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       Theillusiveman: "Hello, is this thing on? Oh!" *clears throat* "...............................um" *looks at cards in his hand*"........um............. " *trying to read off cards* "Greetings everyone...... I'm working on a.... new story game, and it's based strongly off a game series you all probably played, seen, or heard of called Command and Conquer, if you don't know, I'm not going to spoil it for you, I'll have the information you'll need to know in the storygame.....  or you could just look it up online or something.... but my story game is going to be about a character who wasn't actually in the game series itself but may or may not play key roles in the main parts of the game series itself (without breaking the cannon of the game series) depending on your choices. My first one is going to be Tiberian Dawn followed by a prequel like in the actual game series itself showing the events that lead to storygame. Actually I'm trying to get Tiberian Dawn over with so i can get to the prequel since i'm a BIG fan of WWII (No worries, I'm still not going to rush). So expect Tiberian Dawn to be published by 2020. I wanted to know if anyone had any tips regarding whether I should do this storygame or not. If anyone has any thoughts, ideas, tips, concerns, please feel free to express them to me."

 

       EVA: "Ending Transmission."

I don't think I am following. You want to get the first story over, so you can write the prequel? But you don't expect to finish the initial story until 2019 or 2020? Maybe you should just start from the beginning, especially if that's the story you want to write more.

Ooooooooh I loved command and conquer, just played 3 and lanes wrath though, red alert 2 If you include those games, would love a game on that

Wow. You plan on making a storygame in 5 years. That's a commitment I am sure you will not got through with. You will get bored of the game and probably quit and never do it. The reason I say this is that you said you are ready to get the first storygame out of the way to do a prequel FIVE YEARS FROM NOW?!

But don't worry! Persevere. Try to do your best on the story. Maybe shorten it just a tad, like to where you've finished it in a year or something. Don't let me hold you back.

       EVA: "Incoming Transmission... please stand by."

       Theillusiveman: "I was exaggerating, it will be done much sooner, i'm just saying that it will be done BY 2015. I said that because i probably won't be able to write much of the storygame itself since i will have to play the game series again (My memory is a little fuzzy on the first two Tiberium games) starting with the very first C&C, and research all the lore in the C&C Tiberium series, to make sure that my storygame stays cannon. To top it off, I'll also have to Play the first game C&C Red Alert series since the Russian campaign is the prequel to the entire Tiberian series in order to provide good detail in why things are happening the way they are."

       EVA: "Transmission ended."