There can also be lots of different endings because the player can influence the day in such a way that the outcome changes," Pearce said.ĭue to a variety of legal and logistical reasons, the story and the setting had to drastically shift from its mod origins. "The time loop essentially created a lot of player agency, because they have as many chances as they need to figure out what went wrong.
It's up to the main character (who can adopt of one a few "personas" including a mercenary with a loaded gun, or a knowledgeable historian) to figure out who breaks the Golden Rule at the end of the day and prevent it, and keep using the time loop to learn about the inhabitants and help them along the way.
They quickly learn that the city's demise is brought about by breaking the Golden Rule - if even one person commits a sin, everyone else turns into golden statues and effectively dies. But when encountering some ancient ruins, he finds himself transported back to when inhabitants of ancient Rome - gladiators, senators, priestesses, merchants, and immigrants - walked the city. In The Forgotten City, our protagonist wakes up by the river Tibet in modern times. "And I had the idea to implement this time loop, since in the story the city gets destroyed, so that's how the idea was born." "I'd say of those 1700 hours, I spent about half of those banging my head against the wall, just trying to solve those issues on my own," Pearce said. To his knowledge, no one had crafted time travel or a resetting timeline before in the scripting tools he was using.
At first, he toyed with creating an ancient city, then he figured to add something unusual: time travel. Pearce gritted his teeth and learned how to code along the way, solo. While working his day job, Pearce committed about 11 hours a week to his Skyrim mod, The Forgotten City, the first mod to win a Writer's Guild award. Thanks to its location in Melbourne, Modern Storyteller also benefited from a Film Victoria Grant provided by the Australian government for fulfilling specific requirements: having a project with certain commercial appeal, advancing diversity and inclusion either through the team or the game itself, and accessibility.įrom fantasy mods to houses of ancient Roman godsġ700 hours.
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