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I’m currently on build V0.02 of Titan City, which really just means I have a pretty decent opening sequence, and some areas to explore; no real content yet.

I’ve decided to change the name of the game from “Knuckles”, to “Titan City”, since that better reflects the Game World. Knuckles is still the name of the main character, but that’s just his nickname, and part of the game is helping him put together his past to find out who he really is.

Here’s the text intro that appears shortly after the opening sequence:

I’ve shared what little I have created so far with a select group of individuals, and the ones that have found time to check it out have given me really positive feedback.

The theme behind Titan City is homelessness, which is an extremely serious issue where I live, here in San Diego, CA. I learned second-hand about homelessness when I was a senior in 1994. My Dad’s best friend from Vietnam, who my little brother and I called, “Uncle Jim”, came to live in my backyard in a tent. At the time, I didn’t appreciate his situation, at all. In fact, I was resentful that he was there.

Flash-forward to today, where living in San Diego, I come across homelessness every single day. I’m sure it wouldn’t be so intense if I didn’t live downtown, but that doesn’t make it any less real.

My outlook has changed considerably since I was a teenager, and when I learned that most of the homeless in San Diego are US Military Veterans, I thought there had to be a way I can do something about this, and the character, Knuckles began to take form.

My father was an Army Veteran. He was drafted like so many, to serve our country in Vietnam. I saw how he dealt with his PTSD: Alcohol, and eventually, suicide. In this game, I hope to honor him, and so many more like him, who struggle with PTSD, every day a challenge, without an end in sight.

Setting “Titan City” in 2050AD allows me to get creative with global conflicts between now and then, and opened the door for Knuckles to become the main character:

This is a game about a Veteran, who after losing his best friend Desmond, and his own memory when an IED exploded, returned from his Deployment to discover his PTSD kept him from smoothly transitioning back into a civilian life, and he quickly found himself living on the streets, one of thousands.

Knuckles has been living on the streets for five years, and is all but lost: mind, body and soul.

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