A new comic is in the works.

keeping busy I see....

@Kendo 2 Why don't you make a game or a VN of some kind with character stats, choices etc.? You can already create the visuals and I can help you with the coding, in fact, we all can participate in the development. 

37 minutes ago, bjornk said:

@Kendo 2 Why don't you make a game or a VN of some kind with character stats, choices etc.? You can already create the visuals and I can help you with the coding, in fact, we all can participate in the development. 

I've looked at 'rpg makers' and the licensing is a joke.   You make a game and 'We own it, you don't' or 'this doesn't fit with our SJW standards so you can't release it under our flag', etc.  Even something like a toddler-level 2d scrolling jumper requires approval from some Millennial Communist somewhere.  It's not worth the effort, and that's intentional on their part.

7 minutes ago, Kendo 2 said:

I've looked at 'rpg makers' and the licensing is a joke.   You make a game and 'We own it, you don't' or 'this doesn't fit with our SJW standards so you can't release it under our flag', etc.  Even something like a toddler-level 2d scrolling jumper requires approval from some Millennial Communist somewhere.  It's not worth the effort, and that's intentional on their part.

Fuck that. You can make a QSP (page in Russian) game, which wouldn't require licensing and coding is simple and similar to basic HTML. People who want to play it would need to download QSP Player. Or Ren'Py, which doesn't require licensing either, although it supports Python language which I'm not very familiar with. Ren'Py games are pretty popular at F95.

Did we have different kinds of games in mind? I was mainly thinking of a game with static images and/or videos rather than one with real-time animations. If you wanna know what kinds of games can be made with Ren'Py, you can check out the most popular ones on F95, most of them are just visual novels, but a few of them have actual game play. For instance, this one below, has a fantasy setting with orcs and elves, has items (different weapons and armor), skills, stats, combat, a branching story line, based on character's choices, a world map with different locations.

https://f95zone.to/threads/kingdom-of-deception-v0-11-5-hreinn-games.2733/

There's also a list of RenPy games on the official page:

Simulations: https://games.renpy.org/category/sim
RPGs: https://games.renpy.org/category/rpg

Forgot to mention, there's also Twine/Sugarcube for creating HTML based VNs and games. Well, VNs mostly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twine_(software)

https://opensource.com/article/18/2/twine-gaming

Pretty sure there are more open source game dev kits that doesn't require licensing if you want something to create an actual 2d/3d game with animations and stuff.

Sort of like this?

I was thinking Bjornk was saying 'Let's make a 3d video game' and I was NAH I'm good.

Making a flash-type game wouldn't be that hard but am I willing to devote time I don't have?  Nope.

I was thinking of a simple "interactive comic" type of thing in which a few branching paths lead the character to different scenes based on the choices made as well as the stats/skills.

It would naturally require slightly more effort than putting together a comic, but at least that effort wouldn't go to waste as the scenes can be reused and/or extended with new stuff to add more paths, which you can use to do different sort of "playthroughs", but anyways, it's just an idea.