To make a short story long, about 7 or 8 years ago, I started developing what is known today as Godiva:Alpha as a Pen&Paper RPG, since my parents wouldn't let my brother and I play AD&D because it's "satanic" (*cough*). I borrowed elements from a ton of RPG's including AD&D, Diablo, FF, and BoF; as well as some elements from the DragonLance book series which my mom got me hooked on for about a year. I wrote up all the pages of info and drew all the maps on the only computer I had, an Apple IIGS. For those unfamiliar with pre-mac Apple computers, this was the best of them. Ran at a whole 8MHz, with 1MB of RAM (after being upgraded) and absolutely no CD-ROM or hard drive. It was a color screen though Razz . The game was a hit with not only a few of my friends, but even my parents played a few games! Satan works in mysterious ways eh? However, there were problems. Pen&Paper games take a long time to play, partially because of die rolling and calculating hit points, etc. Obviously computer RPG's don't have this disadvantage, so I started programming die programs, and eventually battle systems in AppleSoft BASIC (much like QBasic). Roughly 2 years later I got my first IBM compatible PC, a 25Mhz Intel 486-SX comp with 8MB's of RAM and a 540MB hard drive for $250. A few months into paying the family friend (about $75 worth) I got a Pentium 100MHz, 24MB RAM, 800MB hard drive for absolutely free; and I basically told the person that sold me the other comp that she wasn't getting another penny. A friend of mine had a much better computer, as well as the internet, and he found a program called "Adventure Creation Kit". It was a DOS program that let you create your own RPG's. Obviously I wasted no time in starting the PC port of Godiva. A few months later he handed me a couple floppys that contained a program he found that ran in Windows. The RPGToolkit, probably v2.01. Now anyone that lives in the US....and maybe even outside the US, has probably recieved no less than 100 or so AOL CD's in the mail for free internet time, right? This was my ticket to freedom, and with my 14.4, and eventually 56.6k modem I logged onto the internet, and to a little black and red Xoom site, home of Awesome Computing, and the RPGToolkit. By this time 2.02 was out, and I downloaded it. Not long after I visited the forums, and joined a community of roughly 10 people, of which....only one remains active (aside from myself). Cookie to the person who can guess who Very Happy .
