Entropy City: Making a Wargame

So the Police force in the earliest days of the game started as a simple idea, ironically an idea that many years ago I was told would never work. That idea was simple, what is randomly the police interfered in the gang war. At the time I thought it was a really clever idea but Id never done this before so I listened to my friends. A few years later Frostgrave happened and Id never been happier to discover I was right to think the idea had merit.

Truth be told it didnt take me long to realise that there would likely be poeple that would rather play as the law as opposed to a gang regardless of the background of the gang in question, shades of grey is all well and good but sometimes people just want to play the “good guys”.

It wasnt until this project re-started that the true fleshing out start with the RFPD, hell at that point the city didn’t even have its true name yet. Before I could realistically make a true faction out of a simple idea I had to work out what on earth to bring a city into the state needed for the game in my head to exist. When the assasination took place the chief of police made it his personal mission to see the gang responsible saw justice but there was one problem, Hades claimed it wasnt them and fought back this is ultimately what led to the fall of the city.

Truth be told the RFPD today is nothing of what it once was and that fact of is those that claim superiority within the forces now were mostly juniors at the time and not all of those that joined since are as clean as they make out to be. The idea behind this is allowing players to theme their forces around their own personal idea’s. Maybe they want to play the true heroes or maybe theyd rather play some crooked cops, either way the city is big enough to allow it.

I’m not going to lie, although all of the logos have been intended as placeholder for now theres none of them I hated more that the original version of the RFPD logo. I’ve mentioned before that Im not an artist and as much as I try to sound playful I actual mean it, its never been a strength of mine to draw, painting I can do but not draw its just not a skill that that I’ve ever had. And thats where this rough idea came from, it was me tracing over something and it didnt matter because it was temporary. That was atleast 12 months ago and I dont think this change could have gone any better… Its still placeholder but to me atleast this is probably the visual update I am the most proud of and the one I consider the biggest improvement overall.