Game Info: Single Player

Faeguard is a Single-player Interactive Fiction Role Playing Game, or SIFRPG. Horrible acronym aside, the choice to create a single-player experience as opposed to a multiplayer one is a matter of personal preference. I do not enjoy multiplayer games. MMORPG's seem like a farce to me. We know games are, at the root, systems. The best games supplant the reality of system with the fantasy of an alternate reality. Yeah - wierd sentence, but it's true. Single-player games are more effective at this, because you don't have other humans forcing their viewpoint on you. We all enjoy a little role play and a little system mixed together. We just enjoy these two complementary creatures at varying levels. I like my levels, I don't neccesarily like someone else's levels. Communication within multiplayer games indirectly forces those involved to experience one another's levels. Single-player games allow you to indulge yourself, and at no one's expense but yours. In a multiplayer game the expense may be someone else's experience.

OK, that boring crap aside, Faeguard is single-player.

You are a Fae thrust into the world of Man, sent on a mission of supreme importance, stripped of your Faedom, lost at sea in a dark world of cities, dirt, progress, politics, war, pestilence, acts of cowardice and bravery, good and evil. Your charge? Find and subsume the great power that is rising. What is the great power? Is it good or evil? Who knows. That is for you to find out. Off you go. Don't forget your credit card.

Now see how those last two sentences, indulgent little snakes, pull down the fantastical artifice of the entire paragraph? That's a multiplayer game. Fortunately, this blog post is single-player, and I alone control the level of experience. In fact, it ends now.