User blog comment:Tyberzannisultra/I need your opinion!/@comment-5239282-20140413000401/@comment-24040907-20140413191944

That is quite an interesting philosophical point of view you have there. It is such a shame when people live life in fear of God, and they're too afraid to do anything because they think they'll be damned. I wish those people could realize that they're only human, and that they're going to make mistakes, because it's the only way they're going to learn. Hey, maybe that could be a moral in the story!

Anyway, in The Gamemakers, I don't want to be flat out preachy. I'm sure people will understand that the Gamemakers are supposed to be divine deities. However, I wanted the twist ending to be the reveal of "the A.I. has become self aware and has started worshipping us, calling us God". That's the shock I want to deliver to the reader, the fact that the very basis of all religions is based off the Gamemakers. I don't think the story will be very creepy, but the amount of vagueness I want to convey should entice questions out of the reader, keeping them guessing.

I once read a short story called The Egg. It was a theory about the universe and about God. This theory, while I won't spoil it here, was so mind-bafflingly astounding that it at first shook my faith to pieces, then rebuilt it ten times stronger. Truly it was an eye opening experience. I'm sure I cannot deliver the same boggling reveal in my story, but I would like to try to come close. I'll take your advice, no loopholes ; ) and Ultimate Oblivion or Hellfire CAN be related to technology. Hell could be deletion, or virus corruption, or even a file wipe destroying the video game and the AI altogether! There are so many possibilities for this story to be unique and outstanding. Thank you for bringing them to my mind.

So you play RPGs? Just a side-note, do you play Skyrim? I only ask because I just started my Bethesda marathon : )

In conclusion, thank you for the reply. I'm also looking foward to hearing that idea of yours.

- Tyber