By

Brandon Franks

The Journey of Redemption

The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design• The best $20 I’ve spent on my education…

ScreenwritingCharacter and plot developmentBackstory and world developmentOverarching story• Freytag’s pyramid• Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Denouement

Music

Video Game Design

Judeo-Christian• Angels• Fallen angels• Demons• Nephilim• Antichrist• Apocalypse

Greek• Gods and demigods• Prometheus• Adamantine

Mythology

Ernst Käsemann’s dictum: “apocalyptic was the mother of all Christian theology.”St. Augustine and the reality of “evil”The Fall from Heaven• Conflicting views: Faithful vs. Fallen / Jedi vs. Sith

Theology

Assassin’s Creed I - IIIDarksiders I & IIDragon Age I - IIInfamous I & IIMass Effect I - IIIStar Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I, II, and The Old Republic

Comparative Games

Left Behind • God help us…

The Matrix and Star Wars• Contemporary apocalyptic films

Supernatural• Merging theological and secular apocalyptic genres

Comparative Films

The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama• Lord Raglan

Book of DanielBook of RevelationGenesis, Ezekiel, and Isaiah• Cherubim, chapter one• Seraphim, chapter six

Darth Plagueis• “More, that they should by all rights allow me to step not merely past

them but on them to get where I needed to be, because the Sith are their salvation, their only real hope. In that we will ultimately improve the lives of their descendants, they owe us every courtesy, every sacrifice, nothing short of their very lives.”

Revan• The bridge between the light side and the dark side.

Literature

RedemptionChapter One…