Glad to see a fellow new member joining in! I decided to start right away to help encourage myself to really follow through with this. I wish you luck in your creation of a story game!

Although I just joined yesterday, I want to participate in this. I'll have a lot of studying and research to do if I want to get my first game completed by August 1st though. I can't guarentee what the end result will be like, but it should be fun.