very different situations while keeping a regular cast (plus I like aliens). Later, Taming Dreams was planned to be told in chapters released about a month apart, and it seemed a good idea at the time.

I'm unsure though - based on those experiences - whether making a serialised game would be a good idea, at least for me. The biggest issue would be gameplay, ensuring the player's adequately powerful - but not too much - for each episode, while also keeping things fresh somehow. I get the feeling that any repetitive gameplay mechanics like battles (or some equivalent) would feel like irritating, unnecessary obstacles after the first two or three episodes, but I wonder.

I don't think I'll do that with Belief though just because at the moment I'm interested in actually finishing something rather than starting a series that ends up incomplete again!
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