Dante's Divine Comedy (a.k.a. Dante's Inferno)

[EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy)]

Dante's Divine Comedy is finished and ready for download!

The free demo goes as far as the first two circles of Hell, and the complete game includes all of Hell, plus Purgatory, plus Paradise. Unlike the EA games version that gives up after the first third of the poem.



The web site  has a couple of teaser videos plus about a hundred screenshots and more stuff. If you like the demo and buy the full game then you also get Les Miserables free, plus a discount code to get the next game free as well (Genesis of the Gods, based on Hesiod's Theogony). All my games join together to make an ever expanding game world full of classic stories. In a few years it will be the world's largest adventure game - it's already the largest in terms of ambition and geography.

Enjoy!

[Galen]

Hmm. The spirit virgil has seen the leopard but refuses to tell Dante that (he says he hasn't seen any animals). Have I glitched the game or am I just doing it wrong? Either way I think it should be altered in subsequent versions as it makes no sense.

[Calin Leafshade]

I was going to make a divine comedy game.. kinda glad i didn't since this would've blown me out of the water.

[EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy)]

Hmm. The spirit virgil has seen the leopard but refuses to tell Dante that (he says he hasn't seen any animals). Have I glitched the game or am I just doing it wrong? Either way I think it should be altered in subsequent versions as it makes no sense.

Thanks for pointing that out, I'll have to have a look at the wording. If Dante says 'have you seen a leopard' and Virgil says no, that would be a glitch. But if Virgil simply doesn't mention it, that's how it should be. Why should he say everything to a stranger? To Virgil, the leopard is just one more weird thing ina day full of weird things. No more weird than discovering you're dead and have been transported through time.  It's only Dante who recognizes the Biblical symbolism.

[EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy)]

I was going to make a divine comedy game.

You still could! My version is not the traditional view. I mean, it's very close to the poem in that the right things happen and in the right order, but I haven't gone for the traditional approach: blood and violence and absolute evil. That just doesn't make sense to me. (How can spirits feel physical pain? Are noble pagans really punished whereas morally questionable Christians go to heaven? Would a loving god torture people? Was Brutus, who's only crime was to remove a dictator in order to restore democracy, really one of the most evil men who ever lived?)  My game basically looks at everything from a different perspective - the facts are the same but the interpretation is something that Dante added when he got back.

So what I'm saying is there is still room for a conventional "infinite evil and infinite pain" version of the story if someone wants to make it.