Welcome back! Previously I was hard at work on a portfolio branding provision that I referred to as Zero Break Game Design, whereby I had previously worked on projects across a small number of game jams, consulted on a project for another developer and was also developing my own retro-style roleplay adventure. Sadly, due to a multitude of circumstances (some of them from outside influence) I had to dismantle that prior effort and step away from involvement with video game development...
Until now.
Today I announce that I'm back to work on game development projects, this time under the shorter name of Zero Break Games - same goals, just a slight bit of difference (and a shorter overall name structure). With this announcement I am also revisiting the project that was at the center of the hasty decision that led to the prior effort's collapse, but with a brand-new overall goal for what I intend to do in terms of character and story. That renewed effort, Project Able Heroes, picks up where I left off with a concept previously titled Advent Heroes and recasts the structure of the plot and characters around the new mission of Zero Break Games - to build on classic video game mechanics with a modern touch in a way that builds awareness of the everyday issues arising from the prospect of biological limitations, perspectives and challenges, and to explore the many ways in which current provisions and ongoing research can better the lives of people who deal with these circumstances on an ongoing basis. In that respect, Project Able Heroes will center around characters defined as much by their destiny as they are by their mental and physical limitations and other circumstances - some mitigated through innovative ideas built around actual forms of technological research, others accounted for in how the characters both approach and react to their situations - all under the lens of either physical or mental disorders (or a combination of both).
I hope to share more about both Project Able Heroes and the overall renewed effort as time goes on, but hopefully this reintroduction will suffice for now. Please note that some elements of the online presence of Zero Break Games (most particularly in terms of its social media pages) may still display assets and images associated with the original branding from the prior efforts, but these will be gradually updated as time goes on. I promise many more great things to come as I get back into gear with my game development projects, but for now I leave you with a quick before and after of one of the character ideas that I plan to write my updated game around:
