My thought is that someone at Bungie may have been a "Covenant" fan. There are other similarities in the backstory and the fact that in each case the foe still exists and now has to be defeated for good in the present time. Before doing so, they sent the people they could out of the land and set up 7 Wards to reteach people when they eventually Reclaimed the Land, so that their knowledge wouldn't be lost. Rather than be defeated, they enacted the Ritual of Desecration and basically scorched the Land in the hope of killing both their foe and themselves in the process. Yet, in the end they were unable to stop their ultimate foe. In these "Covenant" books, the ancient Lords of the Land were wise and powerful beyond the measure of the current lords (like Forerunner vs modern humans).
This idea is based on the similarity between the backstory of the Forerunners igniting the Halo rings to try to destroy an unstoppable foe (and themselves with it) and the similar backstory in the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. I remembered back to when I did the assignment and I ended up making an RTS game (which got me an A+ all round) however I also wanted to make an FPS game, more specifically the first level of halo CEĪnd so after a month and a halfish of work this is what I have to show to you guys, obviously alot more to go, sounds, lighting especially ect and the whole 2nd floor.I wonder if the name may be a subtle nod to "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant", by Stephen R Donaldson. So i decided I wanted to challenge myself and make this game as if it were my assignment. the rules were Game maker 8.1, no extensions and no Dll's vanilla game maker. I was looking through some old school assignment task sheets when I saw the game maker assignment we were once given in grade 9. I messed around with GM's 3D functions and thought of an idea for a game to make. the past month has been chaotic, I injured my knee doing martial arts and had to take some time off so i thought, why not mess around with game maker again. Ive been a lurker on the game maker community for many many years, Game maker started my programming career and over the years ive made quite a few games in game maker however most have been lost over the years.
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